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Stock rig with 188,xxx miles, owned since Oct. 2016. Original stock drivetrain. Located in Kent, WA, just south of Seattle. CB installed, comes with some maintenance parts. 5VZ-FE is healthy, runs, drives, shifts well, good tread on Dean Back Country SQ4 tires. Maintenance done in the last 4...

So I've done a lot of reading on here and other forums on the subject, but I'd like some specific advice about prepping the cap so I get a good seal. Background: '98 Tacoma extended cab, located in Western Washington where it's very damp. Truck's new to me, and I've never had a canopy before...

That's really helpful. Thanks! Well, luckily for me I live in sopping wet Seattle, so wet traction (and less frequently, snow traction) is exactly what I need over the winter. Good to know!

This isn't a "what tire should I buy thread" ... because I already have these. Previous owner put 'em on before selling 'em to me. So I'm wondering if anyone else is running these and what they think of them. Particularly interested in how long they last and how they do on various off-road...

Whoops. Misread the sidewalls in a photo, wasn't looking right at the truck when I wrote that. They're Les Schwab Back Country SQ-4 A/Ts, which based on what I've read are actually rebranded Deans. Which are themselves a sub-brand of Cooper. I don't know much about them. They seem newer and...

Is that the Kolpin fuel pack from Cabellas? How do you like it? Seems like a bit of an awkward shape compared to the Rotopax but it's so much cheaper. Love to hear your thoughts on it.

It took too long, but I finally found something ... and I couldn't be happier. This has been a super long and frustrating search. I eventually decided that I wasn't going to find something in the condition I wanted for what I was going to spend. Anything decent that did crop up was gone in less...

Loving your DC, man. You're making me want to ditch my split 3-spokes and fine a set of those 5-stars. More importantly, you're making me want to start hitting the forest roads near my place. Got the truck a few days ago but it's been parked at the airport while I'm on a work trip. Probably...

Actually, yes. Glad you asked. I've been hunting and there's not much out there. Missed out on a bunch of trucks cuz they sold almost instantly. So it's been a slow search, but I'm still working on it. Wanted to ask anyone still following this: drove an FJ80 yesterday, 1991 with 233k miles...

There's a 1990 4Runner I looked at a few weeks ago that's still for sale at a reasonable asking price. Just had timing belt done in the last 10k, has 190k on the clock. Manual. Was pretty clean inside and out. I liked it but I was holding out for something newer. What's needed (other than the...

Looked at two this weekend, and indeed they were filthy and had multiple issues. That's kind of depressing to me that you can't get them for anywhere close to book value. We're talking, in my area, $2-4k over book value. At least. For high mile ones. I'm starting to rethink spending more to...

You're not wrong. I'm mostly concerned about ease of lifting it. There are a ton of them around here and they are awfully low to the ground. I won't be doing any hardcore crawling, but I know I'll need more clearance than the R50 offers stock. Whereas with an Xterra, I'd be ok for a while right...

Decision Time I'm finally in Washington and have a little bit of time to look at trucks. I've seen a few things I've ruled out already, like a 1992 4Runner (was just too old and had the 3.0 was ... slow). I'm starting to think that I may want a pickup bed and a cap, so I've included Tacomas in...

Good point. Not a ton of choice in this price range, especially since I'd dead-set on a manual transmission, which limits me to that tiny percentage of people who were buying manual-trans SUVs in the early 2000s. That being said, I'm feeling pretty good about how many newer Nissans (Frontier CCs...

I believe it ... I'm from Seattle! I see you're in Colorado. Just curious, do they salt out there? Every once in a while I see something really neat on Denver Craigslist, like a Toyota Trekker or that sort of thing. Always wondered what the rust potential was for a Colorado truck.

Yeah. I'm from (near) Seattle originally, only been in Michigan for 3 years. What I considered to be "serious rust" is laughable. You should have seen my face when I was moving out here. I drove through Chicago and was just slack-jawed at all the cancerous mid-2000s American cars on the freeway...

I think that's my next step ... While I'm still out in Ann Arbor, it'll be harder because anything I'm considering has turned to swiss cheese by now. I may have to wait a month until I'm out in Seattle and have a much, much larger selection. I've spent plenty of time in older Toyota ('84 pickup...

The fan resistor is just a bad design from the factory. It worked on the two highest settings so I stopped messing with it. The heater core was entirely a Dexcool problem, and switching it over to a regular ethylene glycol coolant solved that. There was a lot more than I listed ... basically I...

Thanks. Maybe I should put the XJ back on my radar. I definitely have an affinity for Japanese trucks, and I just sold a low-mileage 2003 Blazer 2-door that had a bunch of little issues that drove me nuts. The brand new oil hoses for the remote oil filter started seeping immediately, the blower...