Recent content by mattyice

Hey all, I'm in need of a machine shop that'll bore out my 3vze from my first gen (piston slap and overall 35yo original pistons and rods tiredness). I contacted my local shops and one doesn't have the tooling for it and the other has a several month lead time. I'm in the northern California...

Hey I forgot I never updated this thread, turned out to be a bad distributor. Wasn't sending correct signals once going into the hot loop. I was only able to ifind out after getting myself a better multimeter with more functions. The one I got the truck with was not the original, something...

Good news and bad news, Good news is that all the cam caps seem to be in spec after doing plastigage. Bad news is that I stripped the hell out of the first cam cap. I know everywhere its said to be careful on that specific set of bolts, but I guess I wasnt enough. I will be chasing the...

I'll ask around. After posting I let brake cleaner sit in exhaust and intake ports to test valve seats and found a leaky intake on cylinder 6. That would explain losing 20psi there when I ran compression testing. Second cylinder head passed flatness test with flying colors, at least on the...

So, pics attached, not sure where to go from here. These cylinder heads already dont have the best shot at life given the circumstances. If this kind of test is an acceptable way to test how warped/plane the heads are I may be out of luck (for context this is sitting on a piece of granite I...

This is what I’m leaning towards. Plastigage comes in the mail tomorrow, praise Bezos. I finally have some form of shop air so I’m gonna blow all the oil and coolant passages from the cylinder heads out. I think dropping my oil pan is unavoidable at this point to attempt to chase down the spec...

Way late on my follow up to this post but my new years resolution is to finish this rebuild. I tore the heads all the way down and am now in progress cleaning up valvetrain and cylinder heads. Found some damage to the inside surface of the cam caps which I'm not super happy with. There aren't...

So far I have priced out my rebuild and have removed everything from the heads in order to make removing more easily possible (pic attached). I want to doubt my abilities to kill this 3vze but you never really know. I've put less than 500 miles on it since its heads were done so smoking a valve...

It would be a 'save up and do it right' build if i were to 5vze so for now I opened my clacky valvetrain on the 3.0. The good news is theres no real damage to the top end so I will assume is has some life left. To anyone watching this for the 3vze work I posted it in a new thread. Too much new...

Recently as in, in the last year, the top end on my 3vze was taken to a machine shop and surfaced by the PO's. Not to say they did a s***ty job but I have had to redo every single other fix theyve done since buying this 4runner in april/may. It was pretty clear when buying it but mostly a...

If I'm reading all the right materials, ORS provides brackets and conversion wiring harnesses to swap basically any setup from 3.0 to 3.4 including automatics. I have a working A340H automatic transmission so it seems I would be looking for a healthy 3.4 from 95 to 98 because it lets me keep my...

Is it worth keeping my a340h or going manual for the hell of it. Manual swapping at the same time means more work and money but if the 3.4 will work directly with the a340h this would be a much more enticing swap

I'm conflicted. Just finished timing job and intake up refresh on my 89 4runner v6. Got it to the point where it ran as well as an automatic 3.slow will feasibly run. In the short time it's been functioning since I bought it (only the last month since i bought in april/may) it created a loud...

Never updated this thread, life's been keeping me busy. Distributor fixed all issues, went with the new cardone unit because I don't care to search for an original denso and lifetime warranty from Oreillys will no doubt come in handy some day. Works well and stays running through warming up...

God yeah, didn't expect to need to learn this much about a 235k plus mile 3vze this early into ownership. Haven't even had it long enough for an oil change. It's not a fun motor to work on but at least reliable once the laundry list of neglect based problems is cut down a bit.