Excited to see the excessive engine refresh
Saving a 98 Locked Landcruiser from the scrapyard (5 Viewers)
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Starting to go through and refresh the "new" engine. It was told it had 160k miles on it, so I was very happy to see how clean it was inside. I do believe this is a very low mileage engine! which is awesome. Here are the plans for it:
- Valve Cover Gaskets, Spark plug tube gaskets
- New Spark Plugs
- R & R Intake Manifold
- Replace Starter (much easier to do w/ engine out!)
- Clean injectors , new injector seals
- Replace any damaged or worn connectors on the wiring harness, i know the knock sensor connectors are going to break
- Timing belt / Water pump / Front Crankshaft Seal / Rear main seal
- Check all accessories, replace bearings if needed
- replace all cooling hoses , Thermostat, coolant gaskets, and vacuum lines
- Maybe.... replace exhaust manifolds as preventative maintenance
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new rear main seal, why not while I'm in there ?? Timing Belt is next .....
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They look cleaned-up and painted.
Painted? Interesting thought, I thought they looked like they were media blasted. We'll have to wait to see what the answer to the question turns out to be. They do look fantastic I have to say.
Looked back at the pictures again, definately painted.
Are you going to replace the oil pump O-ring? If so Isn’t there one in the rear as well?
Such a big project, looks great so far.
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I admit I am not the best at giving timely updates or responses, but I appreciate all the great comments! Yes, the valve covers are poor-man vapor blasted... which is just a scotch-brite pad, then sprayed down the brakeclean, and then rattle canned. I think they turned out pretty darn good!
While I haven't been busy updating my build thread, I have been busy working on my "new" engine.
While the engine is out, I want to take care of as may possible issues that are "while you're in there". I don't want to ever have to take this engine out again or do any major repairs for another 20 years. so here goes:
Timing belt done ( used AISIN kit)
Starter done ( refreshed it inside with all OEM parts)
While the timing belt was out, I did the Oil pump. The main reason I had to do the oil pump was because the bottom alternator bolt broke off in the Oil pump housing, and I tried for hours to extract it unsuccessfully. Then I looked at the price of a new AISIN oil pump was under $100, and i just decided to go ahead and do a new oil pump. This also allowed me to re-seal the upper and lower oil pans.
While I haven't been busy updating my build thread, I have been busy working on my "new" engine.
While the engine is out, I want to take care of as may possible issues that are "while you're in there". I don't want to ever have to take this engine out again or do any major repairs for another 20 years. so here goes:
Timing belt done ( used AISIN kit)
Starter done ( refreshed it inside with all OEM parts)
While the timing belt was out, I did the Oil pump. The main reason I had to do the oil pump was because the bottom alternator bolt broke off in the Oil pump housing, and I tried for hours to extract it unsuccessfully. Then I looked at the price of a new AISIN oil pump was under $100, and i just decided to go ahead and do a new oil pump. This also allowed me to re-seal the upper and lower oil pans.
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Next I refreshed the intake manifold using my poor-man vapor blast method (also did the throttle body as well). Had injectors cleaned and flow-tested. All new OEM rubber pieces on everything in the intake manifold, all new OEM gaskets, etc.
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Refreshed the thermostat housing, new Thermostat, New OEM fan Bracket, refreshed the Alternator with new brushes, refreshed the Throttle body with all new OEM hoses and gaskets as well. The oil pans and timing belt are all back together, now the engine is starting to look more complete !
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Sorry it's been so long since I have updated this thread. I promise I am much better at working on cruisers than updating threads. But I've been very busy on the project, and it's coming along really nicely. The engine is getting the finishing touches before it gets dropped back in- hopefully for the last time ever. I did a lot of "While you're in there" items such as the timing belt, Exhaust Manifolds and of course new OEM gaskets. A new set of motor mounts is ready for the engine to land on
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A very important item to take care of before putting the engine back in is the Steering system. Due to the mileage on the chassis, the steering system was very tired out. I decided to bite the bullet and replace the entire steering system, except for the pump itself which is still working great. So it has gotten the following:
New OEM Toyota Rack
New OEM Cooler lines and reservoir
New OEM Outer Tie rods
New OEM vacuum lines for idle-up
Now with all that done, the motor is ready to drop in!
New OEM Toyota Rack
New OEM Cooler lines and reservoir
New OEM Outer Tie rods
New OEM vacuum lines for idle-up
Now with all that done, the motor is ready to drop in!
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Final preparations on the motor, and getting it connect back to the transmission. Here is the setup i used to get her back in . And after a full day of work, she is back in !!!!
Nicely done! She is coming along very well. While you're in there, look at the rest of the vac lines and replace as needed - mine also had a few with micro cracks in them and after replacement the idle is much smoother.
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thank you. I am replacing every single rubber item in the engine bay that is still available from Toyota. Literally every gasket in the engine is new, except the head gaskets. She should be good for another 200k miles
This is sick. Good work dude.
