Bringing a new taco home, issues found

I'm going to go some extent, now that I have another truck I'm going to use what I can. But I will be selling what I dont use.

 

Well here she is, for being in the rust belt for almost 20 years she looks pretty dang good to me.

 

i forgot if you had the tan/oak or blue/gray interior?

 

Tan, do you have the 60/40 bench seats?

 

somebody kept her pretty clean!
that spot on the bottom tailgate is an area that i fight to keep clean on my truck, i need to scope it out again for rusty infection

 

I'm actually going to just trade tailgates haha, that way ill always be driving around with a piece of my 95. That and I like the older style that says "toyota" in big letters across it.

 

i have the SR5 sport buckets
blue gray interior most difficult color to find salvage parts in good condition, new are discontinued pretty much

NiCE!!!

 

any passengers should be happy now that you have an air bag for them
i recall this one girl sometime last decade that freaked out when she found my truck had no passenger air bag to protect her
she couldn't handle it and that was the end of that

 

What goods a girl that doesn't like a little danger, cmon!
I'm always sideways on icy back roads haha so a girl that cant have fun doing that I don't want in my truck anyway

 

A little more digging and more looking made me realize actually how Rusty this truck is, makes me sad, so im going to get her up and running and drive it through the winter and maybe next year until I can find a replacement from down south that is clean.

 

do you have any pics or anything?

 

I have and hate the 60/40 bench seats. Can't find a generic seat cover for 20 bucks like regular buckets or a bench smh

 

Got some Wet Okole seat covers but cant sell them for 20 bucks lol

 

I will get pictures tomorrow, the frame isn't too bad its just the underside of the cab, the runningboards and the rear wheel wells are getting pretty bad

 

was it a replacement frame or do you know?
or maybe it was mentioned already

 

I dont believe it was, the guy said he washed it religiously when he had it but it sat outside for a couple years and he said that's when it started rusting

 

Got some bad news today, my mechanic took the head off to diagnose the low compression. The idiot that changed the spark plugs must have cross threaded one of them and forced it in ruining the integrity of the threads, along with finding a burnt valve. He tried retapping the hole but there is so much slop in the threads now he is suggesting it a better idea to replace the head to resolve the low compression. The water pump was also leaking coolant so that is being replaced along with the timing belt. He found a used head that will be inspected next week, fingers crossed it passes. My bill is going to be around $2200.00, more than I wanted to have to put into it but I’m in it now so I might as well see it through.

 

Wow. Sorry to hear that man

 

Live and learn, trying to keep a good attitude about it all. Sucks though, I’ve been without wheels for 3 weeks already and with thanksgiving next week I won’t be driving for another 2 weeks.

 

I’m just hoping the suspension is sound enough to drive so I can recoup all the money I’m throwing at it right now.