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None whatsoever on startup in the morning, but I definitely saw some the first time I started it up. It didn't stick around or plume or anything, if I hadn't been prewarned "head gasket" I would have thought it looked like regular exhaust for where I live.

Hi there Just picked up a 3rd gen with 220,000 km on the clock. Previous owner was selling because of failing headgasket, when I went to drive it home (4 hour drive) anticipating constant overheating I was pleasantly suprised to drive it 150km before having my first overheat going up a hill...

bam. Might as well post some photos in here, so future forum people who search for this might find it. Now, for my next trick, at 390,000 km, I'm going to drive it 5500 km canada to southern mexico this winter.

the funny thing is i've been running this for months now and no stress.... did a bit of moving of the worlds ugliest couch the other day.

Here's where were at from a few days ago... ;)

giant photo, sorry...

oh.... its ON BlTCHES! The funny thing is after having no real mechanical problems with the vehicle I pushed it out and on the way back into the garage it didn't want to engage in drive. ahaha now i guess the real work begins. Still going to chop it down so its not boxed at the rear, true...

Thanks for the links, I hadn't had much luck with google image search and appreciate you helping me find those. Don't really like the bobbed look, I have a smashed rear door frame/body and I'm kind of glad I'll get to see what a flat deck will look like. cheers

So, in the spirit of getting in deeper when you're already in over your head, has anyone ever seen or helped create a bobbed 3rd gen? Right now I've got my hands on a donor vehicle that I was originally planning on stealing front clip / suspension etc. from and fixing my vehicle that was...

I'm near Vancouver BC, Canada. My first impression is that the shipping might be insane to Texas / US in general but before anything goes in the bin I'll make sure to post it up. I'm pretty sure my friend is keeping the bumper. Time to clean out the garage!

back in business soon enough!!! a buddy bought this parts vehicle for the tires... And I'm getting everything he doesn't want for a song!

I phoned my friend...who is a fireman, that counts as reporting it to the authorities right? That was in my "holy shit I've been involved in a motor vehicle accident" phase, which lasted about 3 minutes before I got into my "authorities aren't going to improve this situation" phase which I've...

Even if I was able to get a payout from ICBC, would it be greater than blue book value? Not sure how thats calculated to be honest.

Vehicle is registered where we both live, her license has this address, my license has a different address but its radically wrong as I haven't updated my address the last few moves. I thought about going to ICBC to see if they would make some sort of good faith motion for me, 16 years of...

Ok here are a few questions. 1. I assume the part marked green is what people call a 'front clip' ? 2. These yellow sections, is it possible and FEASIBLE to chop them off a donor vehicle and weld them onto mine? I was thinking bend them back to shape but the very frontward bit is completely...