I thought id start a thread on here in case my limited knowledge helps someone down the road. Ill start with a little background on my rig and lead into the swap info:
I purchased this truck in September of 2024. I found it locally in Austin TX from a coworker's husband who owned it for the last 22 years (only driven 40k miles in 22 years but had 171k on the odometer). The previous owner had a binder of receipts for all the service it in its life and was truly a rust free truck. Even the C-Channels look brand new which was crazy. I had looked at several different 60 series over the years but they were all too rough for the asking price. The truck came with an OME lift, ARB front bumper, and custom rear swingout.
One of the first things I did was scrape the roof rain channel clean down to bare metal and re-sealed it with 3m seam sealer and had the roof repainted. The old seam sealer was old and cracking but luckily had been garage kept so no rust issues were noted. I also baselined all the fluids, found a radiator leak, replaced that along with all the rad hoses. Desmogged it, changed plugs, wires, cap, and rotor. The plan was to drive it as is for a few years to determine next steps. I always intended on motor swapping it, just had hoped to get more miles out of the stock 3fe. But so far so good, no major issues and had been pretty reliable driving around town. I decided this would be my new daily driver as it put a smile on my face everywhere I drove it.
I purchased this truck in September of 2024. I found it locally in Austin TX from a coworker's husband who owned it for the last 22 years (only driven 40k miles in 22 years but had 171k on the odometer). The previous owner had a binder of receipts for all the service it in its life and was truly a rust free truck. Even the C-Channels look brand new which was crazy. I had looked at several different 60 series over the years but they were all too rough for the asking price. The truck came with an OME lift, ARB front bumper, and custom rear swingout.
One of the first things I did was scrape the roof rain channel clean down to bare metal and re-sealed it with 3m seam sealer and had the roof repainted. The old seam sealer was old and cracking but luckily had been garage kept so no rust issues were noted. I also baselined all the fluids, found a radiator leak, replaced that along with all the rad hoses. Desmogged it, changed plugs, wires, cap, and rotor. The plan was to drive it as is for a few years to determine next steps. I always intended on motor swapping it, just had hoped to get more miles out of the stock 3fe. But so far so good, no major issues and had been pretty reliable driving around town. I decided this would be my new daily driver as it put a smile on my face everywhere I drove it.
