maxigaz
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Of course it is gonna be shorter, but still will be longer than a normal tacoma cab. I did not want to touch the factory seatbelt mountings, so it pretty much determined the rear wall location. I had and have to do lots of measurements.
Long time, no post. I had a surgery two weeks ago, but still did some job. 4door cab here we come. I managed to cut the body half. Originally i wanted to use rear door to close the cab behind the second row seats. Unfortunately the shape of the door would make that job very complicated, so went to the junkyard again and get a rear wall of the tacoma i got the frame out of. I looked at the t100 and earlier pickups too, but of course this was the closest in size. I got some brackets too for the frame.
I cut the body a bit longer what i needed.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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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