I recently rescued an 89 4Runner from being parted out. I have done a little here and a little there and things are coming along nicely. Amazing what can be accomplished with a little TLC and patience.

I have hit the wall on the simplest thing, I don't know where the dipstick is supposed to be on the 3.0 V6. I have located the Auto Tranny dipstick but I have drank a lot of beer staring at the engine compartment looking for the oil dipstick???

Engine runs and I can drive it now but no dipstick I can easily see?

 

It should be on the driver's side of the block right under the engine mount and between the oil filter and oil cooler; at least that's where the whole in the block is.

The dipstick itself is right behind the distributor with a yellow handle (barely visible in this pic):


You can kind of see it here under the cruise control cable:


Sorry I don't have a better picture, but these were the best ones I have from before I pulled the 3.0.

 

It's that yellow thing in the picture behind and below the distributor, directly in front of the brake master.

 

Found it! Thank You SacRunner! The dipstick is gone but I did find the tube where it is supposed to be. Just another item I will need from the bone yard.