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Big Mike, I first must say I love your quote on common sense! If not for that how would anyone survive this life! Unfortunitly for those of us with more than an average excercised amount of this. Its just not enough at certain times and no matter the amounts we dig for needed knowledge its not there.Point in case toyota engines and in particular the 22RE. As I'd found out when ever we dont excercise ours to the fullest extent due to the fact we figure others surely would in what we had bought so we wouldnt need work alot harder still.My case in point is the naby vacuum lines running amuck on the stock injection all maddness complicated by the fact the only diagram to be found! Wont sure as hell be in that manual we paid bug bucks for but more uderneth our now old and god only knows what in time besides the fact ink wasnt intended to survive any such durations of heat and water and batter explossions no less! And so when you will need it you wont find it!Along in any of the most important of any internal combustion engine and its oiling paths galleys plugs or anything other than the damned filter at best!And more if one were to use there common sense only at night time and when frustrated to hell by all the damned plugs in electrcial maddness made worse still in the act of god it will take most to ever figure out how that damned plug should ever come apart as its sole intention was no doubt!And so dont ever do what I had and cut the basturd off throwing it into the darkness of night! And worse into the now longer growing pile of trash created by the lack of what you had in two days pickup now cut to one for some recycling crap?So as you build that truck and buy alot of the many but not all that we must have and others will like. My trash pile grow to an enormous and long 25 feet long by three feet wide! Coverd by any old tarps that used to give me and my rig cover from sun and rain as I worked diligently day and night year after year no less and all more trying in vein to get one of four engines to roar and stay that way as one after the other all went to the way side due to some form of problem that wasnt ever clear to me other than they all died from that one same thing! Some form of oil starvation! And or in the first and last of that third!Being that I didnt buy or ues the more expensive factory diaprhamed oil filters which were the only ones that held an oil charge if at all. So everytime your engines started it starts dry and why?Due to some idiots worse idea in how to mount any oil filter and also never had to change it at all not to mention as often as we do as we use ours out in dry and dirty enviroment just as Id thought was the very reason why we bought them to begin with!! And then to add insult to a real lack of anything sort of pure uncare and plain stupidity!I stood before the owner and head engine builder of this so called engine shop? Telling them why I wanted to build my own this time only that I lacked the hands on working knowledge of building not only one of these engines but any complete fourstroke from an oil pan up period.As Id toren down my big block ford in my flatbottom v-drive boat amoungest many other things done to it and many many a motorcycle including even learning computer and engine building on software designed by dragracers for them and the general public when it came out many years ago and is within 2% of a dyno when good numbers are used. And they were as both my harleys FLY! As the Hp went up by an amazing 1/3 for argument sake. Only felt like double for the real truth.And exactly where along in talking to many with alot more knowledge about engines than I will ever have! About strokes and porting and so forth. This and one very important fact! When tested in highschool and with zero working knowledge. I scored higher than all the rest at least in the first two years of highschool thats all I was told. But then you werent tested later!And what I scaored higher in was mechanics no less with electronics being my 2nd but not higher than all scores. Did I care about that? Hell no as all I could think of was that was the very last thing Id ever care to do for a living. But like it then or not this was and is the whole truth! Due to some strange reason? I seemed to be drawn into the engine world and liking it alot more than even realizing that I was doing that period.Why simple I did enjoy it and still do very much so! Just as we dont know one another at all.But from your photo its plain to see your a nice guy and one who enjoys himself and that is most likely good at what he does as a result! And again in what Ive seen as to your own build up tells me more. As does your living as a mechanic no doubt and then part time at your Im guessing fathers great business and another man who knows right from wrongs and is one smart cookie no doubt! As he is also real fiar and not at all greedy!And just as Id like to think that if we met each other some day would most likely get along well. Just as anyone who would know as anyone who had taken on what you certainly have in your trucks to date. Should appreciate the balls and knowledge that will certainly require!As I for one had no real knowledge ok just bigger balls and alot of pure common sense. And thats not at all enough when we tear into an entire truck like we have! As to date the only things Ive not taken apart are the transmission god bless and the transfercase which doesnt frieighten me as much or like an engine should have? But what can be said is how much I now know as a direct result and over by and large most except the top in performance is about all that Ive found.However if we are humble we also realize theres other general things which untill challenged we wont know ether as we never had to untill its called upon.And now and for me that would be without any question the oiling system on these engines!!As Im ready to put fire to the beast but first need oil pressure! And that Im not seeing no matter how hard I try or want to cry and get pissed!But I do know for a hard fact the pil galley plugs in the front and back are in there proper homes. And that my oil pickup tube and its screen are free clean and open as is the gasket between the flange on the pickup tube and the bottom of the block! As well the oil pump even not brand new isnt but a slightly used housing at best! And when I used a feeler guage as per manual its all far within its limitations. To the very point it may as well be brand new!PRV dont know as all I can say is its clean period.Id packed the pump twice as told by those in the real know. Only to find that did zero if anything and so theres a leak some place? And every bolt hole Ive checked is dry and appears a dead end and hole.So can you tell me what you know.Thank you and if I can be of any help at all I will sure try.Thanks Mike a friend nether of us has met.Randy
And more if one were to use there common sense only at night time and when frustrated to hell by all the damned plugs in electrcial maddness made worse still in the act of god it will take most to ever figure out how that damned plug should ever come apart as its sole intention was no doubt!
Coverd by any old tarps that used to give me and my rig cover from sun and rain as I worked diligently day and night year after year no less and all more trying in vein to get one of four engines to roar and stay that way as one after the other all went to the way side due to some form of problem that wasnt ever clear to me other than they all died from that one same thing! Some form of oil starvation! And or in the first and last of that third!
But what can be said is how much I now know as a direct result and over by and large most except the top in performance is about all that Ive found
Just as anyone who would know as anyone who had taken on what you certainly have in your trucks to date.
As I for one had no real knowledge ok just bigger balls and alot of pure common sense.
Hi mike, this is a sweet project. Anyways...I have an '81 SR5 that i recently picked up a set of OEM Chevy avalance 17's for. and was wondering what the shop would charge to bore them for me, I'd like to have all four done, but could live with two, deepending on the price. Could you possibly give me a price? Thanks, SJC
but man, the 3RZ IS AWESOME.
My Spring Break is next week, and during it, I hope to:1) Bob my Bed2) Build and Install Pivot Blocks3) Start on a New Crossmember, like the one on our Formula Toy.4) Get a rear bumper.
Wha wha what? Is this common? So I'm not the first one that has thought of this? What are your plans for this? I thought of doing something that sounds similar, except pivoting perches. I got two 7"x 1.5" shank grade 8 bolts with matching nylocs and two pcs of 1.5" IDx 3/8" thick DOM tubing I am going to put together to make these. I'll cut 1.5" off each end of the tubing to make a swivel. Then I'll weld the ends to the perch I have now, and the center to a new base plate I'll make out of 3/8" x 5" flat bar. Then I'll sandwich the spring pack with a top plate made of the same material. Add some grease zerks and, woila, pivots. I figure that is the way to go, rather than JJ's. With JJ, I hear they are a PITA to install and even worse on the trail. Plus you have to run two to get the same effect. With a pivoting perch, it only affects one point, and is beefy strong too. Easy to make, easy to install, east to maintain. Works for me! Is this the same type of idea? Or do you have something else in mind? Syn
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