a bit more progress today, my dad has off work on Thursday or Friday so something will happen then. Kinda crazy how different these trucks can look with 30 minutes of front-end disassembly
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Here's the liquid filled motor mounts I got,
@Dougal recommended I try to make it work with the OEM 3B mounts cause they are meant to withstand the engine's vibrations for decades while the liquid-filled mounts aren't as sturdy but OEM 3B motor mounts are $190 for 1... Dont have the money for that at the moment, especially while these go for $45 each. If it means I'll have to replace them every 75k miles, so be it.
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Something else I was worried about was trying to figure out a throwout bearing to use as the stock isuzu setup is pretty funky... well turns out the inner diameter of the toyota (on the right) and isuzu (on the left) are exactly the same! 34.8mm, what are the odds? I don't know but that's pretty awesome.
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Yes, multiple reasons wouldn't allow to use the 3B bellhousing to the Isuzu engine, mainly the clutch and pressure plate were just too big from the Isuzu engine to fit within the Toyota bellhousing, also just the length of everything would have been hard to match up. Just putting a plate between the Isuzu bell housing and Toyota transmission to adapt the 2 is much simpler, cheaper, and you can use the adapter plate (1 in. thick) to make up space due tp the input shaft being too long with using the isuzu engine/bellhousing combo.
After I finish the swap as a whole I plan on making a thread explaining what I did in detailing and attaching all the files, measurements, and everything else I had to do to make it work. Dont want to start publishing if something doesn't end up working out and then confusing someone trying to do the same in the future.
Thanks for this heads up, never heard of it before. The h55 is being used for this. The 12HT power specs are pretty similar to the 4BD1T so this is a bit concerning. The thread that's been linked confuses me a bit just cause I have really never dealt with any internal transmission issues so I'm not exactly familiar with what he is referencing. My whole plan with this swap was to keep everything as reasonably stock as possible... yea an isuzu engine is being swapped in but I didn't want to have to move the transmission around/cut or lengthen driveshafts, modify anything else in the driveline, etc etc so I'd prefer to not have to do this.
Does anyone have other thoughts on this topic? I'd like to get as many points of view as possible.
Here's how the Red Rocket lays now, awaiting surgery
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