Currently £450 ($786)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2448420518&category=18238

Its worht many times that, i would think

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'98 FAD FrontyKC
156,000 miles
Packin ARB'd 9"(5.00)& Tornado w/ Dual Remotes;-)
-Mobi-weld 200 just about hooked up

do you know what the reserve is on the 87?? That thing looks to be in awesome shape for being 17 years old. The 94 is bid up to $9,600 usd...not a screaming deal but in the USA a fair deal. Out of all three you seen I think this 87 is by far the best deal for the money if they don't want to much. I read a bunch of owner reports on Patrols last night as I was bored and surfing. For all years from 1980-2003 19 out of 20 people highly praised their trucks. Many had been Toyota owners before buying a P-troll. The drive train in P-trolls is well known since 1980 as being totally bomber. The 87 will have C200 diffs and ARB lockers drop into those if you want a truck that will really do some off-roading.

I had a 1987 FJ60 TLC that is the main competetor for the 87 P-troll. It was a damn good truck and the Patrol should be better.....if that tells you anything.

Damn those manual boxes !
Still got 3 days left on it, but its a 3.3 diesel rather than the 2.8 petrol. Wont save anything at the gas station, but may have a bit more Stump Pulling Power .

The only way to really save money over here is to have an LPG conversion. Anything from £1200 - £2000
GBP, but LPG is half the price at the pumps of either Petrol or Diesel.
Current technology means both Petrol and Diesel engines can be converted to LPG

Yeah, it would be nice if I could use the LPG for off-road use, and the gasoline(petrol) for on-road...

Dont know the reserve Fudd -

Why not LPG off AND on road Jon ?

Because, its hard to keep track of just how much you have left. Or so it was when my friend converted his K5 Blazer over to LPG. That way, when I run out of LPG, I will know that I better be headed back home.

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Originally posted by ESSEX:
...its a 3.3 diesel rather than the 2.8 petrol. Wont save anything at the gas station, but may have a bit more Stump Pulling Power .

The only way to really save money over here is to have an LPG conversion.

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If you want to scrounge and save money on fuel, you can gather up used vegetable oil that I'm sure you can find almost anywhere there's a fast food joint or big restaurants. They pay to have the stuff taken away.

There's an outfit that sells a coversion tank, etc. that allows you to run it
(SVO- straight vegetable oil) without any processing other than some filtering you have to do before you put it in their auxillary tank.
SAme power output( or better) as diesel fuel, and it's lower sulfur( or equal to the lowsulfur diesel fuel you have over there.
YOu still run diesel, but only to get things warmed up. At that point ,you shift over to the SVO tank. Prior to shutdown, you have to switch over to diesel again. This clears the lines of the SVO which would congeal if not heated. The SVO fuel tank is heated indirectly via coolant lines that bring warm engine coolant to the tank. They've got it all figured out w/o having to pay up for "biodiesel" which is the sam e thing cleaned up and processed so that it's liquid instead of solid. The SVO tends to congeal in cold temperatures.
The company's name is Greasel http://www.greasel.com/

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'98 FAD FrontyKC
156,000 miles
Packin ARB'd 9"(5.00)& Tornado w/ Dual Remotes;-)
-Mobi-weld 200 just about hooked up

That would be funny...

<Drive Thru Window Operator> Welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order?

<Me> Yeah, fill 'er up!

<Drive Thru Window Operator> Excuse me?

Yup ,Wish it was that easy to collect and process . It's not difficult, but you need to stick to the processing criteria dealing w/ filtering it ,and such , prior to use.

You need an easy way to pump it out of the "donut shop , etc.,"and store it for processing, that makes it seamless for the restaurant and you.

If you could really make it eficient( and were a good marketer) you could run a clandestine fuel depot for you and your SVO equipped friends. Maybe even collect a fee from the restaurants you picked up oil at.
Whatever you do you must never NOT prefilter SVO before putting it in the SVO tank. NO matter how clean it looks. YOu can't depend on the engine's fuel filter to work for long under those conditions.

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'98 FAD FrontyKC
156,000 miles
Packin ARB'd 9"(5.00)& Tornado w/ Dual Remotes;-)
-Mobi-weld 200 just about hooked up

Again, bille, the UK Gov DONT MISS A TRICK. Such is their fury at taxing the common man into the ground, they have veg oil covered now.

http://www.goatindustries.co.uk/dutypayable.html

And heres some Veg guys in the UK

http://www.dieselveg.com/

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Originally posted by ESSEX:
Again, bille, the UK Gov DONT MISS A TRICK. Such is their fury at taxing the common man into the ground, they have veg oil covered now.

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Jesus...

Jeez... YOu think the taxman hangs out at the the local Fish and Chips? I wouldn't worry much if collecting just for personal use. It also sounds like double taxation and a disincentive for the expansion of the biodiesel/ SVO market>>>>, when the authorities should be doing just the opposite.

Certainly ,they are in cahoots w/ the large biodiesel refiners making sure they impose the added duty on their biocrude.

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'98 FAD FrontyKC
156,000 miles
Packin ARB'd 9"(5.00)& Tornado w/ Dual Remotes;-)
-Mobi-weld 200 is tits!( can I say that?)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bille:
Jeez... YOu think the taxman hangs out at the the local Fish and Chips?
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That is seriously amusing, and probably not far off the truth