Thanks!!! wish my body was as rust free as yours. The auto is the first ive owned after many manuals and i think the manuals are far superior but as long as your not brutal on the autos they do fine. Mine shifts nice and tight and i can smoke my cigar with my right hand and steer with my left and not have to shift.

Good luck on your tranny swap and engine as well.

 

hopefully me and87blackbeauty can workout something on my old four runner for parts and the 5 speed swap

and the auto is heavy, heavy chunk of metal

 

well the 5 speed isn't exactly light as a feather either..... good luck with your swap

 

You can manhandle it around though. As long as you can control that transfer case and you've drained the fluid from both. Ask me how I know... I agree though. I suppose dry weight is 100lbs-ish. You know, somewhere between 0 and 300 in the weight department.

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Actually it's probably more like 160-170 ish dry since I just barely can't bench it up into it's hole. I can get it around though, and I'm not scared it'll kill me if I pull it out. Autos though... They frighten me a bit.

 

Well guys, got the motor tore down today to really get a good check on everything and it was good mostly
#2 rod is shot its cracked all the way through miracle it didn't break
ruined crankshaft
on the good note though piston walls look great, no scoring scratches, or ridge around the top

looks like its gonna be a pain wish i had another motor to build

 

Very nice runner. Never see on that clean around here!

That's too bad the rod is trashed. However you did get lucky that it didn't go through the block or grenade the whole bottom end.

 

Uh oh. Ruined crankshaft is no bueno. Seems like you said when I saw you that the P.O. claimed it was rebuilt? He didn't happen to mention the build was done in a sandbox did he? By middle schoolers? hahaha That's just if memory serves, which it often doesn't. What's the mileage on it?

 

It only has 186,000 on it but the po let the front crank seal leak and didnt check the oil
you can actually pull the rod by hand and make the crack bigger almost went kaboom!!!

 

Previous owner had the head and chain replaced about ten thousand before low oil pressure destroyed a nice engine
Hopefully I can get it to the machine shop end of the week and let him do some diagnosis on whether he thinks it should be bored or if he can just hone it.

 

Who lets a leaking front crank seal go so far that it lets the oil level get so low it does that!? GEEZ!!

 

young kid, plenty of money, daddy bought him new truck afterwards lol

hopefully that sheds some light on it

little bit of maintenance goes a long way

 

Hey guys just a little update. Not much going on been very busy at work the past few weeks. Big rigs don't have time to sit around so gotta keep me moving but I did visit my old runner yesterday and probably gonna buy the whole truck back from 87black beauty

Thanks for keeping up things to come soon I hope

 

That is a clean looking runner. Some of the things that POs do to them makes you wonder. Looking good.

 

Well guys finally got back to the shop to do a little work on her today. Finished getting the plastic hard as a rock seats out for good and got the pedal assembly out getting ready for the 5 speed.





Finally got the exhaust manifold off today.

 

 

Well now just waiting on my vacation check that i bought back and ill go pick up my old runner from 87blackbeauty and get the pedals and w56 stuck in.
Loaded my block up today, hope to drop it off monday at the machine shop.

Thanks guys for all the comments, and as far as anyone looking to do the five speed swap its not bad at all.

 

UPDATE BIG UPDATE!!!!!
going to pick my parts truck up from 87blackbeauty on friday or saturday so i can get back on this project. I hate my runner being apart and being drug around the yard to the shop. such a sad sight to see

 

Awesome news!! Can't wait to see more progress pics.

 

Picked her up and on the way home with her. Thanks 87blackbeauty for the parts truck

 

Glad you got it, and touching on your ruined crank, I know a fellow with 95ish pickup that leaked like a pig out that front main like yours and he claims it was by accident that it ran out of oil and seized. It's a bummer to meet people like that and even more of a bummer when they won't sell you the truck! hahaha. It's really not hard to take care of these engines. Check the oil, coolant, and if it sounds funny, fix it. Letting it get bad is no good.