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Just purchased one of the vehicles in the title with the 2uzfe, she has 160k on her. Was wondering if anyone had any random bits of advice or stories about these engines. Figured most of you run some form of toyota that I listed form 98-2011. How is yours holding up? Whats her/his mileage.
Twinjibber77I'm trying to cop a 4Runner. In my hunt I found out about the following of the GX/LX470, I had no idea about that and it's pretty impressive.
All I have to contribute here.
Hell yeah man, definitely worth your time to look into GX's then!!!!
Had a 99 taco. 3.4l. Absolutely indestructible. Ran it thru mud puddles so deep that eventually some got into the intake. Let her dry out for a few hours, poured muddy water out of the intake pipe, and she fired right up.
Was in Ak at the time so it'd routinely see -40 and it didn't bat an eye.
Took it off some sweet jumps, dropped the transmission cooler out and pissed tranny fluid for a solid 2 miles till I noticed. Bypassed the cooler by mending the hose with a clicky-pen tube, limped it 35 miles to the nearest auto parts store for fluid, and sold it 2 years later with the pen still holding all the tranny fluid in.
At night you could damn near hear it rust, about the only thing wrong with it. Loved the truck. When I moved back to Co I sold it for 1500 more than I paid.
I know you're talkin the fancy v8 trucks, but just sharin' some yota-stoke
BiffbarfHad a 99 taco. 3.4l. Absolutely indestructible. Ran it thru mud puddles so deep that eventually some got into the intake. Let her dry out for a few hours, poured muddy water out of the intake pipe, and she fired right up.
Was in Ak at the time so it'd routinely see -40 and it didn't bat an eye.
Took it off some sweet jumps, dropped the transmission cooler out and pissed tranny fluid for a solid 2 miles till I noticed. Bypassed the cooler by mending the hose with a clicky-pen tube, limped it 35 miles to the nearest auto parts store for fluid, and sold it 2 years later with the pen still holding all the tranny fluid in.
At night you could damn near hear it rust, about the only thing wrong with it. Loved the truck. When I moved back to Co I sold it for 1500 more than I paid.
I know you're talkin the fancy v8 trucks, but just sharin' some yota-stoke
Great story man! Not a v8 elitist here. Its all truck stuff at the end of the day. (I still use the word SUV but some people call it a truck). Great stories to hear. How did the dude not notice the macgyver pen fix on the tranny? Just the old, test drive and tire-kick inspection?
Suv/truck, whatevs. For what it was worth, it was a 'clean' repair. The line was long enough and held onto the cooler with those cheap clips that you clamp with pliers to spread apart. The cooler was in front of the radiator so it was super easy to access. I just shoved the pen in to stop it from pissing and it happened to be the perfect diameter. Then I just spliced the line with the pen tube and the clamps that was on it and let it dangle on the bumped so I could make sure it didn't leak. Never did. Just looked like a line looping out the bumper, could only tell it was spliced if you felt the tube inside or saw the clamps. Told the guy about it and he seem to didn't care
Lookin for another suv/camp/bum mobile. Thinking newer 3.5l 4runner. We will see.I sure do miss this beaut though.
