ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Nissan timing chains are the worst design ever! KA24DE's have that stupid jackshaft idler crap from one timing chain to the next. and the seconday (cam) chain always makes noise. It's like they took the KA24E and decided to make it a twin cam 16V head and went, "Oh, S#^%! How are we going to link the crank and the cams because the lifter buckets take up too much room to run one chain. we'll just space it out a little bit with another chain and call it good." Retards......

I've had quite a few of those apart and all for timing chain issues and i wouldn't complain about it if it were an easy chain to do. But it's not! Altima timing chains call for like 13+ hrs book time.

Ok. Ok. My rant is over.

 

I would strongly disagree with the GM 4.3 vortec v-6 as I have had a couple myself and there are no good things to be said other than you can get easy power and cheap parts, sooo glad you can get cheap parts..poarts parts parts.... first one 141k, water pump, twice (97 s-10 p/u) distributor, fuel injectors, new timing assembly
2nd -- 2002 chevy s-10 blazer, water pump61k, timing 72k, fuel injectors 80k, new plastic upper intake 81k...
22re, good motor
i as well hope for good karma saying 3vze (ummmm just bear with me) I have 233k HARD miles on mine and I know it wasnt treated any better before I bought it, toyota backed up the problems and made right the steering and headgasket issues... ok I give up, not the 3vze.... I have some serious issues right now aside from you cant even look in the engine bay without straining to find a hole to see to the ground.
The VW well, its its own thing...lol...as far as watercooled engines I would have to say the 22 series yota motors for dependability, ease of maintenance and availability of parts. then prolly honda 2.0 as far as proven, these 2.... however, I see the 3.4 (5vzfe) possibly taking the gold on this topic if asked in another 2 or 3 years.
so trying to be psychic i am going to say the 5vzfe of all time

 

1970's dodge slant 6 engine

 

GM fans in Yota Tech?

 

My M52 in my Beamer kicks butt, too bad every other electronic likes to fail in the car.
I've seen several of them up in the million miles, just gotta stay on top of the maintenance to get there.
Ps the 4.0l straight six in jeeps is garbage, terrible mileage, horrible power to displacement ratio, enough said and everyone I know who has one blew it up in less than 200k miles.

 

I don't really think the 4.0L sucsk that bad..
Most make it around 200,000 and break something but so do 22re's, and they make plenty of power for a cherokee or wrangler

(Jeeps still sucks though lol)

 

22r for the win. Although my dad had an old lebaron station wagon with the 318 V-8 TorqueFlite in it and it just would not die. Low on oil no problem...cylender dead no sweat..missfireing..ok..thing was a beast.

 

I've got 226,000 on my 3vze.. Haven't had any problems with it.
Ran great when I started it after it sat for 8 months.. And the previous owner probably never changed the oil, was complete sludge when I bought it, still runs great.

So many people tell me how crappy the 3.0 is and yet most of them have never even owned one.. makes me mad haha.

 

Toyota 22r
VW 1300
Chevy 327
and all Honda b-series

 

I dont think you can go wrong with the 22r(e) on a toyota forum.. so I will say that, also being bias.. I have seen a 1960 international 304 fire up and run strong on the first turn of the key.. but that might just be a fluke.

 

Yep, i have before and will again second that. Old Dodge Slant Six's.

The Original KA24E's are also a great motor--they can take a beating

 

1996/7 4.5 liter inline six most durable engine ever!

 

22RE (duh)
Small Block Chevy
Chrysler Slant six
Chrysler LA V8
VW Flat 4
AMC I-6

I know there are a couple I'm forgetting.
Can't lose with any of them...

Chevy W-engines (348/409) are pretty sweet, but not really sure about reliabilty.

 

20r and early dual row timing chain 22r's

 

No one needs to mention the 22r/re. I'm a self taught mechanic....and still learning....and I haven't blown up my 22r....and I suck lol.

The 3rz is pretty rock solid. 235k on very basic maintenance....still purrs like she rolled of the assembly line.

Not a whole lot of experience with the Ford 300 i6 but from everyone that had the old f250 they worked em hard and didn't brake.

 

Honda motors do last a long time the B18 and ZC19 were great engines. I still give the title to the 22r/re because of a combination of durability and longevity. I have personally seen one riding around after it had slung a rod through the side of the block. I have a buddy that blew a head gasket and drove home about 20 miles. We all see pictures of trucks filled with water and mud and the stories that always comes with those pictures telling us about draining the engines and driving away. I once had a cold air intake decide to drink up a bunch of water from a flooded road one day and it killed my Honda. There was an old man that used to come to a shop that I worked at. He had an old 1971 Ford pickup with a 302 Windsor in it. He had a little over 700k on the truck with that original engine in it. Never had any work other than a 2 carb rebuilds, several tune ups, 1 alternator, and a radiator. All he ever did was change the filter and add a quart of oil every 4k miles.

 

kohler..

 

How about this bad girl?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxss...e_gdata_player
I tend to be a nut for hit-and-miss type engines, thanks to my uncle.

'89 22RE 4x4 longbed DLX
Sent from my LG-P505 using YotaTech

 

what about the land cruiser motors? F,2F,3F, 1fz are all very good motors. sure the F series is old but damn they are strong.

 

d-4d toyota diesel is new but not much about failures. Most issues with those motors are basic service (injectors, glow plugs)