1988 Wrecked, Rear Glass

I am new to the forum; let me know if I mess something up with my post!

On Sunday when driving home from a vacation my steering drag link ripped the threads out from the knuckle and we went off the road and flipped... Luckily my wife and I were both completely fine but the 4runner had "some" damage.
I need to get:
- New windshield (shouldn't be too hard to find based on a quick search)
- New driver's side window (found one on ebay for cheap)
- New steering components (haven't looked yet but not too worried)
- New rear glass (oh boy)

From some searching I think the part number I need is 68105-89103 (out of stock everywhere); I am wondering if part number 68105-89101 would work though? 68105-89101 seems to be the same but non-heated which I don't think worked anyways; I found a site with this part and it would be about $400-500 after shipping which isn't too bad.

If you have any information on this then that would be amazing; also if you have a lead on rear glass somewhere else that would work I would be very interested. I am planning to try to punch out the roof to get a windshield to fit, but if I can't do that then I may try to find a replacement roof or I will have to sell it

Yes it was that ugly before the crash; I was actually planning to start painting it in the next couple weeks.

 

Welcome to the forum. I'm glad everyone is ok.

I bought a 1988 new, so it warms my heart that you want to fix this girl. While I can't provide much in the way of actual help, I do appreciate your plans to fix your truck. I hope you find all that you need at prices that fit your budget.

 

When I was in 6th and 7th grade (2000-2002), my shop/science teacher had a red 1988 T4R that he had bought brand new. My dad was in the Navy so we moved a lot, and this was when my dad stationed at NAS Whidbey Island. Specifically, we lived in Oak Harbor, Washington. Winters are fairly mild on Whidbey Island, but in 1996 they got one hell of a blizzard. My teacher flipped his '88 T4R while driving in said blizzard, and amazingly they did not total it. It cost about $8,000 to fix and insurance picked up the tab. He was still driving it in 2002. This same T4R was stolen from Whidbey Island in the 1990s and found by police two hours away in Seattle days later; I think it had a broken window and a punched steering column, but the damage was minimal. This incident prompted my teacher to install an alarm system. The 4Runner was a 5-speed, so nowadays I think millennial thieves would be deterred by that alone...

 

Yeah this one is 5-speed and I had to learn how to drive it but it's way better than automatic. I didn't have collision insurance on it so I am not going through insurance; it's good that I have a spot to put it inside so if it takes a while to fix it should be safe in there. I am really hoping I can get the roof straight enough to put a windshield in it and it doesn't even have to look great, just be functional. I'm in Marysville so actually not too far from Oak Harbor.

 

In typical autistic preteen Toyota fanboy fashion, I was obsessed with the 4Runner. The teacher who owned it was Mr. Wiener, and I believe his first name was Michael; I am posting his name in hopes that somebody on here knows him or the 4Runner and can tell me whether or not the truck even still exists.

I do not remember the trim level, but it was red with a white top and white steel wheels. It had a gray interior, it was definitely a 4-cylinder, and it did have A/C. Air-conditioning was surprisingly uncommon in older vehicles sold new in the Pacific Northwest, but Mr. Wiener's truck definitely had it.

I had a very love/hate relationship with Mr. Wiener because he was strict, but I was generally a good student and never got into any trouble with him. It was when I was getting afterschool tutoring from him in 7th grade that I got to know him a little better. His parking space was located directly outside the shop class, and he let me look at his 4Runner. I also remember that it had an aftermarket 1980s-vintage Realistic cassette deck installed directly below the factory AM/FM radio. Vehicles don't seem to rot in the Pacific Northwest like they do in other parts of the country, so I wouldn't be surprised if that rig was still around. Mr. Wiener had to be at least 50 in 2001, so he is probably retired from teaching by now...

 

I am amazed that it held up so well! I'm guessing that, since you're not using insurance, the truck will still have a clean title?

 

Would you believe that a member of this forum has basically the same truck? The T4R in the quoted post is a 1985 (Mr. Wiener's was a 1988), but this basically what my teacher's truck looked like!

 

Yup, it will still have a clean title because insurance doesn't know about the crash; if I do get it all fixed up I will definitely need to go through everything carefully so something like this doesn't happen again. Losing steering while driving down Stevens Pass at 60mph is not a pleasant experience...

 

That makes the little mishap I had at a scrapyard almost exactly a year ago seem like a Hawaiian vacation; $3,000 to fix my Tacoma, including a replacement door from a salvage truck! It wasn't my fault and the scrapyard's insurance company paid for everything...

Particularly infuriating was that this was less than three months after I got my frame replaced under recall; I was leaving the scrapyard and an excavator caused a scrap avalanche that resulted in large metal pipe smashing my door...

 

Check with Rancho Toyota Parts I brought from them before when I needed hard to find parts for a 1978 Toyota Celica.

http://www.ranchotoyotatruckparts.com/carpages/toy-2020-1947.html

 

Holy hell, glad you are all okay.

There's a few complete trucks kicking around that might be worth looking into:
https://offerup.com/item/detail/55a7ff48-f019-355c-a6a5-3bed2ef6c126?q=4runner&cid=5.1

I was looking for a new tailgate not to long ago and Yank-A-Part in Poulsbo had several 1st gens:

Yank A Part Auto Wrecking | Poulsbo, WA
http://www.yankapart.net

 

I have a rear glass I don’t know what to do with. But I’m all the way in Brandon, FL…near Tampa. It’s my original glass, the rail that the regulator pushes the window up and down with is a bit corroded and one side of it has a hole big enough for the regulator arm wheel to pop out of. As a temp fix I used JB Weld to stick a plate on the rail to keep the wheel in there, it’s not great, travel is kinda rough but it works. I happened to get lucky and find a good one with an intact rail on CL locally the other day.

Maybe you can use the glass, and with a little heat could swap the rails with your original. Or just do a better repair on the rail than I did. I honestly don’t know what it would cost to get it all the way across the country to WA, probably a lot. But if you are ever in the area we can make a deal. Make me an offer if you wanna try having it shipped to you.

 

I have the rear glass and Regulator...both in good condition. I'm in Cleveland.