Quick background here:
2000 limited 4runner with e-locker
223k purchased excellent condition $6500
Maintenance performed as preventative maintenance and some repair:
Full timing belt kit and water pump
New radiator
Toyota lower ball joints
Inner and outer tie rod ends
Ngk plugs and wires
New crossover exhaust gaskets
Valve cover gaskets and intake gaskets
Denso o2 sensors
Toyota tps
Cleaned mas
Seafoamed engine
Fuel filter
New 4 hole Denso fuel injectors
Power steering fluid flush, rack bushings, guide updated
Changed all gear box fluids to synthetic
New braided with sleeves brake lines
Rebuilt rear brakes, adjusted e brake
Replaced cv axle
New black carpet kit
Black digital fit weather techs
New battery
Rebuilt starter with new brushes/contacts
Upgrades:
Bilstein 6112 4runner front struts/springs
Tundra big brake upgrade from power stop with drilled/slotted rotors
Bilstein 5100 with ome springs in rear
Extended rear bump stops
Eimhart panhard drop/lower kit
E-brake bracket made for lift
Extended rear brake line
Front diff drop kit
1” wheel spacers
Mstudt extended heavy duty sway bar end links
Sway bar bushings energy suspension
2017 4runner wheels
255/75/17 duratracs sl 4 ply tires
Morimoto d2s projectors with 5k Morimoto hid’s
Satoshi grille mod
Pioneer car-play touch screen
Alpine rear flip down tv for kid movies
Pioneer 6.5” 2 ways front and rear
Rx8 leather front seats
Full color conversion to satin black interior with light gray upper half
Led bulbs in hvac and gauge cluster
In process of doing leather dye from Leatherique on all seats to black
Gray seatbelts swapped in.
Diff lock light up mod
Clock mod so green matches green led in digital hvac
Super clean, almost dent free, only a door ding here and there gets 16mpg city and 18 hwy, currently sits at 253k miles and I daily drive it 25 miles 4 days a week to work. Burns zero oil.
Here is what I need advice about: I hate how underpowered it is when I have my family of 5 in it and it’s loaded with camping gear trying to get over the mountain pass! My foot is basically floored to keep up with traffic doing 55moh/60mph, Toyota geared these horribly. It’s fine when your at say 3500rpm but then it upshifts and you lose all your power.
3 options to vote on please
Sell it and buy a v8 4th gen and start build over (I have no money left over to upgrade it cause of how much I invested in this one)
I found a 75k 2000 4runner with magnason supercharger installed for sale that was wrecked that I could buy just not sure how cheap I could get it for or how much that is worth and swap everything low mileage over with supercharger.
V8 swap mine with tundra/sequioa after mine blows up but then everything would be high mileage.
I want to put 285/70/17 ridge grapplers in it, savage off-road hybrid bumper/sliders, rear tire swing out, prinsu roof rack in the future which is going to add weight and all that will cost like 5-6k so keep that in mind when voting on option. Plan to overland some day with 2-3 people.
My boy is 12 and in 4 years I’d like to have the rig be his depending on a lot of benchmarks he would have to maintain...
I’m already upside down in value but am at a cross roads, do I dump another 8k into it over next 4 years to make it last many years to come, or cut my loses and buy something with lower mileage and newer with a v8 in it.
2000 limited 4runner with e-locker
223k purchased excellent condition $6500
Maintenance performed as preventative maintenance and some repair:
Full timing belt kit and water pump
New radiator
Toyota lower ball joints
Inner and outer tie rod ends
Ngk plugs and wires
New crossover exhaust gaskets
Valve cover gaskets and intake gaskets
Denso o2 sensors
Toyota tps
Cleaned mas
Seafoamed engine
Fuel filter
New 4 hole Denso fuel injectors
Power steering fluid flush, rack bushings, guide updated
Changed all gear box fluids to synthetic
New braided with sleeves brake lines
Rebuilt rear brakes, adjusted e brake
Replaced cv axle
New black carpet kit
Black digital fit weather techs
New battery
Rebuilt starter with new brushes/contacts
Upgrades:
Bilstein 6112 4runner front struts/springs
Tundra big brake upgrade from power stop with drilled/slotted rotors
Bilstein 5100 with ome springs in rear
Extended rear bump stops
Eimhart panhard drop/lower kit
E-brake bracket made for lift
Extended rear brake line
Front diff drop kit
1” wheel spacers
Mstudt extended heavy duty sway bar end links
Sway bar bushings energy suspension
2017 4runner wheels
255/75/17 duratracs sl 4 ply tires
Morimoto d2s projectors with 5k Morimoto hid’s
Satoshi grille mod
Pioneer car-play touch screen
Alpine rear flip down tv for kid movies
Pioneer 6.5” 2 ways front and rear
Rx8 leather front seats
Full color conversion to satin black interior with light gray upper half
Led bulbs in hvac and gauge cluster
In process of doing leather dye from Leatherique on all seats to black
Gray seatbelts swapped in.
Diff lock light up mod
Clock mod so green matches green led in digital hvac
Super clean, almost dent free, only a door ding here and there gets 16mpg city and 18 hwy, currently sits at 253k miles and I daily drive it 25 miles 4 days a week to work. Burns zero oil.
Here is what I need advice about: I hate how underpowered it is when I have my family of 5 in it and it’s loaded with camping gear trying to get over the mountain pass! My foot is basically floored to keep up with traffic doing 55moh/60mph, Toyota geared these horribly. It’s fine when your at say 3500rpm but then it upshifts and you lose all your power.
3 options to vote on please
Sell it and buy a v8 4th gen and start build over (I have no money left over to upgrade it cause of how much I invested in this one)
I found a 75k 2000 4runner with magnason supercharger installed for sale that was wrecked that I could buy just not sure how cheap I could get it for or how much that is worth and swap everything low mileage over with supercharger.
V8 swap mine with tundra/sequioa after mine blows up but then everything would be high mileage.
I want to put 285/70/17 ridge grapplers in it, savage off-road hybrid bumper/sliders, rear tire swing out, prinsu roof rack in the future which is going to add weight and all that will cost like 5-6k so keep that in mind when voting on option. Plan to overland some day with 2-3 people.
My boy is 12 and in 4 years I’d like to have the rig be his depending on a lot of benchmarks he would have to maintain...
I’m already upside down in value but am at a cross roads, do I dump another 8k into it over next 4 years to make it last many years to come, or cut my loses and buy something with lower mileage and newer with a v8 in it.
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