Questions/advice restore

[96RedRunner]

You have a good one good bones, hi-milage things that may enter picture.
Throttle body $500, ABS/MC $1300, Trac module $350 specific for 01-02's.
Version of Trans specific also $4k rebuild IIRC used all of em too old.
Something to keep in mind for the budget.

 

[2000se]

2 tracks I've considered are ( as Texmax suggested )

1. Get a 4x4 and restore it
2. Keep mine and restore it

Looks like the restore costs are going to be roughly the same regardless of which track is taken.
I'd need to sale mine to offset the cost of purchasing another 4x4.

Once everything is taken into consideration, I feel I can expect a $20k bill. Maybe save $7k in labor costs if I do it all myself. (which some of I may be able to - time vs. money issue)

Interesting thought experiment. Thank you for all the advice. Now I need to figure out what I want to do.
I've been intouch with a local shop that sees a lot of 4runner (had 4 there while we're speaking). Unfortunately (actually maybe fortunately) they do not do paint/body work. Only mechanical. So this might be the direction I go. Have everything mechanical taken care of, dry ice blast the underside, coat what I can get to, call it a day. More than likely that would cut a lot of cost off instead of trying to tackle getting body off just to get to frame. Just leave it on and work around it.

 

[DownstreamYota]

2 tracks I've considered are ( as Texmax suggested )

1. Get a 4x4 and restore it
2. Keep mine and restore it

Looks like the restore costs are going to be roughly the same regardless of which track is taken.
I'd need to sale mine to offset the cost of purchasing another 4x4.

Once everything is taken into consideration, I feel I can expect a $20k bill. Maybe save $7k in labor costs if I do it all myself. (which some of I may be able to - time vs. money issue)

Interesting thought experiment. Thank you for all the advice. Now I need to figure out what I want to do.
I've been intouch with a local shop that sees a lot of 4runner (had 4 there while we're speaking). Unfortunately (actually maybe fortunately) they do not do paint/body work. Only mechanical. So this might be the direction I go. Have everything mechanical taken care of, dry ice blast the underside, coat what I can get to, call it a day. More than likely that would cut a lot of cost off instead of trying to tackle getting body off just to get to frame. Just leave it on and work around it.

That sounds good. After living in a wet muddy environment in the mountains for a while, my truck had a lot of rust taking hold on the frame. Even just wire-wheeling and painting whatever I could reach with rattle cans made a huge positive difference in how it looked

 

[96RedRunner]

2 tracks I've considered are ( as Texmax suggested )

1. Get a 4x4 and restore it
2. Keep mine and restore it

I searched for 1-2 yrs 7-8 yrs ago to find a good boned one, harder to come by now and way more dolla's.

You have switch TracOff in dash? AndyMod2.0 uses that circuit lil wire snip here there add relay.
PreRunner 4Runner OE rear locker AndyMod2.0 Gears right tires goes places.
Run what ya brung.