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Well I have decided to rebuild. My best guess is a problem with a piston. I reinspected the cylinders best I could from under the truck, and found a big gouge down the #6 cylinder. I talked to a local machine shop who quoted me 1700 bucks for a full rebuild. What do you guys think of that...

One of my main bearings was groved with a piece of metal stuck to the end of the bearing. The rest look fine and the micrometer on the crank and bearings are all within specs. I think the metal that groved my main bearing came from somewhere else in the motor. At this point I am leaning...

The interesting part to me is that the knock was gone after tightening the pulley, but came back as soon as I changed the oil. I don't think it has anything to do with the oil filter because a usually use the napa filter and this problem is clearly from loosing oil pressure. One thing that I...

The filter that was on it was a Toyota filter and the one I replaced it with was a NAPA. I have no idea why the nut came loose. It hasn't been touched since I have owned it (3 years). I wasn't aware of the pulley driving the oil pump, and I thought that the steering going out was something...

Hello everybody, I am a new member to this forum, but have been reading here for some years and have found lots of helpful info here. I have a 96 LC that I have owned for a few years. 212k on the odometer. A couple of weeks ago I started intermediately losing power steering when turning into...