I 80yo neighbor has a 1988 Toyota 1 ton with the 22RE engine. His truck started to run like crap and the radiator sprung a leak in the middle of nowhere (Kettleman City, CA)so he poured 5 cans of radiator stop leak. He drove it home (Exeter, CA) and found that he blew the head gasket. He left it parked for about 6 months. I trailered it to the shop for him.
The garage pulled the head and found the engine is shot. Water had sat in the cylinders way to long and rusted the block. I bought a used engine from a pick and pull from a low milage rolled 87 pre runner. They put the newer engine in as well as a new clutch, pressure plate, water pump and almost all new gaskets and seals as well as installed a new radiator.
Now the new engine is leaking from the timing chain cover. It is not just leaking but pouring out. They did replace the harmonic balancer seal before they installed the engine.
It ran like poo so he put it on the Dyno. He found three error codes that he cannot get to go away. One is the NOX and one was the Air Mass Sensor. I forgot what the other one is. He replaced the air mass sensor and one error code went away. He has checked everything related to the other two error code and nothing is wrong with the components. Says the computer is bad. I called Toyota and found that one for an 88 is unique and is $1,300.
Right now I'm into this truck for $750.00 for the used engine plus $2,175 for the work that has already been done. It still needs to be torn back down and have the timing chain cover gasket replaced, $400 parts & labor.
Does anybody have a computer that they no longer need? Maybe one that you did a V-8 swap on?
The garage pulled the head and found the engine is shot. Water had sat in the cylinders way to long and rusted the block. I bought a used engine from a pick and pull from a low milage rolled 87 pre runner. They put the newer engine in as well as a new clutch, pressure plate, water pump and almost all new gaskets and seals as well as installed a new radiator.
Now the new engine is leaking from the timing chain cover. It is not just leaking but pouring out. They did replace the harmonic balancer seal before they installed the engine.
It ran like poo so he put it on the Dyno. He found three error codes that he cannot get to go away. One is the NOX and one was the Air Mass Sensor. I forgot what the other one is. He replaced the air mass sensor and one error code went away. He has checked everything related to the other two error code and nothing is wrong with the components. Says the computer is bad. I called Toyota and found that one for an 88 is unique and is $1,300.
Right now I'm into this truck for $750.00 for the used engine plus $2,175 for the work that has already been done. It still needs to be torn back down and have the timing chain cover gasket replaced, $400 parts & labor.
Does anybody have a computer that they no longer need? Maybe one that you did a V-8 swap on?
