I have a 1988 DLX Toyota Pickup truck that needed a new engine and here is how i did it...
A little background...
I have had this truck for the last 10 years and 150,000 miles. I have always done my own maintenance on it and it has basically shown me the ropes when it comes to turning a wrench. I use the truck mainly now for going to the cabin and hunting. Wyoming has such rugged mountains that a weak truck just will not cut it. Here it is doing what it does every June...break trail. This is what I usually have to plow through to get to the cabin.
Here it is on the road to the little shack as I call it.
Well one day I was up cutting down trees, due to all the pine beetle, when the truck started to have a knocking sound. The sound of death for a motor. I limped it back to my "workshop in the hills", which is nothing more that just a big tool shed. I took off the valve cover and checked the valves and the timing chain. Both were fine so I knew it was in the bottom end. I parked it and hitched a ride home with a friendly neighbor.
I went back and forth about what to do with the truck. I did not know if I should sell it or if I should drop a new motor in. I started to do some research and came across 22REPreformance or Putney's machine. I called them up and asked a few questions. I wanted a block that did not need boring or a crank that needed to be turned. I wanted to run OEM rotating assembly components. They said if Toyota could get them, they could do it. So I called up my Toyota parts guy and told him to get searching. I also just went with Putney’s performance head and their high flow rocker arms. One week later I had received brand new pistons, rings, bearings, etc. I shipped them off to Putney's and 8 weeks later this is what showed up on my door step.
Two weeks later I told the
to go see her mom and I was ready for action. I rolled the truck in about 4:00
I proceeded to start prepping it for removal
By 10:00 it was 90% ready for removal the next day. The next morning I had to get the tranny bolts out and lift it out. By 11:00 it was out!
Then I had to move everything over to the new engine and install the new clutch. A few pictures:
Here is a picture of the RTV on the oil pan. No leaks here...
Here are some pictures of the new engine with the accessories on
By 6:00 Saturday evening the engine was back in the truck. It went so much faster than I imagined it would for my 1st engine swap.
Here is some pictures of it getting hooked back up and finished.
Well I had it finished by 2:30 Sunday afternoon. I used straight 30-weight oil with a bottle of a zinc additive for the first 100 miles. Then I went with 10w-30 for the next 500 & 1000 miles. Since the initial break in, I have been going 3,000 miles between changes. Around 10,000 miles I will change to Mobil 1, just to see how it lasts verses an engine that used conventional all it's life.
Right now I have 5,000 miles on the motor with no problems what- so- ever. My biggest pet peev is leaks, and so far there has been none. The motor runs strong and can pull hills a full gear higher then I use to. I have no idea what the hp is, but I do know it is more than the old tired engine. The biggest difference I notice with it is how quite it is. It's not like the other 22RE's I use to, they all sound like a sewing machine. I guess it's because of the extra oiling holes in the rocker arms.
I used it all summer long going to the cabin and took it hunting this fall before the snow got really deep. And no, I did not get anything...didn't even see one. The snow just came in to early this year.
So that is it. I welcome any and all comments...criticism is good, so don't be shy.
Discussion???
A little background...
I have had this truck for the last 10 years and 150,000 miles. I have always done my own maintenance on it and it has basically shown me the ropes when it comes to turning a wrench. I use the truck mainly now for going to the cabin and hunting. Wyoming has such rugged mountains that a weak truck just will not cut it. Here it is doing what it does every June...break trail. This is what I usually have to plow through to get to the cabin.
Here it is on the road to the little shack as I call it.
Well one day I was up cutting down trees, due to all the pine beetle, when the truck started to have a knocking sound. The sound of death for a motor. I limped it back to my "workshop in the hills", which is nothing more that just a big tool shed. I took off the valve cover and checked the valves and the timing chain. Both were fine so I knew it was in the bottom end. I parked it and hitched a ride home with a friendly neighbor.
I went back and forth about what to do with the truck. I did not know if I should sell it or if I should drop a new motor in. I started to do some research and came across 22REPreformance or Putney's machine. I called them up and asked a few questions. I wanted a block that did not need boring or a crank that needed to be turned. I wanted to run OEM rotating assembly components. They said if Toyota could get them, they could do it. So I called up my Toyota parts guy and told him to get searching. I also just went with Putney’s performance head and their high flow rocker arms. One week later I had received brand new pistons, rings, bearings, etc. I shipped them off to Putney's and 8 weeks later this is what showed up on my door step.
Two weeks later I told the
to go see her mom and I was ready for action. I rolled the truck in about 4:00
I proceeded to start prepping it for removal
By 10:00 it was 90% ready for removal the next day. The next morning I had to get the tranny bolts out and lift it out. By 11:00 it was out!
Then I had to move everything over to the new engine and install the new clutch. A few pictures:
Here is a picture of the RTV on the oil pan. No leaks here...
Here are some pictures of the new engine with the accessories on
By 6:00 Saturday evening the engine was back in the truck. It went so much faster than I imagined it would for my 1st engine swap.
Here is some pictures of it getting hooked back up and finished.
Well I had it finished by 2:30 Sunday afternoon. I used straight 30-weight oil with a bottle of a zinc additive for the first 100 miles. Then I went with 10w-30 for the next 500 & 1000 miles. Since the initial break in, I have been going 3,000 miles between changes. Around 10,000 miles I will change to Mobil 1, just to see how it lasts verses an engine that used conventional all it's life.
Right now I have 5,000 miles on the motor with no problems what- so- ever. My biggest pet peev is leaks, and so far there has been none. The motor runs strong and can pull hills a full gear higher then I use to. I have no idea what the hp is, but I do know it is more than the old tired engine. The biggest difference I notice with it is how quite it is. It's not like the other 22RE's I use to, they all sound like a sewing machine. I guess it's because of the extra oiling holes in the rocker arms.
I used it all summer long going to the cabin and took it hunting this fall before the snow got really deep. And no, I did not get anything...didn't even see one. The snow just came in to early this year.
So that is it. I welcome any and all comments...criticism is good, so don't be shy.
Discussion???
