ridetime4
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My name is John and I am the proud owner of my third 97 limited 4Runner this one I picked up for really cheap she was only $280 but she had some problems the guy said that she overheated and that she had her little quirks. Definitely found out there was some rigged repairs on the vehicle but it didn't stop me with the initial cause being so cheap I couldn't say no and plus with the junkyard is being so close down here I have great access to all the parts that I need.
I last 97 I went ahead and left it on Fox shocks and then old emu coils in the back and we went ahead and did limiter straps with the total upper a arm. Really really like the way these things drive off road or so comfortable to camp in and they're just the best hands down that's why I got another one.
I owned her now for about three and a half weeks and decided to pull the heads off the engine to go ahead and find out what's causing the engine to overheat along the way we found a few other little issues but nothing major just something I didn't expect to see you like a C-clamp holding the exhaust manifold flange together and three different types of spark plugs in the engine along with homemade Clips to hold on the headlight housing there was some really really weird stuff with this truck but as of today we have it sitting with the heads already been removed it's my first time doing a dual overhead cam V6 head gasket but since I'm a mechanic I don't really get too nervous about it I just jump in there. The vehicle itself is in pretty damn good condition there's no rust on it whatsoever there's some scratches some minor stuff like that but she does have a new radiator new water pump new timing belts new timing belt pulleys and a few other things to that were also replaced. One problem we have is with the rear hatch the door doesn't like to open or closed because the key is so rounded out so I had to take a tool to take apart the door to go ahead and manually flip the switch inside there that'll be one of the things that I grabbed at the junkyard tomorrow. As of right now the engine is sitting in my living room I went ahead and I painted the intake manifolds to match the valve covers that are now also flat black who did a flat black paint on the valve covers upper and lower intake manifold just because it looks really good. We're taking off the running boards and we're also removing the front bumper to do a skid plate and then we're going to go ahead and remove the two electronic seats in the car the driver in the passenger seats are completely blown out as always with 97 limited's they're always shot out when the leather seats come with them. Either way this is going to be a great project I'm heading out tomorrow to go find myself to the new heads for this thing since one of them was cracked when I took it off. I plan on doing a full transformation with this vehicle from stock unit to fully customized off-road special going to be a blast I have a couple of pictures in my old 4Runners that I found to motivate me to build this one into exactly what I want. I have a 97 that I traded for a long travel Ford Ranger about 2 years ago that was an amazing truck but now that I just sold that one I had to get back into the 4Runner Club. Me and my wife like to go camping a lot and we like to use the vehicle as our camp shelter in case that it gets too windy or something like that it's always a really good place to have to retreat to when you're in the desert in the wind starts blowing we like to go to Ocotillo and stuff like that mammoth and we want to try and find some other people to go out on the trails with round here in the San Diego area.
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I last 97 I went ahead and left it on Fox shocks and then old emu coils in the back and we went ahead and did limiter straps with the total upper a arm. Really really like the way these things drive off road or so comfortable to camp in and they're just the best hands down that's why I got another one.
I owned her now for about three and a half weeks and decided to pull the heads off the engine to go ahead and find out what's causing the engine to overheat along the way we found a few other little issues but nothing major just something I didn't expect to see you like a C-clamp holding the exhaust manifold flange together and three different types of spark plugs in the engine along with homemade Clips to hold on the headlight housing there was some really really weird stuff with this truck but as of today we have it sitting with the heads already been removed it's my first time doing a dual overhead cam V6 head gasket but since I'm a mechanic I don't really get too nervous about it I just jump in there. The vehicle itself is in pretty damn good condition there's no rust on it whatsoever there's some scratches some minor stuff like that but she does have a new radiator new water pump new timing belts new timing belt pulleys and a few other things to that were also replaced. One problem we have is with the rear hatch the door doesn't like to open or closed because the key is so rounded out so I had to take a tool to take apart the door to go ahead and manually flip the switch inside there that'll be one of the things that I grabbed at the junkyard tomorrow. As of right now the engine is sitting in my living room I went ahead and I painted the intake manifolds to match the valve covers that are now also flat black who did a flat black paint on the valve covers upper and lower intake manifold just because it looks really good. We're taking off the running boards and we're also removing the front bumper to do a skid plate and then we're going to go ahead and remove the two electronic seats in the car the driver in the passenger seats are completely blown out as always with 97 limited's they're always shot out when the leather seats come with them. Either way this is going to be a great project I'm heading out tomorrow to go find myself to the new heads for this thing since one of them was cracked when I took it off. I plan on doing a full transformation with this vehicle from stock unit to fully customized off-road special going to be a blast I have a couple of pictures in my old 4Runners that I found to motivate me to build this one into exactly what I want. I have a 97 that I traded for a long travel Ford Ranger about 2 years ago that was an amazing truck but now that I just sold that one I had to get back into the 4Runner Club. Me and my wife like to go camping a lot and we like to use the vehicle as our camp shelter in case that it gets too windy or something like that it's always a really good place to have to retreat to when you're in the desert in the wind starts blowing we like to go to Ocotillo and stuff like that mammoth and we want to try and find some other people to go out on the trails with round here in the San Diego area.
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