im doing a moter swap in my 95, i found a moter, it says it fits in a 97 and 2000, is there a difference, will it all work out in my 95?

 

'96 and newer are all OBD2, so yes it is quite different. Unless you wanted to do the daunting task of making yours OBD2, but it's really not worth the trouble. I'm not really sure if the bare block and head are any different...

 

It can be swapped in but it will be a lot of work. You will need the wiring harness and computer for the 2.7 and you will need a complete new exhaust because the exhaust is on the right side, and other odds and ends to get it all hooked up and running.

 

Both of the above answers are wrong for your situation.

It sounds like you have a 95.5 Tacoma 2.7 and your looking at putting in a 2000 Tacoma 2.7.
Your 95.5 Tacoma is already an OBD2 truck.

The only difference between the two engines is the fact that the 95.5 uses a distributor ignition and the 00 uses a double coil pack ignition.
I'm 99% sure that the distributor will bolt up to the 00 engine.
Other than that everything should plug in just fine.

 

Don't know about the plug and play, but you know, whatever works... I'd assume just rebuild the original, since the exhaust valves always seem to burn up on those anyway.

 

Thats no joke. I recently shimmed my exhaust valves...

Spec is .014-.010...
I had one of them that was at .003


I'm pretty sure I'm going to need to rebuild the head within 100K miles..