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My uncle has a Lexus LX450 with 250K+ miles on it (bought used with 36K). It burns some oil, but besides that it's been solid as a rock and NEVER had any problems besides the pass side fore/aft electric seat adjustment that just quit on him about a month ago. It's 100% as it left the factory down to the headlight bulbs, besides consumables.
My first daily driver was a '92 Isuzu Trooper that I beat to hell, but the transmission started to go out at around 130K when I decided to sell it. That was also a great truck, but not nearly as solid as the FJ80.
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Old Troopers lasted a long time. Pretty solid vehicles.
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Trooper? Really? My parents bought a '91 brand new... My dad swears that was the most under powered POS he has ever owned.... Thats including the Fiat he had on his note lot that had no reverse gear....
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^The second generation came out in '92, and that included a new 3.2 liter V6 engine. Prior to that they were underpowered POSs though.
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They were underpowered, yeah, but very reliable. My old man sold about a thousand of those things over the years. Never had many problems with returns or warranty work.
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How much does a 928 timing belt job cost? Must be a real POS too, huh?
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30K miles is just a service interval, usually you won't need new parts. Outside of changing the diff oil, I can't recall any of the 80's in our family having ever had it's axle/birfield serviced, all of which have north of 250K miles. They are very low maintenance. My spark plugs have over 100K miles on them, and my gas mileage is still a lot better than most 3FE's.
Nice rig, Matt. It's a lot cleaner than mine. Holler when you need parts. ![]()
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I'm betting if you really like this thing it will be for sale here in the next 30 days.
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my sister had an early trooper. tuff as nails. by the time she was through with it, there was no surface un-bondo'd. it never quit running. she rolled it!
gutless. now the FJ...LOVE THEM. i followed a black one all set up, towing some extreme expedition, offroad, tent trailer. he looked like he was "loaded for bear". it was awesome. i watched a show where some japanese extreme team, set up two of them to drive across antartica or something. they had huge balloon tires, and struts poking out front/rear to hold them up if they drove into a crevice. amazing stuff.
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A little more $$ but I like this one. (In a darker color). V-8 w/ TRD supercharger.
You guys w/ lots of miles on the 6-cylinders, how bad is your fuel mileage? City vs. long trips? I'm just thinking probably no better than this one. ![]()
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10-12 city, 14-15 highway, 250K. That is by no means average for the majority of the 3FE's, most are around 8 city, 12 highway. I put my old drive line in a new to me chassis and the mileage shot up significantly.
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I've seen you post on mud in the past under the same name as here on Pelican.
Love my '93 LC as well, had it for 5 yrs now and only have had to to do the seals in the front axle. $120 for parts and lots of time but easy. I'm surpried you went with a 3fe. The head gasket thing is way overplayed on the 1FZ-FE... and the thing has been bullet proof outside of regular maintainence. I make up for that with11 mpg, but again,... it never breaks. good luck w/ yours. I've bought sold many cars but still keep this thing.
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Nice!
Strange color combination for a LanCrew (RanCru) ... Very cheap too! Couldn't touch one over here for less than US$5k min ... Awesome beasts but horrible on gas and diesel though ![]() Something ... doesn't look right though. The body seems very narrow and is missing some of the lines that a domestic would have.
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