Hey nice truck love the color and the weld wheels. I wanted to know how you flipped your balljoints when you lowered it? I want to lower mine more but don't want to have bad camber...

 

Welcome! make a intro thread sometime whenever you're open. its nice to see a fellow xcab.

Here's some pics of a flipped B/j




what you basically accomplish is placing the spindle above the arms.

 

Cleaned up the motor today and did a quick polish of the valve cover:




I need get the correct water pump and a gasket for the egr blockoff plate at the back of the head. After that I just need to wait for my clutch and flywheel to come in and then it's ready to go.

 

man i love the look of the old valve covers over the new ones. motor looks great man!

 

Swapped in the new motor today. Only got a couple pictures since I got really dirty. Did a lot of cleaning until I ran out of Simple Green. It also took a little longer than usual because I had to swap oil pans and pickup tubes between the two motors (2wd vs. 4wd). I found pretty much a whole set of plastic timing chain guides in the oil pan of the motor that came out of my truck, as well as some random bits of metal that I could not identify.

p.s. I know I forgot the dust shield in the pictures, it's on now.

LC 9lb billet aluminum flywheel

I can't remember where I had heard of the trick to get the pilot bearing out using grease and a punch, but I tried it and it worked.

LC pro clutch kit

I had to put the truck on the ramps because the front wheels of my engine hoist couldn't fit under my crossmemeber.

The engine is all bolted in place right now so all the hard work is done. I stopped working because it was getting a little too late to use air tools. All I need to do now is bolt up the manifolds and radiator and go get some fluids. I should have more pictures tomorrow.

 

nice build...
cant wait to hear what it sounds like
what part of hawaii you from???

 

I can't wait to hear it also. My other motor sounded pretty nuts already.
I'm on Kauai.

 

so low he cant swap motors x D

 

Got everything back together and started it up yesterday.

Kinda looks the same as before, just a little bit cleaner. I do see some dirty spots I missed though. Before I bolted the exhaust back up I got a quick video clip, but I'm having trouble logging in to Youtube and uploading the video. I'll try again later. This motor revs really fast, especially with the light flywheel. I just need to adjust valves, carbs, and timing and then it's good to go.

 

nice job man....... just curious but where did you hook up your vaccume adv/ret from your dist?

 

Thanks. How's your truck coming along? There is a small vacuum port on the #1 intake runner for the distributor advance.

 

Very nice build!!! I'm digging it!

 

^ That's nice to hear, especially from a guy with a super clean turbo tacoma. Thanks!

 

im jealous of your motor :]

 

Got a new toy to play with.



Sample video:


Low quality so it would upload faster. I accidently turned the camera off on my first run so I only have this short clip. I was mostly just trying to get a feel for how the camera worked anyway. I'll try and get more footage later.

 

GoPro cams ftw!

those lens are nice on those small cameras, its amazing how they can capture alot!

the wide captures more than what my camera can (24mm lawl)

 

wow, your motor setup is sickk. do you already have gearings?

 

sweet camera rig. its gorgeous over there. and you shift like its a diesel compared to how i drive mine. lol. i need to do a camera rig and make some videos.

 

Gearing is stock. I shift when the belt squeaks, lol. I have an electric fan I need to swap in later.

 

Lol, I hope you intend to make a write up DIY for the fans too!