Nah everybody knows noise pollution only apllies to car audio

 

RMP8080 showed a way of getting to the bolts thru the shifter hole. Dont know if it would work on a V8, bu just in case you ever need to get at them, it might be a way. I wouldnt of thought of it. It is on his runner build and was a recent post if I remember right.

Here is the link, Post #89... https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f199...14/index4.html

 

Racer,I dont know about where Ed lives, in Yakima,but here where I live you can get a ticket if your shirt is too loud.Ed are you going to go with a loud exhaust? I think im going to use 3 inch single exhaust,and try to fit 3 really good mufflers.I like mine SBD.

 

Ha, ha, I don't have a stereo in my runner, so I should be good to go with open headers, lol

Thanks for the info Terry. I saw Bill's thread, that was a good idea! On my bellhousing I can actually get to all of the bolts with a boxend wrench, I just couldn't get the bolts into place due to the extra length of the bolts due to the thickness of the bellhousing flange, there just wasnt enough space between the firewall and the bellhousing. That's why I had to lower the front of the tranny down (the crossmember was still bolted in place) just to get the long bolts started in the holes before bolting it up to the motor.



Hey Brian, my exhaust isn't super loud, its got a good rumble to it, I'm running dual exhaust (2" pipe) with 2 older style flowmasters...I'm just reusing what was on the 85' pickup, just shortening it to fit. A single 3" would be cool, with 3 mufflers it should be pretty quiet... sorry, I'm horrible with abbreviations, not sure what SBD stands for, lol.

 

I think a 3 inch body lift installed first would also help..lol
An old timer Toyota guy give me the idea, said lower rear of the tranny and get to the bolts.......

 

Silent but deadly

 

Ed,if you have made it this far with no body lift you are doing good.I have herd doing a v8 swap without one is very difficult.I got metal and my tools back today.I should be back working on mine tomorrow.

 

Looking back, I wish I had a body lift, swapping the 302 in probably would have been a lot easier, lol.

Silent but deadly, I knew it had to be something like that, lol. I like that idea, kinda thought about doing a single exhaust myself, kinda the hotrod "sleeper" concept...I might change my exhaust later when I have more $$$. The 5.0 badge on my tailgate is probably a dead giveaway anyhow! LOL. Yeah the PO of my 85' pickup didn't have a body lift either, so I knew it could be done, it was challenging tho!
Glad you got your welder and tools back, look forward to an update and some pics of your build!

 

I got a little done yesterday, I got the wiring to the alternator swapped off the 85' pickup and onto the 4 runner. The wiring had already been lengthened to move the alt from the driverside to the passengerside. I also got all the fuel lines swapped over for the Carb, it routes the fuel line from the passengerside firewall up and over to driverside to the mechanical fuel pump. I got the the exhaust started, put in the new collector gaskets (total PITA on the passenger side with all the brake lines bolted to the frame right in the way). Now I need to find a hotwire from the ignition to run to my starter, I don't remember if the original wire was part of the EFI wiring harness that I unplugged and sold. Can anyone tell me where the ignition relay is located? If I remember correctly I think its on the passenger side under the dash. I will probably just run a hot from there to my HotShot starter relay that I already have.

I did a little touchup painting on the lip of my hood, its not a perfect match, but I wanted to take care of the rust before it got any worse, the only other rust spot is a little spot by my driver side mirror.




Its close enough match for me, the rest of the hood and 4runner is nice enough, I don't plan on doing a full paint job for quite awhile.
I have to finish helping my bro-in-law move out today so wont get to work on the runner until tomorrow.

 

Little progress is better than no progress

 

Yea,lol

 

Dont blame you on wanting to stop the rust.

Do you mean the starter relay? It is located on the passenger fender. Behind the Passenger speaker is the Circuit Opening Relay that is part of the fuel/ignition system if that is the one you were asking about.
Starter Relay


Circuit Opening Relay, behind passenger speaker.

 

Thanks for the pics Terry, I I figured out how the PO wired his starter, he came directly off the starter relay plug and ran it down to the starter, I think that's what I'm going to do.


I had to help my bro-in-law move most the weekend, finally got to work on the 4Runner today, I got #1, #2, #3,#5 all done on my list. I'm pretty confident that I will get her fired up tomorrow!

 

Well I got her fired up today!!! Finally was able to hear it run after nearly 3months of working on it. I had to do some modification on my bottom radiator hose. The outlet on the water pump was a lot bigger than the one on the Toyota radiator, so this is what I came up with.



^^^I took two peices of pipe, and sleaved the smaller one then welded it up allowing me to connect the two different size hoses together...so far its working, no leaks. Tommorrow I need to figure out what's up with my clutch, tried bleeding it a couple times, it feels like its got enough pressure, I can see the slave push in on the clutch fork, but I can't put it in gear, it wants to grind. I also need to finish the exhaust (although I like the sound of no mufflers, lol) and still need to wire up the electric fans and some other small stuff.

 

Awsome!! Congrats!! Hate to jeear bout ur clutch issues thought... sorry i can't offer any help

 

Throwout bearing or flexplate?

 

Thanks guys... I have a new throwout bearing, I didn't have any clutch issues before, I'm going to bleed the crap out of it tomorrow make sure there's no air in the lines and go from there... it was sure nice to hear it fire up tho, I didn't think I was ever going to get to this point, lol.

 

I know the feeling.

 

Yeah, but your getting close, now that you got your ( ED style, lol) motor mounts done you should be in the home stretch!

 

I had it running 2 weeks ago.I just couldnt put exhaust on due to Downey offroads funkey mounts.