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We are never going back to the days of carbs, mech fuel pumps run off the cam, and standing in the engine bay while working on the car's engine. But what can I buy new or slightly used that isn't a death trap, and can most likely be repaired at home with a decent set of hand tools and a jack if something goes wrong? No removing the front end bodywork to get to a windshield washer pump (Subaru), no jacking the engine off its mounts to get to an alternator (Mazda), no disassembling the engine bay to replace a sensor (VW). And for f**k's sake, no turbo or hybrid anything (Ford).

We are never going back to the days of carbs, mech fuel pumps run off the cam, and standing in the engine bay while working on the car's engine. But what can I buy new or slightly used that isn't a death trap, and can most likely be repaired at home with a decent set of hand tools and a jack if something goes wrong? No removing the front end bodywork to get to a windshield washer pump (Subaru), no jacking the engine off its mounts to get to an alternator (Mazda), no disassembling the engine bay to replace a sensor (VW). And for f**k's sake, no turbo or hybrid anything (Ford).

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pats for Toyota ONLY come from Japan. You will never find Toyota parts in a junkyard.

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Have you never heard of "pull your own part" junkyards? There are MILLIONS OF TOYOTAS in junkyards. THOUSANDS within 20 miles of me right now. Co- part .com, car-part .com, row 52 . com, I could go on and on.....

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side story for ya - we have a car auction mob called shannons, deals with specialist type stuff, did a training job for them once and their showroom had a bunch of interesting stuff, old racecars, but this drab olive fj40 like my old man had, thought it was odd, asked someone what it was about, dude had no idea said hed tell me later. Got back to me afterwards why it was special -

The owner had done half a 'Radar O'Reilly' and between Repco, Toyota and Gregory's maintenance manual, managed to hand build from OEM spares an FJ40 from ground up.