I Bought an LX with a Blown Engine... (1 Viewer)

[Skitz]

Found this 02 LX470 on the good'ol Facebooks... One of those nights I happen to catch the posting as soon as it was listed and called the guy 5 minutes later with a deposit...

LOONNNG Story short..... This LX had a blown engine and was completely in pieces... Someone/shop had attempted to do an engine swap and couldn't get it right...

Clean body, no rust, interior needs some love, and the engine was in pieces.... $3500 later its on the trailer...

Here I was testing the ECU/electronics but you can see the engine was gutted and there was a pile of parts in the back of the LX...

 

[Skitz]

Unfortunately, my garage was already tied up with my repairing my 40 and finalizing my 2uz 80 swap… I didn’t have the space to work on this LX…

SOOO… I reached out the local Cruiser Community for help here in North Bama...

Thankfully @RocketCityCrzrs opened his shop space to me and the Hot South Cruisers guys volunteered to help wrench, break chit, and drink my beer…

On this day we pulled the engine….

Ded Engine getting added to my parts pile....

 

[Skitz]

The hunt for an engine was found in the Tennessee Valley...

The guy said just come pull the engine out out of the truck... Easiest engine pull EVA!!!

Once I got back to the shop, I did a full tear down/maintenance of the 2uz....

 

[excessive]

nice work! you sure do work quick. a project like that would take me months!

 

[Skitz]

On this day we did the install and startup!


First Engine Start !!

 

[Skitz]

Once I got it home... I got working on all the little things.... AC/ Tires / Clean up.....

Running driving and everything works....

Of course now the wife has claimed ownership!!

 

[aging fleet]

Awesome you have such an active club in your area to help out (that beer wouldn't have drank itself). The new motor sounds great, congrats on getting it running. Your wife wasn't a fan of the KO2s and 16s?

 

[Skitz]

Much thanks to the Rocket City Cruisers and the Hot South Club!!

They all helped pull this truck together!

 

[Skitz]

Awesome you have such an active club in your area to help out (that beer wouldn't have drank itself). The new motor sounds great, congrats on getting it running. Your wife wasn't a fan of the KO2s and 16s?

Thanks! Yeah, there is a great cruiser community here....

Those KO2s were about 11 years old and sketchy... but no she wanted a grocery getter and long road tripper for this LX...

 

[RocketCityCrzrs]

Always happy to drink beer and share my lift.

 

[MongooseGA]

Awesome deal and I love how the locals all piled in to help. Did I spot Hunter in a few of those pics?

 

[Columbo624]

Nice. Now I'm curious what's goin on with that frame in TN. Feels like there's a story there.

 

[Skitz]

Awesome deal and I love how the locals all piled in to help. Did I spot Hunter in a few of those pics?

Yep that is Hunter!

 

[Skitz]

Nice. Now I'm curious what's goin on with that frame in TN. Feels like there's a story there.

That truck was in a wreck and being parted out.. Luckily no one was injured and I was able to grab the engine...

 

[tone33]

Nice. Now I'm curious what's goin on with that frame in TN. Feels like there's a story there.

That was my truck. Unfortunately the frame, along w most of the rest of the body went to the recycler . I was storing at a friend's place and got short notice to get it out. I did grind off those sliders though and plan to put on my lx470.

 

[tone33]

Nice to see your rig come together George! Glad my old 2uz gets to live to see some more action!

 

[BnvS]

That was my truck. Unfortunately the frame, along w most of the rest of the body went to the recycler . I was storing at a friend's place and got short notice to get it out. I did grind off those sliders though and plan to put on my lx470.

Dang.. a frame that clean (enough) when to the recycler.. dang.. thats is unfortunate..they would be like 50 mudders from the North killing for a frame that clean....

 

[2001LC]

Sweet! Great find on the engine. Nice to see resurrection project come together.

 

[tone33]

Dang.. a frame that clean (enough) when to the recycler.. dang.. thats is unfortunate..they would be like 50 mudders from the North killing for a frame that clean....

I know it… I woulda kept it if I could.