New here, and I want to share my find.

A guy told me about this truck for sale, so being the Toyota enthusiast I am I had to go check it out. I thought it was gonna be a beater, but to my suprise it wasn't bad, and it had a 22re. I wanted it and the rest is history.

I guess the only catch is it had water mixed with the oil, and the guy told me it had been sitting for two years like that. He thought it was a blown head gasket or cracked head.

I wanted to see if it would fire up so we drained the oil and yuck, it had the color and consistency of a chocolate milkshake. After seeing that we dropped the oil pan to clean it up.

And what did we find, good ol' timing chain guides. So then I suspected the chain has worn through the water jacket in the timing cover thus allowing the mixing of the coolant and the oil.

So we slapped the oil pan back on and filled it oil and drained the remaining coolant. Then we tried to fire it up, but it wasn't getting fuel. After pulling the bed, replacing the fuel pump, and trying the switch one more time, it fired up and just purred.

It ran good, had no smoking, just that dreadful sound of the timing chain slapping the cover.

We tore the engine's face off and I found some nice grooves wore into the cover with a crack in the bottom of the groove.

I am currently waiting on my timing set and cover I ordered from engnbldr.

Well onto the pics I suppose.



Hopefully my ride height soon.


I'll get some pics of the timing set and cover install when the time comes.

 

wow that's beautiful, pretty much my truck, in blue.


did someone photoshopp the last pic?

 

Thanks and yeah, I put "Hopefully my ride height soon" on there. Though that much of a static drop may be a little ambitious.

 

my truck is just as low.

BJ Flip, loosened torsions (resting on bumpstops), 3" drop blocks, removed mid leaf, c-notch.

i still have my hubcaps in the garage

 

You're probably the person to ask, Can you use drop arms, spindles, and ball joint relocation to get that huge drop without loosening tortion bars?

 

nice find mate, my all time fav of the hilux pickups. and also what i drive.

 

you definitely can. I think the drop arms and spindles themselves would get you pretty far.


you'll get to a point that the fender wells will make contact with the tire.
Using a hammer to provide clearance is what you will end up doing. but to go even lower, you will have to cut your fender wells, or cut, and weld them higher (tubbing basically)

 

I measured the distance between my tire and inner fender today. Its only 5 inches at the most. My tire size is 215/75-r14, so I guess a 4 inch drop up front would be pushin it if I don't modify the inners or get a smaller tire.

I really wanted my front crossmember to be about 2 inches off the ground.

 

Nice. The easy way is to grab lower profile tires.
I think a 205(215)/55/15 should help a bit.
That should get you closer to your goal.

 

Well welcome to TM and nice truck. Ya im trying to go that low to but im running about the same size tire and when i had it that low they rubbed the fender wells.

 

looks clean, nice find dogg.

 

Awesome find for $500! I was looking a xtra cab for the longest time but settled for a single cab. Whats up with 4x4 in the back?

 

Thanks guys, and yeah for anyone who wants the story of what happened to the 93 4x4 I've got that posted in another forum, in a build thread of my 93 Chevy truck, bagging it. Heres the link,
http://www.fullsizechevy.com/showthread.php?428729-OBS-RCSB-Bags-and-Stuff. Page 2

Here's the 4x4 in its glory days.







Got to use that radiator for 2 weeks

 

I'm so disappointed right now. I had some really nice pics of my new timing set install. While moving the files around to upload, I deleted them.

Oh well I'll get some shots of the old worn out stuff later and post them.

Good news is I got it all put back together and its running great. It hasn't mixed any oil and water yet. I ran it around for about an hour and a half, and the radiator is leaking at the top seam. So I'll have to take care of that.

Im gonna give the truck a good cleaning tomorrow. I think it deserves that now.

 

nice! just glad you've been making good progress here and there. Man, two Yota's = 2x the fun!

 

Nice, Ya she does deserve a good bath after all the hard work she has been doing. Whats next?

 

It took almost all day. Took the bed liner out cleaned the bed and the liner, washed and buffed the whole truck, then waxed it. I have to give credit to my Dad for helping me out with the timing chain install and cleaning the interior.

As for whats next I got to see about getting the radiator repaired or just get a new one. Then I think I'll throw in some blocks and relieve the torsion bars, and get some new shocks.

 

NICE! major difference indeed
I need to wax mine

 

Good solid start right there. My advise is just ditch the stock wheels. You can usually save money by getting some used wheels. Either stock take-offs or aftermarkets. Don't matter. Find some that have good dimentions of about 30-40mm offset and a tire height of about 24" A little less is okay. Or if staggered, the fronts that size. These trucks can get pretty damn low if you don't mind hammering the inners a lot, and rolling the fenders to turn.

Anyways, buying a new set of wheels and selling your old ones that look pretty good shape...should equal less overall cost than buying different tires and having them put onto your wheels.

 

24 front 26 rear
just because
or 25 rear