So guys, I have some questions about possibly doing the conversion. Recently I had a complete oil failure while driving my LX and word back (through my dad) is that the engine is completely blown up. So, my dad suggested we look into putting a V8 into it since the opportunity for a new engine presents itself. How hard is this to do and what else am I going to have to do besides the obvious?
So guys, I have some questions about possibly doing the conversion. Recently I had a complete oil failure while driving my LX and word back (through my dad) is that the engine is completely blown up. So, my dad suggested we look into putting a V8 into it since the opportunity for a new engine presents itself. How hard is this to do and what else am I going to have to do besides the obvious?
Till you do though, here are a few starting points:
1. PM both Kirk and Waggoner--both have done this to 80 series (as well as Jeff Jones, though I don't know if he is on MUD).
2. You need cash--lots of it.
3. You need to make some decisions: are you going to keep stock tranny/xfer case? Are you going to go diesel or petrol? Are you going to stay Toyota or go GM, etc.?
4. You need lots of cash....
5. You need lots of cash (and a good buddy who happens to be a metal fabricator).
That is all I ahve been informed of so far. Just that I had a complete oil failure. The mechanic is working to find out what caused it and Ill let you guys know as soon as I know.
That is all I ahve been informed of so far. Just that I had a complete oil failure. The mechanic is working to find out what caused it and Ill let you guys know as soon as I know.
-B-, is your memory slipping? Capocaccia posted a couple of months ago that his oil pressure gauge, as far back as he can remember, has always been at 0, and that his engine sounded like a diesel.
-B-, is your memory slipping? Capocaccia posted a couple of months ago that his oil pressure gauge, as far back as he can remember, has always been at 0, and that his engine sounded like a diesel.
Geez Rich, that seems like a loooooong time ago. I thought this was something that happened recently.
Later.... OK Rich, I searched.
It was in psj1945's thread. psj1945 was the guy that reported back in June 2006 that his truck started sounding like a diesel after he drove through a water puddle. Capocaccia posted in the same thread on June 11th about low oil pressure and diesel sounds. He also posted about low oil pressure in these two threads that he started. July 19th, and August 9th.
It appears that he has driven the truck with ZERO oil pressure since June so it's no wonder that it needs a new engine.
-B-, is your memory slipping? Capocaccia posted a couple of months ago that his oil pressure gauge, as far back as he can remember, has always been at 0, and that his engine sounded like a diesel.
That was forever ago and the problem was fixed immediately and the engine had no troubles. It was actually getting oil the gauge just was not reading it. Also, the diesel sound I was referring to was an exhaust leak that gave me a diesel like click and at the time of the break down all gauges read normal. Oil pressure, oil level and temp were all reading well. Im sorry I cant hold up to a master mechanics standards of recognizing every problem and symptom of a problem as soon as they occur but I try my best. Theres no need for assumptions of me having no oil pressure since then. Obviously I recognized it was a problem and had it corrected.
OK, but you reported no oil pressure in June, then again in July, and then again in August, and now (mid-Sept) you are reporting a dead engine due to a "complete oil failure."
I'm just repeating what I am reading and what you are posting.
Based on your post below perhaps you can appreciate that you communicated otherwise.
Capocaccia said:
Ive been running my rig for over 2k miles with 0 oil pressure. So Im guessing for me its probably more of a gauge problem than an actual pressure problem.
