What kind of oil for this beauty's first oil change?
You Can Buy This Preserved 1993 Toyota Pickup With 94 Miles
Here is a rare opportunity to own a new fifth-generation Toyota Hilux.
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It is like not doing your girlfriend or wife to save her for her next boyfriendCan't drive the thing, that's its only claim to fame. Value would plummet.
Disagree.It's a curiousity more than a collectible. It's not like a low production Buick Grand National, Corvette with certain options or exotic sports car. Maybe 100 years from now someone will think it is really special. Right now, Mecum and the owner are looking for a sucker.
I put 450,000 miles on a '88 22RE. There is lots of Nickel in that engine block. The only thing I worry about is the timing chain.What kind of oil for this beauty's first oil change?
You Can Buy This Preserved 1993 Toyota Pickup With 94 Miles
Here is a rare opportunity to own a new fifth-generation Toyota Hilux.jalopnik.com
Yes but this is a Toyota, and probably a Japanese-made one. They were touched by the Gods.Very low-mileage vehicles can be problems waiting to happen simply because they sat. I've known of clogged hydraulic lifters in seldom-used American vans and light trucks with low miles, for example. This can happen for a specialty fleet vehicle, such as used by first responders and the likes of government agencies. If the fluids were never changed in 30 years, well...
When I worked in state corrections, I drove an inmate to a hospital in a 20–year-old Dodge van that had been converted to an ambulance (but no emergency lighting). It had fewer than 2,000 miles on the odometer. The engine had lots of lifter noise.