3rd Gen Diesel: Craigslist LA

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The toyota owners website says it's 2wd and was a V6, so the engine must be a swap and not a foreign spec factory install.
 
Why would you want to spend that much on a 4Runner with a wheezy, crappy, noisy turbodiesel? I can understand spending that money on a V8 swapped one, but the 1KZ isn't worth it for what feels like double the 0-60 time of a V6 with an 8mpg increase.
 
It's probably so cheap because it won't pass emissions. Being that it's less than 25 years old, and the motor was never sold in the USA, that kills your ability in a lot of areas to register and emission it.
 
Diesel has more poer

Myrunr2010 said:
28 mpg! That's insane! I was only getting 18 when mine was stock. Not sure I'd pay 10k for it though
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Diesel has more power per gram compared to gasoline.

That is a great truck for that price. I hope it is 4x4. Diesel has no check engine lights and all the crazy expensive things to worry about. It will run as long as you have diesel in the tank and replace the diesel filter every 10K miles. In my area, they don't do the smog, just visual inspection. I'd love that truck. Wish I had money to buy it.
 
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CA smog laws are written weird but here's my understanding (I been party to the conversion of 1st gen 4Runners in CA to OM617 diesel and it wasn't difficult).

This vehicle is a 2001. The following statement applies only if this truck is originally a US market truck with a diesel swap. If it's a eurasian/south/central american truck, all bets are off. If it's a VIN swap... good luck.

In order for the swap to be legal in CA, the engine has to be the same model year or newer than the car into which it is installed.

It also should have an EPA tag that comes with it that indicates it is a US Certified diesel but I don't know if that's a requirement.

It gets tricky around the model year 1998 because '98 and newer light duty diesels need to be smogged in CA too. So this truck would have to go before a smog ref to ensure all of the emissions components are intact, that the engine is 2001 or newer, and it will have to pass an OBD/sniffer test.

If this was a '96 or a '97 this would have been slightly easier.

Or just sell it out of state, providing it isn't a VIN swapped vehicle (it's LHD, which is good, but it also has side marker lights and decals that weren't US spec, but those are easy enough to add).

TL;DR this looks fishy.
 
The ad reminds me of something I would do If my wife made me sell my truck. Couple pictures, very vague description, and too high of a price... :laugh:
 
I met the guy once, about 5 years ago. He bought those Limited wheels from me. He hadn't had any luck getting it registered then, either.

He tried to sell it for 10k then, also.
 
I wouldn't buy that truck in a million years. I can't imagine my truck having even less power than it does with the 3.4. Seriously, with only one size up (32") on tires, and living at 6k feet above sea level, driving the truck on the highway is torture. A little headwind and it's searching for third gear. A little incline and same thing. A little added weight and it's like the engine refuses to move. And I have no added weight and strong compression.

Who cares about getting less than 20 mpg. It's a 4Runner. Just get a car or crossover. If I could afford it right now I would get a 4th gen 4.7 and not think twice about the mpgs which are even lower than the 3rd gen. And then I would supercharge it and get even worse mpgs. But at least I would be able to drive it comfortably up the mountain roads with passengers and a bunch of gear in the back.
 
Good Stuff Guys, and Gals! All great points. I'm set with my 02 Sport. I contacted him out of curiosity, and it hasn't been registered as diesel. He also says its a 3L Turbo Diesel. Hope anyone who's considering buying this is informed.
 
1985taylor1925 said:
I wouldn't buy that truck in a million years. I can't imagine my truck having even less power than it does with the 3.4. Seriously, with only one size up (32") on tires, and living at 6k feet above sea level, driving the truck on the highway is torture. A little headwind and it's searching for third gear. A little incline and same thing. A little added weight and it's like the engine refuses to move. And I have no added weight and strong compression.

Who cares about getting less than 20 mpg. It's a 4Runner. Just get a car or crossover. If I could afford it right now I would get a 4th gen 4.7 and not think twice about the mpgs which are even lower than the 3rd gen. And then I would supercharge it and get even worse mpgs. But at least I would be able to drive it comfortably up the mountain roads with passengers and a bunch of gear in the back.
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Ever driven a stock height V6 3rd gen on 225's? Surprisingly quick. I do think that even 32's with a minor lift can slow these things down, though. As much as I like the V8 in the 4th, the feel just isn't right. Might as well bump it up to the UZJ100 if I really want that V8.

With that said, any turbo diesel before the 1KD is just a nasty, filthy, noisy piece of machinery that Toyota made as a cruel prank because they knew it torment people forever since it wouldn't break down. Leave those engines for pig farm Hilux trucks.
 
I got to drive a HiLux pickup from São Paulo to Brasília and back several years ago (about 1000 miles roundtrip). It had a 3,0L Turbo (probably the same engine model). I hated that machine. Pickup was terrible until the Turbo kicked in but that was well up in RPMs and you hit the rev limiter shortly thereafter. Rev limiter was brutal. It was a little over 4K and when you hit it, it really cut power and you bled speed and had to get going again. Top speed was maybe 65 mph on a road where everybody was going 10-20 mph faster and it just couldn't keep up. You had to shift twice as often as with my gas HiLux SW4 that I was following and couldn't keep up with. My ex- had to keep slowing down to let me catch up. I never hit the the limiter on the gas truck (also 3,0L, but no Turbo).

It was cheap to fuel, though. Unlike here, Diesel fuel was subsidized in Brazil in those days. It was good off-road, too, as long as you could maintain halfway steady RPMs.

You couldn't pay me $10k to drive that on US interstates.
 
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