crash

Well, as some of you know gibby's 4 runner, its grown up in the last couple of years (I remember those, ha ha ha days,lol). And as many of you know who have the great 3.0 v6, well, they really are turds, and expensive to fix, if they ever go BOOM. Well, gibby picked up a few new goodies for his rig, and the time has come. On sunday he drug it up to my shop, and the time has come to KILL IT (ok, the powertain anyways,lol)...

Damn, its BIG (I remember those days when, ha ha ha, I won't tell,lol)..

crash

Look at that cute, little turd of a motor
Its NOT that bad of a motor, its just not a great powerhouse by any means



And, here are the new goodies

nicely built SB350, Th350 tranny, 203 doubler(ops, forgot it in the back room) and a 205 t-case..

crash

OMG!!!! I have found mud in places I have never seen before





The next couple of days will be spent getting the old stuff removed, cleaned(I have not been this dirty in a long time) and then prepping the frame....

upndair

Hey, you flattened my tires?

Cebby

Nice! Can't wait to see more!

jimbo74

coolness

Yoda

Lookin' Good! (Let us know when the motor is out. One person's turd is anothers heart transplant)


Gibby, they're not flat........just aired down!

KevyWevy

and they're aired down cause its too high!!!!! hahahahaha if there is such a thing!

crash

scarey, huh

waskillywabbit

iTrader: (-1)

Gib's rig has always been on my top 5 cool runnas, now it is gonna be even cooler...

crash

Ok, the last 2 nights have been spent making a HUGE mess of myself, and the floor of my poor shop,lol.... Well, I finally got the tranny out, and so that leaves this next






And here is the end result



So tommorow I am dragging it out of the shop, going to clean what mud didn't fall on me off, and start preping the frame for the new goods.....

upndair

[QUOTE=Yoda]Lookin' Good! (Let us know when the motor is out. One person's turd is anothers heart transplant)
QUOTE]
I guess te answer would be - now!

It would be great if you could pick up the goods this weekend. Crash can likely use the room.

crash

I don't know, they make a great coffee cable

Yoda

I might be goin up there solo.......Dave may be on "snow watch" at SEATAC. I would love to see crash's shop. Still need his addy and/or phone #. Send me a PM.

upndair

Mike, I've misplaced your contact info. It's around somewhere. Could you PM Yoda with your info. He'll be picking up the motor, transmission and exaust.

NCSU-4runner

i would kill for a shop like that, i do all my work outside

nice looking 4runner, and a gorgeous motor, almost too pretty to get all muddy. . . almost being the key word

KevyWevy

why didn't you wash it off before you started?

upndair

I spent 2 hours with the power washer before it was started. All that mud is up, under, in and around parts that the power washer simply couldn't get to.

I'm going to have to start parking that thing on it's side so that I can get the bottom side of it cleaned out better. Not to mention cleaning it out more often!

crash

Too many nooks and crannys with everything there...

crash

Can anybody ID this ha ha ha

crash

Ready to do some cleaning( people who drove by must have thought I was nuts, 34 degrees and I am washing the rig standing in the engine compartment) :flipoff2:



Here is a better picture of the rig..




Now, doesn't that look a little better (ok, at least it will keep ALOT of crap from falling on me )

crash

Crap, boy, did I ever make one heck of a mess (and to think, I think half the stuff was on me,lol)




Ok, now I am ready




Ok, I winched the rig back into the shop and started planning my attack. The engine compartment is pretty much cleaned of most the seless stuff. There are just a few connectors that need to go away, but I will dig into that part once I am ready to actually start wiring the rig up..

crash

So, here is my big plan(ok, maybe a day ahead of where I am now,lol) is to get the frame rails prepped.



So, the first thing I will need to do, is remove the stock motor mount platforms in preperation for my crashfab mounts. I also had to remove a couple pieces of the left over IFS stuff that was left over since the mount will be hitting in the general area..





No turning back now huh SO now that the frame around the engine is pretty much prepped and ready. The next thing, will be to start mocking the motor in place. So, up early, and back at it

KevyWevy

nice!! you're fast!!!! so how much do you charge for something like this???

upndair

I'll give you guys a little insight as to how and I why I chose to do things. I decided to have Crash do the work for a couple of reasons:
- I've always believed in doing your own work so that you understand your rig and can take pride in your work. That being said, I really struggled with the decision to let someone else do this for me. Currently however, my schedule is just so jammed up that it would take me MONTHs to get through the project. I've already spent a couple months researching the pros and cons of the parts decisions. I also have a 1945 Willys MD that I've been doing a motor converion on and I've been about 3 months now and the motor is still hanging over the engine compartment waiting to be fitted and get the mounts welded in.
- My truck doesn't fit in my garage (too tall). I built a covered shop in the back but Wicked_Runner is under there with his 4Runner undergoing an SAS, rear leaf spring conversion and 4.3 swap. Markus has more time than I and he's been at it for about 4 months and may get start fitting the motor in this weekend.
- Why didn't I wait till I had more time? Well, in preparation for the project, I listed my motor and sold it quickly. I didn't want to put off completeing that transaction any longer than necessary. Markus will be using many of the Toyota parts that I'm taking off since he'll be using the Toyota drivetrain. My pilot and throwout bearing are cooked and I didn't want to pull everything down to change these when I'm going to pull the whole thing shortly anyway.
- So why Crash? I've know him for about 8 years and trust his knowledge, epxertise and honesty. I know that he knows Toyota's well and has done several similar conversions. I had 2 other places that would've done the work, but in both cases, they would've had to spend time figuring stuff out that Crash has already figured out with previous conversions. When I look at the work he's done and is doing, I know that it would take me 3 times the number of man hours than it would take him.
- The money??? When I figure that it would take me 3 times the man hours to do the same work, it made financial sense and would cost me less to not take the time from my work to do the project. As strange as it sounds (I'm self-employed), it would cost me more money to do it myself.