so today after 3 full days of swapping motors, we started my 92 pickup and it started right away. the only complication now is the gasket for the egr, that when i started the engine i could hear a vacuum leak, but thats a 5 minute change, i also have a air bubble in my coolant, truck isnt heating great, and temperature isnt coming up very much. but other than that im running on all 6 now, and got lots more power and it takes a lot less gas! so now i have a motor with half the mileage on it, this one has 175000k and the old one had 330 000k.

oh and i havent taken apart the old engine, but im almost 100% sure that the problem was an exhaust valve, ill let u know when i find out.

 

wow once again 24 views and no replies, why do i bother posting on this site?

 

Cool to hear.Unfortunatly, I know nohing about mechanics so I can't answear any questions. What motors did you swap, a 22re to a 3vze? By the way where abouts in Quebec are you?

 

Yes Yes, double post. But I think *this* recent thread might help you out if you havent read it.

 

no i swapped a 3.0 to a 3.0, the original had a cylinder with no compression, i live in cowansville, qc, about an hour from montreal.

 

ya i just read it, i have my friend whos a mechanic who helped me install the motor looking at it tomorrow, i heard bubbles when i started the truck today, so iim pretty sure its an air bubble.

 

Glad to see someone else with engine woes come back fighting...

Mine had broken rods, still not running yet (don't even have a replacement engine), but the fight continues.

 

Cool long live 3.0s!

 

maybe you should post this in pirate......

 

Good job on the engine swap. It sure is nice to hear that engine catch and take off running after spending several days being torn completely apart.

 

your well on your way to getting 500 000kms as long as the eastern salt doesnt get the rest of the truck good work. any pics of the old girl?

 

3 days? That sounds like the route I should have taken. I ended up tearing down the old motor and rebuilding it with all new parts. Between actually deciding to do it, and waiting for money and parts she's been sitting in the garage for over a year. I guess I learned a lot in that time though. Mine should be going in the next couple of days. My last parts trip to Toyota: $81.00 for 4 valve shims. Geeze. Good job and I can't wait to hear mine fire for the first time too.

Jason

 

You gave it all of 1 hour and 20 minutes, a lot of people were still working



Either way, good job on the swap, 330K (Km or Miles) is a great number on a 3.0

 

heres a couple of pics, and now the only thing left is my gasket for the egr ripped during reinstalling, so the engine is stumbling a bit right now, and there was no thermostat in the donor engine! lol, changed that, and now theres a bit of a vibration when i start the engine or step on the gas, we figure its due to teh transmission vibrating, when we jacked the tranny a bit one of the rubber transmission mounts came out, so i put it back in, but i dont think its in properly, so ill be taking care of that next, other than that truck runs great now!





and the donor truck and a bit of the process,



stripping the old motor



the donor truck when i got it,



after i was done with it



all of this in 3 days!

 

Cool pictures. I always like to see the process told in pics...