1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Well, found the 2 front drains on mine. They drain water just fine so I guess it's good still.

 

Picked up this 81 today for a friend. Guy just wanted it out of his yard for FREE. Solid frame no rust perforation anywhere. It even runs with a little fuel down the carb.
81K miles.

 

That looks pretty damn cherry.

 

Some people on here swear by never changing any fluid besides the engine oil. They have north of 400k miles like this on their taco. I'm not exaggerating either.
I definitely don't recommend doing your maintenance that way, neither does Toyota. Well I guess you're really not doing any maintenance if that's what you do. Should be a crime. Poor Toyotas are too well built. People think they never have to do maintenance because it's never broken

 

Noice! That's gonna be a fun lil mini

 

You're sure the lines for the water to be carried away aren't just clogged up?

 

That's exactly how I've always done em

 

Yup, all mine are super clear. My drain rails aren't pooling anyway

 

I posted that right after I read your initial post and then I saw the conversation went that route already. After seeing the additional posts I kinda figures mine was redundant

 

The water that gets in doesn't track down those evac tubes?

 

No this part puzzled me too, near as I can tell it's running straight down the edge of the glass seal and then doing that thing water does where it moves on the underside of a surface until it drops right near the point where my headliner surround attaches

 

What do they say on ih8Mud about it?

 

All of them only complain about blocked drip rails and wind noise. Their cure all is replace the glass, unfortunately that cure doesn't work anymore cause the glass is NLA

 

One of best bodystyles of 4Runner and one of best paint combos. Is he asking about twice as much as normal? That's 22 years old. Or do those 4Runners suffer from same thing as the first gen Tacos? Where folks are willing to pay double(sometimes triple!) the value of them?

 

Gotcha.
I read your metal plate fix post, there's gotta be some way to do something with or add something to the seal where it meets and closes off against the roof. Some type of rubber seal expander?
Wipe the seal down with 'high mileage formula, seal expanding, leak stopping' motor oil
It's a joke don't get mad at me

 

On the plus side I bought a couch

 

4runner prices are all over the place. I paid $4700 for my 03 V8. Then there are these - https://tucson.craigslist.org/cto/d/tucson-runner/7062989967.html

Tempting, if I had more funds.

 

Oh my - https://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/ctd/d/columbia-jdm-rhd-usps-1994-toyota-hilux/7062833178.html

 

Niiiiiiice

 

@Kwikvette