Well the 4-Runner is off the road.  I was getting a horrendous vibration in the front end when I locked in the front hubs and drove over 35.  I was not willing to ruin new tires, and the CV boots looked good it meant I likely needed two new front axles.  Amazon would not ship the reasonably priced ones to me, and I hesitated to spend more money on it right now.  I really needed a truck for work.  It was a major pain in the butt to have to swap all my work stuff to a different vehicle when I find out with little notice that I need to haul things for work.

I was looking for a work truck for my dad, long story not relevant now, and stumbled across a decent truck that he hesitated on, so I scrounged up the cash and now have a new work truck.  I bought a 1992 F-250 extended cab, long bed, 7.3 IDI diesel, with a 5 speed manual, with 93,000 miles on it.  It has some issues, why dad passed on it, that I believed where mainly due to it sitting for as long as it did, but as soon as the bank account recovers some I will try to work on them.  The engine smokes, fuel, not oil or antifreeze, the guy I bought it from thought one of the injectors was sticking and claimed he replaced them all.  I thought the engine was running on 7 cylinders and wondered if a valve was sticking open.  I am running a heavy dose of Marvel Mystery Oil in both the crankcase and fuel and the smoke and funny noise from the exhaust has minimized.  The guy I bought it from had found a rebuilt head for the engine, and I may go that route after Thanksgiving if it fails to improve, one of my uncles owns the head the other guy "found".  My Uncle Tim is kind of a guru on Ford diesels as he has bought, repaired, and resold "slope trucks" for many years now.  So if all else fails I will run it up to his shop and pay him to do some of the more complicated things I don't want to do in my driveway in Nov/Dec.  I will try to get some pictures up in a dedicated thread later in the week.