Hey guys! It’s time to let go of my runner 89 DLX. Rebuilt engine with 50k miles on it, rebuilt trans, clutch has 20k on it. Arb rear diff locker and arb compressor, 4.88 gears. Small dent in the hood and the Interior is a bit rough cracked dash but everything works. I’m just not sure what a fair price would be. What should I ask for it?
Hi everybody! I just purchased my first 4Runner yesterday (1986) and I’m stoked to start working on it. I’m curious as to if I’m missing any mounts for the front bumper or if I should be able to install one as is? Any help is heatedly appreciated thank you.
Looks like it’s the electrical attachment to a trailer (verbiage?!)
Can I just clip it out without any issues? Thank you
87 4runner
Since I couldn't include pictures with my other post, I'll add a few older pictures of my engine bay and digital dash install testing.
This has been taking me far too long to work on... I'm running a megasquirt ECU, and decided to build a digital dash to go with it. I started on this year's ago and have had a few different screens, but kept getting hung up on mounting and fitting in a way I was happy with.
Ended up switching to a screen that didn't fill the entire width, and made printed end brackets that worked great. I still need to figure out how to mount all the other boards on the back, and wire management.
And I finally wired up an octocoupler to bench test a turn signal last night, a bit of head scratching, then I finally just followed the directions and it worked 😂
Going to add a high beam indicator and 4wd as well.
Also was able to bench test a spare fuel sensor to mostly figure out how I need to wire that in, to get the ECU to work with it.
Just doing Bruce things.
Here's an article from The Verge and here's a YouTube Test Drive.
i recognize that there are some amazing things happening with EV's in Asia, and that in North America we don't get access to some of those vehicles.
I also recognize that we are an Internal Combustion Engine club and many might not be fans of EV's in general.
however, i personally am excited about the idea of a BASE EV that users can modify at their discretion, with the bare bones of a 1st gen 4runner in EV form. i WISH Toyota would bring back the 1st Gen in EV form. I really think people would buy in.
One thing I love about the 1st Gen 4Runner is how many owners focus on keeping these trucks alive instead of replacing them. Most of the talk seems to be about maintenance, restoration, suspension, gearing, and a few tasteful upgrades.
I've been wondering if those changes actually make ownership more enjoyable long term, or if keeping it close to stock is the better move.
Do mods make you more attached to your 4Runner, or do reliability and originality matter more?
For those who've owned one for years, what upgrade or maintenance item made the biggest difference?
I was driving to work the other day and my coolant belt snapped I didn’t catch it as quickly as I would liked I ended up grabbing a belt from work and installing it and drove home, but I drove a couple more days felt severe lack of power now it has this sound and dies when I rev it high it’s odd only the knock like sound happens when it’s throttled hard I replaced the crank bearings when I built the engine like five years ago I’m really hoping I don’t have to pull the whole engine. I have a spare head. Do you guys think it would be worth it just to replace the head gasket and see or pull whole engine to check rod bearings
The bearing had been grinding for a while and it recently started popping out of gear. It was finally time for me to try to rebuild it.
Hope you enjoy the lil video