I picked this up about a month ago for 1500.00. The owners that I got this from realized that they couldn't drive a manual transmission so it sat for almost 2 years before I bought it about a month ago. Since they couldn't drive it to get it smogged I offered 1500.00 for it realizing the risk of buying a rig not currently smogged. So far I have replaced the cat, muffler, spark plugs, cap, rotor, changed the oil, I'm waiting on 10mm plug wires from summit racing. The O2 sensor mount on the new cat is different than the old one so I need to figure that out as well. I'm trying to make sure this thing passes smog when I go to get it done so that the DMV can complete the transfer of title. The exhaust smells a little rich so I'm pretty sure I need to do a lean drop procedure on the carburetor. I did a compression test on the 2F before I bought it and all cylinders are showing between 135-140 lbs. I think I got a good deal as long as I can get it to pass smog. I want to do a spring over axle conversion to clear 35" tires. I have seen a lot of build threads where guys have put the 4bt in these things and I thought that this would be a good candidate. I have kinda been getting tired of the 2 door 4Runner and have been looking 4 something with a little more room I considered the 90's runners and swapping in a toyota or mercedes diesel, but the landcruiser came up and I decided to go with it. I kinda want to sell my 854Runner to pay for this new build. The carpet was really bad and the rear panels were really hacked up from the previous owner trying to install speakers so I ripped the carpet out and started fabbing up some new rear panels.