84 4Runner Buildup - Last minute summer mods

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Thanks to my brother on Saturday 7/15, coming over and helping me out. We spent Saturday washing more parts in the solvent tank. We cleaned all the accessesory brackets, alt. , powersteering, engine braces, etc. and then I painted them. I bought some flat black for those, high temp aluminum color for the intake manifold, and some of the hard coolant lines, and ford grey for the block and oil pan.

The upper and lower intake manifold is getting carb dipped to get them completely clean. I also got the head back from my uncle. Looks good!

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Worked all weekend on the 4Runner with the pops.  We got quite a bit done but still no running engine 

Saturday 7-22-06
Back behined the solvent tank cleaning parts.  We painted the newly carb dipped intake manifold silver and painted the valve cover chevy orange     Block was painted new Ford grey. 

Sunday 7-23-06
Moved the 84 from the side of the house into the garage and moved the 85 parts truck out in the driveway.  We removed the three wiring harnesses from the 85, removed the 84 22R harness and put the EFI harnesses into the 84.  PITA!  I keep telling myself that this was easier than SAS'ing a newer 4Runner, probably not though.

Here's some pics


New Ford Grey.  Probably the only thing Ford on this Toyota, except for some rear Ford F-150 springs


Chevy Orange.  Probably the only thing Chevy on it.


Dash harness, PITA to remove


EFI vs. Carb dash wiring harnesses


Dash removed, no wires


All this stuff has to go back together before I can sell it 


Engine bay, cleaned up with newly wrapped wiring harnesses

[dentedfender]

That thing is looking sick!! I can't wait to see it done, we will have to organize a co 4x4 toyota meet when its done. hopefully ill have a new motor in mine by then.

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That thing is looking sick!! I can't wait to see it done, we will have to organize a co 4x4 toyota meet when its done. hopefully ill have a new motor in mine by then.

I'd be up for a CO Toyota meet. 

Thanks for the encouragement!  I can't wait to drive this thing after all this work.

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8-6-06
Onword with the world's slowest 84 Toyota 4Runner buildup 

Worked on the shortblock, getting the valves in the head.


No timing, head just sitting on block


Head bleeding with assembly lube


Adjustable cam gear vs. regular cam gear

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8-19-06
Got the head bolted down and all the timing set installed.  I still need to degree the cam and adjust the valves before the valve cover can be bolted down.


Head bolts torqued down




Ready to be degreed





Valve cover shows up almost red in these pictures, it's actually bright chevy orange.

[Hottrod81]

Looks good.  I am going to be doing the same thing on my 4Runner Build.

[79coyotefrg]

I'd be up for a CO Toyota meet. 

Thanks for the encouragement!  I can't wait to drive this thing after all this work.

there is talk on the TTORA  that the 2007 TakeOver will be in Colorado 

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there is talk on the TTORA  that the 2007 TakeOver will be in Colorado 

That would rock!  I'd be up for attending that event!

[94SRUNNER]

What type of exhaust system will you be installing? Header, tube size, muffler (if any).

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What type of exhaust system will you be installing? Header, tube size, muffler (if any).

For now, stock exhaust manifold, 2.25 piping, Flowtech Raptor Muffler (http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?autofilter=1&part=BIG%2D50051FLT&N=700+115&autoview=sku)

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9-9-06

My dad and I degreed the cam in.  Stock cam centerlines are at 110 degrees.  The cam degreed in at 112 degrees.  So, the cam was 2 degrees retarded.  Makes sense because the head had been shaved 20 thousands and they say for every 10 thou, it's a degree retarded. 

Keeping the engine at a retarded cam timing would produce more high end HP.  Since the 22RE isn't a high HP or high rpm engine, that power is wasted.  Also, I'm planning on rockcrawling this thing, I need the power lower in the RPM range.

The 22RE's do well at 2-3 degrees of cam advancement.  So, I dialed in 5 degrees of cam advance (2 for the head shave and 3 more for some HP).

I wouldn't have been able to do anything with the cam timing if I didn't have the adjustable cam gear.

After we got the cam degreed, we adjusted valve lash.  We started putting all the accessories back together.  Oip pump, water pump.  I primed the oil pump by packed it with white lithium grease.  On startup, I need the oil pressure so packing it with grease will get the oil pumping up in the head, cam, and valve train area.

[Vic stuff]

gettin closer to bein runnin! cant wait to see this on the trail!

[Duffil]

9-9-06
I primed the oil pump by packed it with white lithium grease.  On startup, I need the oil pressure so packing it with grease will get the oil pumping up in the head, cam, and valve train area.

