pyrojoe22

For the water temp, are you going to adapt the stock toyota sensors to the merc thermosrtat? I started working on adapting accessories tonight, and found that both the merc and yota thermostats have 2 sensors in them. I'm going to look for an adapter that will let me screw in the stock yota sensors.

dmarsh4x4

Yes Joe, I am planing on using the Toyota sending units.

MaDkAtT44

subscribed wicked project soo jealous of your mgp :o

bobbybouche

Hey Dmarsh,
I think I speak for the group when I say we need more Mercedes diesel/1st gen 4Runner porn

5runner

yes dmarsh we need more!!

XtraSlow_XtraCab

Just curious, is there an alternative to modifying the oil pan? This is the first thread that mentions such a thing.

5runner

i know on the 1 uz swap people were doing body lifts to avoid that

dmarsh4x4

I do not know how much clearance there is with a solid axle but with the IFS in my case the mod's on the oil pan are needed to clear the steering tie rod, the alternitave is moving the motor forward and or raising the motor, in which case the radiator would be in the grill and the valve cover would be out the hood, you could maybe use a 3" body lift for the heigth issue but I wanted to keep my CG low. More updates will be coming soon.

pyrojoe22

Hey there Dmarsh, I was wondering if you used the stock Toyota power steering pump?

And for your water temp sensors, did you have 2? I have 2 probes, Joe only has 1 on his. I'm trying to figure out if I have to run both, or what the other one is even for.

dmarsh4x4

Pyrojoe, sorry for the delayed response, yes I am using the toyota P/S pump, if you look towards the bottom of page two of this thread there are pictures of the pump and bracket and mounted on the motor, as for the temp sensors I have two, but have not goten far enough to know what I need to use yet

dmarsh4x4

OK Here is an update, it seems like every day off I have had for the last two months has been lousy weather


Here are some pictures of my modifyed oil pickup, I milled a rectangle tobe out of solid stock


The additional higth is to match the depth of the modifyed oil pan


After welding I used a stone to clean and flaten the face to remove any warpage from welding


On the motor


My power steering pump had the reservoir mounted to the pump so I modified the the reservoir to be able to attach a hose to and run a stock remote reservoir



More updates to follow

inskeep

Your workmanship is very nice.
Your pan notch and motor location as far as I can tell from pics are with steering stabilizer relocated maybe to the rear of tie rod.
Is that correct?

B-yodaful

Hey d as far as suspension goes what are you doing to beef it up to handle the Extra weight?

pyrojoe22

Snow in Arizona and 70 degrees in Kansas in January. WEIRD!

If you have any ideas on the water temp sensors, please let me know asap. Gotta have this thing done by next Saturday (leavin for my internship). Thanks!

dmarsh4x4

inskeep - Thanks, and yes the steering stabilizer will be mounted behind the tie rod

B-yodaful - for suspension so far all that has been done is torsions have been cranked up a little, I am not sure how much more the Mercedes weighes over the stock six cylinder

pyrojoe - as far as the temp sensors on the Mercedes I believe one is for the glowplug relay to sense if they are needed for starting and how long they stay on.

pyrojoe22

My confusion is that I have 2 probes from the 22R. Roger Brown said some have 2 probes that measure resistance between eachother, like mine, and then there's single probes like Joe's that measure resistance between the probe and the ground of the block. I don't know where I would install the second probe. Room is tight.

dmarsh4x4

I have never heard of that set up where two temp probes measure resistance between each other, why cant you just get a single probe and install it ?

559runner

keep up the good work... i'm interested in buying one of those adaptor plate... wanna make me one?

draggin209

How are you getting it to be registered? Since the motor is older than the runner an thts a big no no. Cause I wanna throw this.motor in my 91

dmarsh4x4

draggin209 - In my case this 4Runner is basicaly being bulit from various componets and is not currently registered I will try for a special construction registeration which should register to the year of motor, if that fails I will register it to my other address out of state.