The Toyota Landcruiser Owners Club

[Moses]

Hiya Folks,

Looking to change from my Pajero Evolution to something a bit more suitable for expedition work where more room is required:lol: A Landcruiser Amazon Looks favourite and looking to change post Mac4x4 challenge , so Mid/late March onwards.

Would prefer a 93-96 4.2 diesel so if anyone could give me any pointers or tips on what to look out for, It would be appreciated and what sort of price would I be looking at.

Many Thanks.

trev

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[lucky]

I've just got a 93 myself and these are the areas I looked at. There are not many things that go wrong but here are the main ones.

1. General Body condition, a lot of these have quite a hard life although they are really built to take it. If it looks well cared for then there is a chance it has been.

2. Has it been used for towing, tow bar in evidence or cables for lights. Again these can take a lot of abuse but eventually the transmission will wear if used for a lot of towing. Drive it and see if the transmission whines a lot - Transfer cases and diffs can all suffer from a fair amount of whine if abused although it is not always a problem.

3. Front axle shaft seals and noise from the front CV (Birfield) joint. Not difficult to fix but relatively expensive if you need new Birfields. Front seals go and will show a lot of evidence of dirty cruddy oil and grease around the front swivels.

4. Interior - expensive to refurb leather seats if you have too and you are worried about it.

5. Check the engine for oil pressure and bottom end noises. There is talk of premature big end wear on some earlier engines but by no means all. These can be changed with the engine in situ if needed and when we are talking premature - around 100K miles is the number. If the engine has been regularly serviced should not be a problem. Check the condition and colour of the oil, black is OK, dirty looking or water in it is not a good sign. Generally however the 1HD-T engine is built like a truck engine and should go 300K plus without major work.

Apart from that, there is little you can do to break them. You will see bith Import and UK spec ones around, UK ones generally have leather heated electric seats, 8 seats etc, imports ones don't have the leather electric seats although some will have lots of other options such as Fridge in the centre console, clinometer, suspension lifts, winches etc.

It depends how much you want to spend but there is a really nice couple at Missenden Motor company http://www.missendenmotors.co.uk

I looked at one there a while a go which was really goo however it had a lift on it which made it too tall to go in our local car park.

I paid 7K for mine with 140K miles on the clock, UK spec. Imports go for a bit less generally but have lowere mileages generally although accuracy cannot always be guaranteed - a BIMTA check will make sure.
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[Moses]

Hiya Andy,

Phew Thanks for your help.

Had a look at a few already and yes, I did notice oil seepage from the front axle of one of them. It was advertised as an 4.2 VX 1993... would this still be an Amazon? Only had 5 seats.
Thanks for the web site. Need to look round a few more to get used to what I am looking at etc... Looking to spend around 7-8k maybe more.
Feel a browsing trip to A1 auctions on Southampton coming up:wink:

rgds
trev

[andy]

[Ben 77]

Hello mate,there is a garage that deals mainly in LC's over the west side of the M25,they have got loads for sale.

Web address is www.ggg.co.uk

Good luck

Ben.

[lucky]

[Moses]

Thanks for the info...

Great web sites, may pay them a visit Any more???


Thanks for the tips andy..... the 5 seater was ok but the condition didn't tie up with the mileage so I walked away.

Like I said, got to get the Macmillan challenge out of the way first but no harm in looking.

trev