Last weekend I bought a small Ryobi pressure washer. My son enjoyed it for about 3 hours cleaning mildew off our shed. I got to try it for about 5 seconds on the frame of the Goo runner and to my surprise, it took the gooey buildup off a small test spot.

The problem is, i only have my driveway and lawn to work on and if i was to do this, there would be oil left all over the place.
Can anyone suggest a way to catch/separate the oil from the water? Are there commercial products like mats or blankets for this purpose?

 

this is one of my biggest issues now having a new driveway and ran over a full oil pan the other day after an oil change. Something I never did to the old driveway 😖

I've used cardboard for smaller pressure washing projects though.

 

if it makes you feel any better Brent, i drove over our fire pit and bent it up. 🙄
Thankfully, was able to straighten it back out and bolt the feet back on with some new hardware so we can get another season out of it.

 

wife has been having a lot of fun with a trail cam in our yard. Aside from the other cats we don’t recognize, our own cats, a skunk and these guys





Not photographed yet but known to exist, possum, woodchuck.

 

those are cool shots!

Last weekend in the 4runner again we saw bears. I'm starting to call it a safari vehicle.

 

whoa! Where was that?

 

this was the last place we expected but they do spot them there. In Suffield CT on bridge street. It's close to to the center of town.

Hey I was thinking about that timing chain noise you said the technician noted. These engine's are noisy. How can they not with the way the cam and rocker is set up. I know there are 22RE s out there that are whisper quite, not mine. I kinda am kicking myself for not switching out my rocker assembly but I figured old Japanese is better than new Chinese 😅 also I have an old home video with my 22R in about 93 it almost sounds the same at just 3 years old. With a little more exhaust sound too. I don't remember paying attention to it back then. All it ever needed for 12 years was gas tires and oil.

 

i know mine has the metal chain guide and i think that may make it somewhat noisier, but the PO did the headgasket and, i believe, the timing chain too. The noise is when it first starts, kind of sounds like a diesel for a couple seconds, the the oil pressure comes up or enough gets flung on the chain or the tensioner expands and it quiets down. All will be revealed someday when I rebuild it.

 

Great weekend, spent the better part of each day in the garage doing the heart transplant on the Goorunner. The truck was pretty cooperative. The engine was installed about 80k ago, and the head in 2021 so everything came apart fairly well.

 

I decided to pull the intake off to make it easier to get to things like wiring, starter and fuel filter. That worked well.

One of the worst problems was getting to the 6 little torque converter bolts. While i was suffering underneath, i kept asking my helper above if there was any way to reach these bolts through the starter hole. He kept saying ‘no’. Well, there is now! Slight modification.

 

While the engine was out, i took about an hour of just scraping dirt and goo off the parts that were now accessible. This is the ‘before’ picture. I guess i forgot to take the ‘after picture’


Oil and dirt and goo.

 

I put the flex plate on three times. At first the bolts bottomed out because I didn’t realize there was a spacer behind the plate. Then i decided to modify the starter hole for access to the torque converter bolts. Then i realized my engine still had a pilot bearing in place and that would have to come out. I looked around the garage for a tool to improvise a puller, but my slide hammer had no way to attach to the bearing. Luckily i found a perfectly-sized bolt and tried the toilet paper trick for the first time.

You guys know the toilet paper trick? You cram wet toilet paper into the hole until it is full, then hammer the bolt through the hole. The hydraulic pressure pushes out the bearing. Took about 25 minutes.




Hole full of tp

 

And this is where we left it. It’s probably going to be a few weeks before it runs because I have to travel for business this week to NC, then Germany in early June, so probably will only have weekends.


My son said this truck didn’t deserve such a clean engine. I said “it can earn it.”

 

outstanding progress, keep it up! And tell your boy that truck has been around since you were his age, and it will run until he's a grandfather after you all are done freshening it up!

 

what's the story with the new engine? I must have missed that part, looks great

 

i actually bought that rebuilt engine out of an 87 4Runner where the owner was dropping in a 305 Chevy. It has 10k since the rebuild and I was going to put it in the beach truck. But I have decided to rebuild the original one instead (when the time comes). Part of my attraction to the Goorunner was it was advertised as needing an engine and i had one in the garage.

 

Good progress today, bolting everything back up. Bellhousing bolts went in fairly easily, but struggled with motor mount alignment. At some point i realized the plate between the block and trans did not have the hole to access the torque converter bolts. Good thing i had cut the window near the starter. It worked perfectly.

 

Outstanding work here! I'm just starting working on my interior, which appears to be same as yours (gray). Is that SEM Granite color a good match for it? I've seen some folks mention Graphite, but that was for an FJ.

 

I’ve tried a lot of the SEM gray shades, at least 4 or 5 of them, but not all. It’s difficult to really tell by the color charts you find online. The best two i have found are Graphite, which seems to be darker than my factory gray panels, and Thomas bus gray, which is lighter than Graphite, iirc.

Granite is too light.

 

Awesome, thanks for the intel. I'll grab some Graphite.