Did I just blow my engine? (3 Viewers)

[Broski]

You can do it !!

 

[Damcowboy]

I thought I would post an update. I’ve been working on the new engine since July, when I have time. Almost ready to set the new engine on the engine mounts. Pretty nervous that it won’t run the first time cause I’ve screwed something up. I also know I didn’t take near enough pictures. Guys take as many pictures as you can at each stage, then take even more.

The new engine is in the foreground and the old engine in the background. Once the new engine is installed and running, I’ll rebuild the old block. I’m pretty sure it was just the cam bearings that spun, but I don’t know that definitively yet.

 

[60 toy ota]

great work, it looks pretty! I see your tranny cooler hanging by the soft lines as if you plan to reuse them. I would strongly recommend against this and suggest you replace all those transmission soft lines.

 

[60 toy ota]

duplicate

 

[Fj80oregon]

Nice work the tranny and t case look super clean! Make sure to dump some oil Down the oil filter inlet (to the left of the big brass screw/nut the filter screws onto) to help prime the pump! Also filling up the oil filter and screwing it on will help. Super excited for you to get that low mileage cruiser back on the road!

 

[Damcowboy]

Ok, likely final post in this thread (maybe). The new engine is in, runs great. I had to pull the injectors after the initial start up as I had pinched an O ring on the re-install and it leaked. I also had electrical issues with the headlights and horn, turns out sometime in the past an aftermarket alarm system was installed, I pulled that crap out and problems solved. So as of now it’s all done.

Thanks to FJ80Oregon for the new engine and the help along the way

As far as what was the initial cause of the failure, I don’t know for sure. Four of the 6 bearings on the old engine had spun, the other 2 were good. I don’t think it was the filter, the engine had been worked on in the past, my mechanic buddy thinks the previous owner knew there was an issue and dumped it before it blew. I probably will never know. I’ll rebuild the old engine, the crankshaft and block are not affected, so it will be an as new long block when I am done.

I’ll post a list of everything I replaced and where I got it for others reference. I pretty much replaced or rebuilt everything on the engine.

 

[77mustard40]

Congrats on that endeavor, on to 2025!

 

[Damcowboy]

great work, it looks pretty! I see your tranny cooler hanging by the soft lines as if you plan to reuse them. I would strongly recommend against this and suggest you replace all those transmission soft lines.

I literally replaced everything under the hood that was in any way a consumable including hoses, vac lines, the engine harness, spark plug wires, most of the sensors, and rebuilt/cleaned all the other attachments (alternator, starter, steering pump, injectors, radiator). I spent a ton of money on this, maybe $15,000 in parts including the engine, and I did all the removal and install work myself to save money and to learn how this thing worked. I have never done a swap before, but I did it and so can you. Take hundreds of pictures of everything you touch so you can put it back together again, and swap one item at a time from the old engine to the new with the 2 sitting side by side like in the picture above. Put all screws, nuts bolts, connectors in labelled zip lock bags, do not assume you will remember where something goes. I did the swap over 5 months off and on). I never would have bought the land Cruiser if I had known what I was in for. But now I basically have a brand new land Cruiser from the firewall forward so that's good. I shouldn't have to work on it again as long as I have it, whether that's 2 months or another 20 years.

Attached is the list of most of the parts I bought, not everything, and where I got them.

 

[Marvelicious]

I shouldn't have to work on it again as long as I have it, whether that's 2 months or another 20 years.

I'd make it another 20 years then... you probably can't get what you have into it back out of it, but you also can't buy a better rig for what you have into it!