yotaman

Well I'm finally getting around to working on my beast again after taking a couple year leave to focus on my little girl, house work, and do a few 3.4 swaps for other people. I think this will be my 6th swap.

I'll be doing a lot to my truck in the next 6 months including: a 3.4 swap, R151F trans, dual 23 spline cases, 4.7 gears, longfield output shaft, a custom 9.5" cruiser front axle, a FZJ80 rear axle, 37" MTR's, blah, blah, blah......

This thread will be for my 3.4 swap.

It'll be a basic swap using a 100K mile 2WD Automatic 1998 3.4.

Here's a couple of pictures of the motor. The patient is in the back ground.

881stGenRunner

Nice, im going to keep an eye out for all your other threads as well. your work is incredible and never ceases to amaze me.

*subscribed*

yotaman

Thanks.

I'll also be doing some more work on my Tacoma for my brother. He'll be joining the Toyota family here soon. He's adopting my Tacoma and will be building it up for wheeling.

904_runner

Hope to see how yours goes.

Suscribed.

Hope you don't mind if i pick your brain for some info when i get started!

yotaman

I'll try to answer questions the best I can. I don't have a lot of time most of the time with 2 jobs a 2 year old and everything else going on.

904_runner

Thats cool, i just figure youve done 6 swaps already, you know what needs to be done!

yotaman

I really like these motors and they're just awesome in a 2nd Gen 4Runner. Soooooo easy to work on compared to a 3.0.

904_runner

Stop it, im drooling.......

lol

How long would you say your average swap takes?
also what do you do for the exhaust?

yotaman

If I had the time I could finish one in less than a week easy. All the ones I've done have been when I have the time so they've taken months to finish. I worked on them a few hours here and there.

I've also 5 speed swapped some and changed out diffs and suspension parts at the same time on some also.

Most of the time I just trailer the trucks to a buddy's exhaust shop and let him do whatever the customer wants.

I've also taken them the motor and bellhousing and let them make a crossover before putting the motor in the truck. I think the second option is the best if possible.

I'll more than likely just leave the exhaust on the passenger side for this swap and use a 3.4 bellhousing to put the slave cylinder on the driver side.

The 3.4 bellhousing may be deeper so I may not be able to use this option. I don't know just yet. I have a 3.4 R150 in the garage I'll measure it one day and found out if swapping the bellhousing is an option.

904_runner

Okay.... Im thinking about starting this over spring break since i have 10 days off.

I will be working on it mostly non stop during that time though!

So without having that slave cylinder on the dirver side would it be possible to keep it on the passsenger side and have the exhaust dump out the driveside?

yotaman

You can keep the slave on the passenger side. You just need to have a custom crossover made or some other exhaust work done to get around the slave.

904_runner

Okay.... Ill look into it some more..

scuba

Woaahh, subscribed as well. Cant wait

JonnyBoy

If you use the whole 3.4 R150 with the marlin adapter to mount a gear t-case, you can have the slave on the driver's side.

Otherwise, the input shaft would be an inch or so too short. I measured mine, plus the bellhousing lengths are listed on the MarlinCrawler forum somewhere. I'll see if I can find the specs thread there.

Edit: Here it is:http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=11245.0

yotaman

Thanks for the info.

I'll be using an R151 so I guess the 3.4 R150 bell housing may be out. I can not see paying $300.00 for the adapter plus I'd still have to buy a $150.00 23 spline 2.28 input shaft.

I'll just flip the crossover if need be.