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The 3.0 had headgasket issues that you'd still be at risk for dealing with by adding a turbo. There's also not a ton of space so you'll likely be considering a rear mount, which can be a bit of work and expense. The 3.4 bolts onto the stock motor mounts of the 3.0. Sourcing the parts is a bit...

State Farm has a collector's insurance as well, and there was no restrictions on driving/garage/other car that I can remember. What I do remember is you need to take some pictures just so they can confirm that it has a motor and it exists.

After hacking away at the fan shroud, it's just basically an upper guard at this point. On top of that the plastic is so brittle that if it cracks it'll sacrifice itself into the fan. I'm going to run without it for a bit. I still have it, but I'm not convinced it's going to do anything at this...

That is beautifully functional. and some beautiful welds.

Any details on how you fabricated the custom shroud?

I don't disagree, but after the swap and the body lift the bottom half of the shroud would impact the fan. Because of that the lower half the shroud had to be cut. So I'm left with the top portion and some small parts of the side. With this new Champion radiator being wider I'm going to have to...

Took a look at the timing belt when I have the radiator out and it looks pretty much brand new, no cracking that I can see. So I'm going to defer this for the timing being. Flushed twice with the old radiator in, then swapped the new champion in. I was surprised on how heavy the old radiator is...

Drove through socal last week so picked up a champion on the trip. Trying to decide on just drain and fill with radiator replacement, or lump everything together and do a timing belt as well. Mileage we don't drive this vehicle a whole lot so we're nowhere near the mileage recommendation...

Yep, I've seen that post. The thermostat jiggler is definitely at 6 o'clock

So it looks like there's a TYC avail for this body style at roughly 140, on the other end of the spectrum holley has a frostbite alumnium for roughly 400. TYC seems to be very highly thought of, but those plastic end tanks....

It hasn't just gotten hot, I replaced the fan clutch 1.5 years prior thinking it might have been the culprit, so it's been getting somewhat hot for a while now. It's just not a vehicle we utilize that often, so I've back burnered it for a while. oh forgot to add. there's also two bottles of...

1991 4runner with a 5vzfe swapped motor from a T100 Blue fan clutch has had the temperature calibrated to 120F and has 30k cst silicon oil Radiator is an CSF copper but is quite old at this point Fan shroud is incomplete missing the lower half, in swapping the motor the body was lifted and this...

Odd I guess I can't edit posts yet. How is the 25k working for you?

Thanks, I found a few bottles at action hobby in chandler. Picked up a 20k and 30k. From reading through a few more posts I think I'm going to go ahead and try the 30k.

When I was shopping around for classic insurance quite a few of them had severe restrictions on what I could and could not do. Interestingly enough State Farm has a collectable insurance that has no restrictions in terms of use. No restriction to garage only, no restrictions only to drive to and...