Hah, thanks....my sigh of relief will happen when it runs!
I've never gotten this deep in before, so far nothing seems particularly difficult but that may be because I'm doing it wrong.

 

96 4Runner, 304,219 miles, doesn't not run...

Started on the 3rd regular length crank, sounded good for the few seconds I ran it. Have to do some fiddly bit stuff and maybe put some coolant in it.
It's not officially running until it warms up and also can drive me around. Tomorrow should be the day!

 

yay!



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Well put!

The union between the snorkel and air box has a very short interface which bothered me. I've 'borrowed' one of my husband's silicone reducer hose bits to extend the elbow and get a better, more secure fit.

 

Are you going to quit your day job?

 

I'm not allowed to use the type of language you've inspired with that question!
No?

It's not done until it's taking me places and is running for more than a few seconds with no issues.

 

96 Mosquito fogger, 304,226

Got coolant back in it, started it up Friday and let it run about 12 minutes. Sounds good, no codes, freaking mosquito fogger butt going on.
Got home from work, ran it again maybe 10 minutes. Still pretty darned foggy. Changed the oil which def had a some antifreeze in it.
Husband got home, ran it for him to witness the fogginess, drove it a mile or so but then it was smoke screening the guy behind me a lot and I went home.

Looked over all the coolant/vacuum lines, all in order. Pulled the plugs, all look the same. The upper plenum smelled a little like antifreeze (!) White gunk in the pcv (probably where the coolant smell in the upper plenum came from) and oil cap.

This morning we checked compression. Got decent compression and fairly even numbers. Threw everything back together and went to get more oil. Still fogging out the butt, drove it about 5 miles...
Annnd the fog cleared up within the first couple of miles and all the moisture has been evaporated and everything seems to be good. No codes, no running hot, engine sounds good, feels good.
Did our shopping (for oil), no fogging on start-up or during the drive home.
Did another oil change and things looked much better and definitely much much less coolant in the oil.

Will be driving it about 150 miles tomorrow, will see how it goes but don't have any reason to think it won't be fine.

I'm putting this here in case someone runs into the same issue. I did a search friday night for like symptoms and found 1 post with the exact same issue on a 3.4 Taco - and the same result after driving it 5 miles.

 

Yay! You got the 5VZ-E running again!

I have seen other posts where coolant enters a combustion chamber and after fixing the issue the engine smokes or "fogs" fore a little after the problem was fixed. Maybe some coolant was still in the exhaust too.

I am sure you will give us a report on how the trip goes. Hopefully everything will be running smoothly for many more miles!

 

Thanks old87yota!

96 4Runner 304,337 miles....111 miles today, a lot of highway/gravel, some off-roading
It went great! Had a good time in the woods. A bit muddy for my taste but I got up or down every obstacle I aimed at.
It's not real hard but has some nice challenges, steep up and downs, and off-camber stuff. A fun day out and there were lots of Toyotas including several 3rd gens in various build stages to ogle and talk about.

Not quiiiiite touching the wall...


So far so good, knock on wood.

 

It really was an unusually large amount of steam that had to work its way out of the system. Not sure where it was storing all that, but when we took it for a short drive after it had idled for something like 20 minutes it was still letting out a SUBSTANTIAL amount of steam.

I really suspected a hose hooked up wrong on the intake/TB, but no, everything was correct. It just had a bunch of moisture to get rid of. We just should have driven it further on the first test drive.

Contributing factor (maybe?) was that it was cool and damp here, very easy to make visible vapor out the tailpipe.

 

Tadaahhh! (trumpet sound!!) Great work.

 

I always like to read your posts!! Great looking rig! Nice work!

 

You should have seen the 1st time I ran it! What you saw wasn't even half that.

Thanks! It took me places and no loss or gain of coolant or antifreeze so far so I guess I must've done something right.

You were one of the first people to post in this thread almost 9 years ago, I'm always glad to see you're still checking in.

 

96 4Runner 304,448 miles

Just going right along. Everything seems copacetic engine-wise so it's time to address drivetrain vibrations- especially at highway speeds. First and foremost- greased the driveshafts and u-joints.

I also pulled the frontside of the right lower control arm because it seemed the worst of the two arms and I'm just assessing what's what. It's going to need bushings or a new beefier control arm, the oe bushings are coming apart, especially the right rear.
These are the lower control arms my husband picked for me while at the junkyard, out of something like an '02, because the '96's were in bad shape. That bought me more than 4 years and over 40,000 more miles, they have served me well.
I'll drive with the newly greased stuff and see how my vibration is so I know if the rear lca's are a now or warmer weather thing.

 

96 4Runner 304,4xx miles

Nothing big, used Duck Brand Wrap-Fix self-fusing silicone tape 1" x 10' to reinforce the beginning to crackle intake tube. It's still in pretty good shape, just trying to keep it that way.

 

been there! I had to do the same on a 92 I once had. Held up for years until I sold it. Told the new owner about it and he didn't mind. Probably still like that to this day.

 

Good to know it held up for you! After seeing how well the rescue tape held up as a replacement for the plastic main wiring cover (that runs under the lower plenum) I thought it was worth a shot. I'll have to get some more to finish wrapping all the rubber part if I want it to look finished.

 

Mine is held together with Gorilla Tape!! ha

 

Whatever it takes to not spend almost $100 on new intake hose bits!

If I had gone that route it has to be oe because the aftermarket Chinese stuff won't hold up and I'd just end up going oe anyway.
So rescue tape FTW!

 

Saw a set of replacement front differential bracket bushings when plasticsguy over on t4r posted a thread to gauge interest and quickly developed the product. I was concerned about removing the old bushing sleeves but you only remove the bushing for these.
https://www.toyotabumpstops.com/inde...cket-bushings/

Had them in the cart and was putting off buying them but then he ran a black friday special so of course I had no choice.

Dug the dif brackets off the '96 out of the basement in preparation for their new bushings-


Step 1 is maybe I should clean them...




And then I gotta get the bushing out. The how-two said heat the surrounding metal and they'll release to either pop out on their own or push out.
Nope. Maybe because it's cold out, even though they were already partially separated from the sleeve these fought me quite a lot.
Eventually:


According to the Durobumps site painting them adds 5 hp. I fully expect and believe that.



If everything goes as USPS says they will show up tomorrow. Once that happens it's a matter of finding some spare time.