So I bought a ZAV

You know, for zombies and E36 M3.

Actually, the 3SGTE RAV4 project is taking me longer than I anticipated. I don't like being pressured, so now when winter comes, I won't worry about it. Or zombies.

Needs a few little things: antenna, seat tear, servicing, I'm sure, etc., but it is already set up for towing with a good hitch and a brake controller. The little RN Truck is getting a bit old for big tow jobs. With this V8, I shouldn't have to drop to 2nd (or 1st) gear and put the heater on High for mountains.

I'm seeing a theme here:

Congrats. It's like a Rover but running.

Yeah, like a Rover, but moving under it's own power.

Actually, at our car show work party, our VP showed up in a Disco. I commented, "Look a Land Rover Disco moving under its own power!" He said "It ain't easy."

That's pretty classy.

And another of my vehicles requires premium gas.

Yeah, pretty classy for about 3 challenge cars.

I like it

Nice score. I find myself looking at those 100-serieses as a potential replacement for my 4Runner more and more.

Sweet! Factory lockers? I love Land Crushers and looked pretty seriously at an fj80 (I know that's a 100) before buying my Cherokee, those things are just ridiculously ridiculously overbuilt.

I like it a lot. Challenge X 3 seems like a bargain.

How much flat black do you think it will take?

I think it has the lockers. I need to find the button. There are a lot of buttons on this thing. Found the center dif lock button. The owner's manual says there's a button to lock the rear dif. There's buttons to change the ride height, "sport" or "comfort" or inbetween suspension dampening, power or normal mode for transmission shifting and I think throttle, "start in 2nd gear", a lever for high/low range, etc.

It's a '98 with 211K on it. Drove it home from Tulsa, ~120 miles. It drives as tight as a Chevy with 30K miles on it. No funny noises/clunks, steering is tight, doesn't pull. The stereo is very nice. I would say between the 99 LS400's Lexus Premium sound and the 98 LS400's Nakamichi sound, which would put it somewhere between the best car stereo I ever heard and the best stereo I ever heard. The underside is very clean, no salt/rust damage, even though it came out of KY, OH, and KS.

I need to figger out which buttons to push to fold the 3rd row seats up. Hey, I may need to haul 8 people sometime. And their luggage. And the cars they arrived in.

Nice score. These are on my watch list as well

Nice. Are those closer to mid size truck?

In reply to Dr. Hess:

Switch should be just to the left of the steering wheel on the dash.

RossD wrote: Nice. Are those closer to mid size truck?

iirc they are 3 row suv's around the size of Bronco or Blazer iirc

Yeah, that's about right. It is a rebadged/up-optioned Landcruiser. The LX470 has the 2UZFE V8, not too much HP but gobs of torque in this year. Later years got a HP increase. There was a TRD supercharger available for it. The LX450 of the prior year has the straight 6.

I'll look for that rear dif lock switch. I had enough trouble figuring out the AC and radio on the trip home. All the buttons are different than the LS400's or Camry of the same era. There are even 2 buttons to set how high you want the antenna to go up. Ordered a replacement antenna on ebay (GRM ADVERTISER) last night. Fifteen bucks shipped.

Talk about depreciation, but unlike a Benz it still works.

MrChaos wrote:

RossD wrote: Nice. Are those closer to mid size truck?

iirc they are 3 row suv's around the size of Bronco or Blazer iirc

Bronco?

Anyway, they're bigger than a Trailblazer or pre-CUV Explorer but smaller than a Tahoe or Expedition. 3 rows, but the third row is pretty tight.

No rear dif lock button. Must have been an option.

Any 100 series gets a thumbs up from me. Congratulations!

Just to double check on that locker switch.

Yeah, that's where I looked. No gots. Just a blanking plate.

The seat heaters have a high and low setting.

Does that mean that it doesn't have a locking diff or that it gets activated in another way? More than one Toyota product from that time is a switch away from being able to selectively lock the rear differential.

Not sure. Could also have a limited slip.

FWIW, Wikipedia is asserting that the optional front and rear locking differentials went away with the J100 generation.

I believe the lx470s have a rear limited slip. The land cruiser had the rear locker in 98 & 99. From 00 both used the brakes to control wheel spin not sure if they used throttle as well. These are also on my radar.