I've learned a lot of stuff along the way about the truck and I expect to learn some more. We have a made a few mistakes and had to take some things back off, but that's part of the game. I would rather address our screw ups on the work table rather than in the truck. Not big issues, just that we kind of got ahead of ourselves a couple of times and had to backtrack. Overall I think we have made good progress considering that we have only worked on this for a couple of days and have spent a number of hours running back to the parts place or somewhere else looking for a bolt, parts, or whatever. Fastenal is a good source for hard to find metric stuff and all kinds of other stuff. We stopped by the local store and they have a good selection of "stuff". Considering that neither I nor my friend have any real experience with land cruiser mechanicals we've done all right in my view. I think this combination of GM V-8 with yota drive train will be a very good combination. I need to think about upgrading the front brake calipers while I'm at this point. It's going to be a good running "beast" when all is done. Everything looks pretty clean in the pics, we cleaned the TC case up pretty good and the associated likage, also cleaned up the used bellhousing and access panel I bought, along with the trans crossmember. My stock I-6 must have been leaking at the rear main for some time prior to my ownership. Once I decided to go with the V-8 swap, fixing the rear main on the I-6 was not important. Rather nasty at the rear bottom of the I-6. Whomever buys the I-6 should fix that first, while the engine is out of the vehicle.
