ImmortalYota80's First Gen Build

[Dwill817]

BTW, I love your truck man. I never liked the RUF/Chevy 63's until I looked at your build. Even though I didn't go that path, hybrid OME type deal, I still appreciate your suspension setup.

And hurry up and put 35's on this thing!

[ImmortalYota80]

BTW, I love your truck man. I never liked the RUF/Chevy 63's until I looked at your build. Even though I didn't go that path, hybrid OME type deal, I still appreciate your suspension setup.

And hurry up and put 35's on this thing!

Thanks man I really like the way my truck has turned out once I get a good running engine in it its gonna be even better!

[ImmortalYota80]

Got the 22re pulled today. Pretty easy to do I just unpluged the engine harness from the ecu pulled the wiring through the firewall into the engine bay and started disconnecting stuff. I made sure to label everything clearly so I dont forget what goes where. I also decided that im going to swap in the entire 4runner harness into my truck as well as the steering column. That way the only thing i have to wire would be my stock 1980 gauges and thats it! So i think thats going to be the easiest way to do things. I also cleaned my engine bay in my first gen so it will be nice and shiny for the install. I'll shut up now heres some pics.

[ImmortalYota80]

Got the wiring harness stripped out of the runner. I have everything labeled that im going to keep and now im sitting down unwrapping the harness and cutting out what wires i do not need. Pics...........

[ImmortalYota80]

Put the 36's on my first gen!

[Dwill817]

Heck yeah man! That looks much better!

[twistedtoy92]

just needs alittle hot knife action and youll be set!

[ImmortalYota80]

just needs alittle hot knife action and youll be set!

One of the tires is actually in good shape and i will keep it as a spare. The rest im junking cause im getting a brand new set of 35s for some work ive been doing to a bronco

[twistedtoy92]

There you go! Sounds legit to me!

[ImmortalYota80]

More progress. Got the 22re apart and everything looks good no major problems with the engine so thats a plus! So i went ahead and ordered a bunch of goodies for my engine and the truck. I got a brand new engnbldr head with oversized valves, rv valve springs, and their 261c Crawler cam. I also got their 4 piece front set that includes a new steel rail timing kit, Timing Cover, Oil Pump, and Water Pump. And then i called up 22re performance and ordered a gasket seal kit, a new fuel filter, injectors, injector seal kit etc.... I also ordered some of marlins high output front headlights so im not driving blind any more as well as new tail light lens, and new marker lights. Anyways heres the pics.



The evil scientist himself dissecting some wiring 

[Dwill817]

So is that your finished harness?

I wanna know more about what all you have to take out or add to the 22re harness to get it to work in our truck. I figured maybe having to mate the gauges and ignition switch? I have no clue, but I'm getting anxious to do this swap.

[ImmortalYota80]

So is that your finished harness?

I wanna know more about what all you have to take out or add to the 22re harness to get it to work in our truck. I figured maybe having to mate the gauges and ignition switch? I have no clue, but I'm getting anxious to do this swap.

No thats the tail lights and fuel tank wires. I took out all the unnecessary wires from those wires like the rear window wires and all the things the 4runner had that mytruck doesnt. As for the dash harness basically im not taking much out ofit and there are 3 things you need to splice. The first is the ignition switch, second being the turn signals/wiper switch/headlight switch, and the last thing being the guages. The ignition and turn signals are very easy to splice because the harnesses use the same color wires for the same use so you literally just have to splice the same colors together. Its that simple. And the gauges i still havent figured out yet i will report back to here once i figure out the gauge splices.

[Wainiha]

That birds nest in the living room looks really fun.  Yikes.

[Dwill817]

It's hard to imagine without looking at it. Lol

Did you have to swap over the old style plugs to the body harness? For like the headlights and tail-lights.

So it's pretty much like pull both harnesses. Clean up the 22re of extra crap. Wire in necessary body plug-ins, plug in 22re harness in the body, mount fuse boxes etc, run it behind the dash, splice in the ignition, gauges, turn signals from behind the dash, plug it all in and I assume your using the 22re ignition box(inside the engine bay). Close enough? Lol

Then it's stuff like the inline fuel pump and return line, tranny mount, driveshaft work.

Then laugh at other 22r stalling out on steep hills? lol

[ImmortalYota80]

It's hard to imagine without looking at it. Lol

Did you have to swap over the old style plugs to the body harness? For like the headlights and tail-lights.

So it's pretty much like pull both harnesses. Clean up the 22re of extra crap. Wire in necessary body plug-ins, plug in 22re harness in the body, mount fuse boxes etc, run it behind the dash, splice in the ignition, gauges, turn signals from behind the dash, plug it all in and I assume your using the 22re ignition box(inside the engine bay). Close enough? Lol

Then it's stuff like the inline fuel pump and return line, tranny mount, driveshaft work.

Then laugh at other 22r stalling out on steep hills? lol

Basically! Its really not all that hard. You just gotta dive into it. This is the first time ive ever messed with any auto electrical and im pretty confident that its going to come out well

[ImmortalYota80]

Well its christmas time around here! I got all my parts today from Engnbldr and 22reperformance. I got a brand new head with rv valve springs, oversized valves, a 261 Crawler cam, new timing cover, timing chain with steel rails, oil pump, water pump, gaskets seals etc..... Pretty Pumped ready to build this engine!!!!





Also picked up a set of upgraded headlights that marlin sells

[1985CRAWLER]

you chose the right places to get the goods for the 22re, i got everything for my rebuild from the same places, awesome people!

keep up the good work man!

[ImmortalYota80]

you chose the right places to get the goods for the 22re, i got everything for my rebuild from the same places, awesome people!

keep up the good work man!

Thanks for the compliments helps me stay motivated  I hope to have this engine all back together within the next week so I can get my truck going!

[ImmortalYota80]

Registered for Marlin Crawler Round Up yesterday! I cant wait time to get my truck done

[Dwill817]

We'll hurry up! Lol

[ImmortalYota80]

Lets just say ive been working with a hard on all weekend 

[tgmaul88]

very nice

[1985CRAWLER]

the thing looks cherry!

same color scheme i went with, powder coat or high temp paint?

prepare for the motor to smoke alot on the first start, once the paint burns in all over it goes away.

[ImmortalYota80]

the thing looks cherry!

same color scheme i went with, powder coat or high temp paint?

prepare for the motor to smoke alot on the first start, once the paint burns in all over it goes away.

You know if I wasn't in such a hurry to get this done I woulda powder coated it but it's just high temp paint which still looks great and will last awhile.

[HogCanyonHopper]

that looks really good. can't wait to see this truck at the round up 

[ImmortalYota80]

that looks really good. can't wait to see this truck at the round up 

Thanks a lot man. I can't wait to go and meet up with all my marlin buddies

[ImmortalYota80]

All Done 

[megaphoneman]

Ur insane that looks great!


Blaaaahhhhhhhh

[81 shortbed]

very nice!

[twistedtoy92]

Very clean! Nice work!