I hope that the Lithium Grease is light enough to get out of the way. You do not need to pack a Toyota oil pump; they operate different than a GM style pump.  I tried packing a toy pump once, and you never get pressure.  I have found to just fire it and you get pressure NOW, given that is has oil in it.  I probably wore my top end more cranking it over trying to get oil pressure than I have in the +/- 18,000 since then.

Does look really good though...

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I hope that the Lithium Grease is light enough to get out of the way. You do not need to pack a Toyota oil pump; they operate different than a GM style pump.  I tried packing a toy pump once, and you never get pressure.  I have found to just fire it and you get pressure NOW, given that is has oil in it.  I probably wore my top end more cranking it over trying to get oil pressure than I have in the +/- 18,000 since then.

Does look really good though...

Should I take the oil pump off and get the grease out of there?  I saw several different threads here and on Pirate that said something about priming the pump with vasoline or white lithium.  What's the easiest way to get oil in the pump without making a huge mess?  Thanks for the replies everyone!  I'm hoping to drive this thing soon!

[Duffil]

Should I take the oil pump off and get the grease out of there?  I saw several different threads here and on Pirate that said something about priming the pump with vasoline or white lithium.  What's the easiest way to get oil in the pump without making a huge mess?  Thanks for the replies everyone!  I'm hoping to drive this thing soon!

It's up to you.  The white grease might be light enough to move out once oil hits it, i don't know.  As far as getting oil to the pump, it's easy.  Fill the engine with oil and fire it off.  If you are worried about it, you can pull the bolt out of the pump(the large one in the front, facing up) and pour some oil in there.  There's a spring under the bolt, make sure not to lose it.

[yotadork83]

the guy at the machine shop let me use a tool that screws into the oil port where the pressure sensor is and primed the hole motor before i evan cranked it over.

[blackdiamond]

Is that an 03 Supercharged Mustang Cobra in the background?  I'm a Chevy guy, but those are neat cars. 

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Is that an 03 Supercharged Mustang Cobra in the background?  I'm a Chevy guy, but those are neat cars. 

Yes, it's my mom & dad's.  Very quick car for stock.  Faster than 99% of the cars on the road.  Supercharged and 400hp makes for a fun car.  Best 1/4 time we could make was 13.9 @ 104 on a very bald set of rear tires and at 5000 feet.

[blackdiamond]

Yes, it's my mom & dad's.  Very quick car for stock.  Faster than 99% of the cars on the road.  Supercharged and 400hp makes for a fun car.  Best 1/4 time we could make was 13.9 @ 104 on a very bald set of rear tires and at 5000 feet.

Officially 390 hp and I have seen them run 12.7's with nothing but pulleys.  I took a used one for a test drive and made the sales guy nervous.    He didn't realize that I was used to the power and was only giving it a long run bottom to top in 2nd.

[toyotagod69]

That motor is looking great....
What part of CO are you I am thinking about moving out there with some friends of mine that live around Arapaho (I think that's how you spell it).....

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That motor is looking great....
What part of CO are you I am thinking about moving out there with some friends of mine that live around Arapaho (I think that's how you spell it).....

I'm in Pueblo, south of Denver about 100 miles.  I'm not sure where Arapaho is?  Is it a small town?

[Hottrod81]

That is one nice looking motor.  Should give you some nice power.

[Volcom]

That is one nice looking motor.  Should give you some nice power.

Thanks, it runs good so far.  I've only got 30 miles on it but it feels like it's breaking in nicely!

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9/17/06
Cleaned up W-56 tranny that I bought 2.5 years ago.  The stock tranny from the 84 is behind it, it's a G-52.  It's weaker than the W-56.  I used Castrol degreaser in the purple bottle, works great!

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10/1/06
My dad and I tried to get the Toyota up and running for the trip to Eagle Rock planned for the 7th.  More engine shots

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10/16/06
We didn't make the timeline of the 7th.  No biggie, we wanted to make sure we had everything hooked up and done right.

Here's the tach, oil pressure, and water temp gauges hooked up, ready for the engine to be fired up for the first time.









Engine fired up and everything was good, minsus the scare of a blown headgasket.  It was fine and just needed to be ran for the white smoke to go away.

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11/7/06
Finally got around to welding up my Marlin Crawler rock sliders I got for a birthday present over a year ago from my parents.









We are getting it ready for it's Maden Voyage this weekend at Old Chinaman's Gulch!

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11/8/06
Worked on the little things to get it ready. The dash is back together, front swaybar is off, oil pressure and water temp gauges are mounted in the cab, changed oil, put the gas tank skid plate back on it.

[TrackVino]

Really nice build. Like all the work you have been putting into this.