ironroad9c1

Where did the engine go?

only a couple of small rust spots




The white part at the bottom of the pan ,is all the water that came out of the engine when i drained the oil..he said he was playing in some water and hydrolocked it ,but thats fine cause i have a nice turbo block that i can use for parts..lol
this gives a little better idea of how mch water is in the bottom of the pan as far as how big the pan is

its alot..lol
seats are in decent shape

pass side is a little better.

and i was checking t out last night ,and found a brand new craftsman 3/4 inch ratchetand 17mm socket..lmao
this is what it looked like before i got it home.


it was acually worse than that ,it had been parked under a tree for 3 months.took a couple of washings with clorox and dawn dishwashing detergent to get it clean ,plus i spent 4-5 hours pressurewasing every nook and cranny under it .

Chapman88SR5

this is sweet, i cant wait to see what your guna do. i have those same wheels on my 88 but i just bought some rock crawlers and those wheels are forsale. polish them and they look real good!

nice start though!

ironroad9c1

yea i'm prolly gonna get rid of em ,i'm not a big fan of em on these trucks ,prolly sell wheels and tires as a package.

ironroad9c1

well got the engine apart ,he wasn't lying when he said he sucked it full of water


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cleaned em out and checked the bore ,it needs bored,but i got a good turbo short block ,so i'm gonna use everything from it and just swap in these pistons after i clean em up and do a quickie rebuild to get the truck running ,so i don't lose interest in it and bore this block and start a stroker build up .

this engine was on borrowd time anyway due to the timing chain haveing lunch with the timing cover so soon it would have watered down the oil anyway and had a bottom end failure ,this prolly saved the block from a horrible death.

Sonofmayhem

Nice. i just picked up an 89 and love it.

87TurboYota

Awesome 4Runner and Garage. Just curious what happened to the turbo truck, did you sell it? if so how much did you get if you don't mind

ironroad9c1

i parted it out after it blew a head gasket twice in a week ,.

ironroad9c1

well got the short block torn down and found a cracked wrist pin ,was bent and had to press it out of the piston and rod assy .

this isn't supose to be like this..

Sonofmayhem

lol on the bottom pic, what the info on suspension? tire size? i love the way it looks.

ironroad9c1

its got 32x11.50 on a stock suspention ,guy was gonna install a body lift ,but i'm glad i got it before he did. i'm going to go with some BJ spacers and maybe a block or some litle longer shackles in the rear

Sonofmayhem

thats what im looking at, but im gonna keep my 31s till i regear.

yotakid825

It' s one of new rods...I heard they're supposed increase performance

ironroad9c1

lol anyone got an extra piston pin?

ironroad9c1

bought my pistons today ,now for a re ring kit and i'm all good

ironroad9c1

Well its just about done ,just gotta go into town ,pick up a throwout bearing and a couple of hoses and drop it in.I am useing the later model intake also and the engine has a engine builder 268 cam and new valve springs ,and timing set along with the turbo oil pump.

Painted the exhaust manifold with some high heat por-15 ,figured i'd give it a shot , took almost 2 hours of bressure washing to get all the caked burt on mud off ,had to where googles and hold the wand right on top of it with the jet stream..lol


i used my turbo block due to it being in better shape ,made a block off plate for the oil return port ,and a bellhouseing bolt has the same threads as the oil supply bango bolt i i just applied some lock tight and stuck it in the hole ...

Sonofmayhem

cool, i just bent my rod in my runner, but i dont have enough time to rebuild it so its gonna get done for me.

ironroad9c1

lol good luck

ironroad9c1

well dropped it in ,just gotta bolt up the accys and drop in the rad and she should be runningby tommorow ,it would be tonight ,but i start thrid shift tonight.

ironroad9c1

well everything is in ,but the fuel pump will not turn on ,had to disassemble the AFM and clean it where the guy let water sit in the flap area and seize it up ,but break -free took care of that ,work fine now ,and i have pulled the plug for te pump and wired it right to 12 volts ,ran fine ,changed the circit opening relay ,and still no turn on ,took the cover off the ECM and there is no sign of water entry there ,even jumped teh FP1 and B+ terminals on the diagnostic block and no go. plus i can't get the codes to come up once i short t1and e ,i have a job interveiw this morning so i'll mess with it later today.

ironroad9c1

well i got it running the next day.After finding the AFM stuck closed due to the water ingestion ,i tore it apart and cleaned it really good with Break Free gun cleaner and lube ,that stuff it the ลลลล ,makes PB blaster look like water,and i love PB blaster ,annyway something was wrong in the underhood fuse block ,and something i messed with over there returned the power to the EFI circit ,so the fuel pump started ,asnd it runs great pleanty of power concidering it has 32's and stock 4.10 gears..lol