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KDXSR5 said:
I would be all over that sequoia you bought. Did you end up paying full asking? I plan to do something similar in CA in the future, but specifically looking for a 2wd 2005-2007 sequoia to SAS and turn into my next off-road toy.
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Ask was 9 or 9.5 and it'd been up for a while, 2big bronco found it on fb while bombing down the freeway in his bronco on portals
I asked him to offer 7k, so he sent it at 6.5 :laughing:


2wds are much more plentiful, like 5 to 1, and cleaner

Cloth seats look like new at 300k, but the leather looks like shit at 150k... but no heater iirc


Lmk when you do your SAS, that's another someday project. We looked into it here a while back, pretty clear a junkyard 4wd trans is the right move for that part of it
 
Projectjunkie said:
Ask was 9 or 9.5 and it'd been up for a while, 2big bronco found it on fb while bombing down the freeway in his bronco on portals
I asked him to offer 7k, so he sent it at 6.5 :laughing:


2wds are much more plentiful, like 5 to 1, and cleaner

Cloth seats look like new at 300k, but the leather looks like shit at 150k... but no heater iirc


Lmk when you do your SAS, that's another someday project. We looked into it here a while back, pretty clear a junkyard 4wd trans is the right move for that part of it
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It’s a bit of a someday project for me as well, but one that I think is attainable. I plan to SAS and manual convert with a Tundra manual trans and possibly t-case. Not a fully developed plan yet, but it’s getting there. I rocked an 85 pickup for years, but with an ever growing family even the 4Runners are not big enough. The 3 row sequoias seem to be a good option. I’ve also been considering tahoes, but I still have a soft spot for Toyotas that I find hard to shake.
 
KDXSR5 said:
It’s a bit of a someday project for me as well, but one that I think is attainable. I plan to SAS and manual convert with a Tundra manual trans and possibly t-case. Not a fully developed plan yet, but it’s getting there. I rocked an 85 pickup for years, but with an ever growing family even the 4Runners are not big enough. The 3 row sequoias seem to be a good option. I’ve also been considering tahoes, but I still have a soft spot for Toyotas that I find hard to shake.
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I've put 700 miles on this in the last 13 hours, climbed the grapevine, driven like an asshole, and bumped the speed limiter a few times, and averaged 15mpg
I have zero complaints with this power train, with stock size tires.
The 00-04 have 40hp less and and 4 speeds, they could maybe benefit from a manual swap, but this one has been in the right gear every time. You'd probably be happy with the auto after driving it...
 
I still miss my 04 tundra. It started to develop an exhaust leak at the manifold and I did not feel like putting in the work, so I sold it.

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I'm back home and the truck did great, need to find some taco Tuesday tacos and do some laundry

Shane showed me a great time with minimal awkward homo stares, I appreciate that:beer:

Maybe he's playing the long game :laughing:

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There's another part of this trip that I have no idea which way it's going to go

I wanted to be seated next to the cute South Korean chick I was talking to at the Tucson Airport, but wound up sitting next to a plump Guatemalan truck driver who's truck broke down in Tucson, so he was going back to sanfran for another tractor to finish his haul.

I was a little disappointed:laughing:

But we got to talking, he told me he had an 05 V6 chevy truck at his yard that somebody stole the cats off of her sell me for 400. We talk a little more, he's an owner operator, and he takes a few weeks off every December to haul the big Mexican trains of trucks to the mother land. He's showing me pictures, he shows me his parents in Guatemala, shows me what looks like an 8k sqft house there, throwing a party for 50 people, he seems to do well.

He pulls up a picture of a stack of trucks, points to a $2900 91 Toyota 4wd and tells me that he sells those for $16k in Guatemala, damn!

I'm asking him if he has to market these upon arrival, nope, he's got a wholesale buyer who takes everything.

It gets a little weirder, he asks me when I'm going to be back home, and if I have a forklift, because he'll put the Chevy on the back of the tractor he's bringing and drop it off for me... we land, exchange numbers, and then he goes off grid, no response to text, then I go to the Rubicon and no service up there. Sometime Sunday I hear back from him and we will meet Monday after I get the sequoia.

He's hard to understand, he's already sent a tractor to Tucson to get that trailer, but seems to have another one going that way.

This yard is where the central Americans build their Mexican trains

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There's mdt and hdt trucks getting cut up and engines pulled and wrecked toyotas EVERYWHERE
I later realize that I'm stepping over frame rails from scrapped heavy trucks that got cut up

He leads me to the $400 v6 chevy
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So I shake on that:laughing:

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Then offers me a couple more trucks including this decent enough 04 with a bad 6.0

I shake his hand, give him a small deposit, which I insisted he take.

I may or may not have a couple of trucks showing up Thursday morning, I have no idea:laughing:
 
Yeah, I'm not ruling any of that shit out:laughing:


Aggie is probably the closest guess. Several times in my discussions with Shane I referred to him as my future father in law. Then Shane, who's been to Guatemala informed me that Guatemala women don't get fat, they start out fat :laughing:
So maybe it'll just be a heroin smuggling chop shop partnership:homer:

Back in 2000-01 I was parting out 80s toyota 4wds, maybe I'll start that shit back up again and send them to the motherland with my new Familia
 
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