Saturday, May 15, 2010



So the problem was the engine had to be turned almost vertical, but of course i could not lift high enough and the rad support was in the way. To solve the problem i hooked up a hand winch to pull the rear end of the tranny upward and level to whole thing, but i couldn't do it fully because the chain hanging front of the engine wasn't letting to do that.I wish i would have an engine leveler. Funny enough it was on sale on the next morning so i bought one immediately. Anyway i pulled it out, I damaged the top of the rad support a bit but nothing serious.



So, finally i got the 3.4 engine out of the 4runner.It was not easy.
Remove the radiator, driveshafts, sway bar, steering rack and pinion. Than- in order to get to the engine mount bolts on the front- i took off the A/C pump, steering pump and the alternator on the other side.I disconnected the exhaust pipe and removed the starter (It was extremely hard due to lack of room). Now i was able to remove the rear bolts. After this i put a hydraulic jack under the tranny and one under the T-case, removed the crossbar holding the tranny and slowly lowered the jacks. I tilted the whole thing backward to have room to remove the top bolts of the T-case. I was not sure if it would come out in one piece with the engine and tranny. I still had doubt how i gonna pull this out.(Oh yeah and of course there was a few connections, wires and vacuum hoses to disconnect. I tried to do only stuff related to the engine and tranny. The ECU wires were pretty straight forward too. I removed the glovebox and the black plastic cover. Disconnect three out of the four plugs and pulled them out via the hole on the firewall.

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