I am not planning to do anything too extreme to the old girl, for now just trying to put together some reliable transportation.

Started out with your basic 1995:



Cameron & I started working...the end of the first day was frustrating:

 

The results were disturbing:

 

wow that thing probably had some wicked rod knock. are you going for stock replacement or motor swap?

 

looks like you are going to have to take that to a machine shop or find a replacement. What ever you do it will be worth it in the end so keep your head up, otherwise that 4runner looks pretty clean from what I saw.

 

Made a call to www.toyotatruckpart.com and picked up this little jewel and started swapping parts:

 

I even got my 15 y.o. son latched onto the end of a wrench!


Got the motor back in...really close now:

 

ehheeh! Good work man!!!!

 

Got her back on the road and running smooth:


I even had a chance to play in the snow:

 

I was on my way home from a hockey game (almost 1,000 miles on the new engine now)....and the engine caught fire (no pictures, I was too busy trying to get the fire out). Well, turns out that a vacuum line was laying on the exhaust manifold and caught fire. A good samaritan stopped and had a case of bottled water in his truck. We got the fire out and I zip-tied the vacuum lines off to get home. I noticed on the ride home that the exhaust was leaking on the same side as the fire...so I started looking around and eventually discovered this:

It appears that the water cooled the manifold too quickly and warped it:

 

My birthday present arrived by UPS today...and full LC Engineering Exhaust!

Headers:

 

Free-Flow Catalytic Converter:



Magnaflow Muffler:


Tailpipe:

 

I wish I could take a day or two off from work to put it on...probably going to be the weekend before I have the time to install it.

 

The oil pickup was almost completely clogged when I got the oilpan off....so bad that it sucked the screen up into the pickup tube....I am wondering if the P.O. ever changed the oil.

The interior was surprisingly clean.....very good shape!

 

Last photo for tonight....I have to go walk the dog:

 

Shiny!!!!!

 

Man I bet you felt terrible when you saw the fire.. Good luck with the rest of the build ...and I need something like that exhaust .

 

Carefull with the LCE book, It will drain your wallet in a hurry.

 

I can absolutely see that happening. The exhaust system did a pretty good job of that already...probably no new toys for a quarter or so.

 

lmao, I hid mine "somewhere" on the book shelf for that very reason

 

Today is the day...heading out to start putting the headers on....hopefully it will come together well!