[LordNatedawg]

Here's another project I've been slowly picking away at.

Remember my 1995 4Runner with a blown head gasket? Well...it blew another head gasket. You can see in the pictures that cylinder 6 has literally been steam cleaned. I tore the engine apart with the intent of fixing it and deleting the exhaust cross pipe that causes head warpage. Unfortunately that wasn't viable. The cams were badly grooved, the cam caps were grooved, and the cylinder walls had very deep vertical scratches. The engine was going to need a complete rebuild, but no local shop would've been able to look at it for at least a year.

So I did the next easiest thing. I bought a 3.4L out of a 3rd generation 4Runner to drop into my 2nd generation 4Runner. It has been a slow process but today I finally got the engine installed. I still need to install a wiring harness and finalize a few small things before I can start it.

Just a small summary. I had to relocate the charcoal canister and battery from the right to the left side of the vehicle. I'm reusing the original transmission. I had to drill a hole in the engine block to relocate the dipstick. The wiring harness is a complete adapter harness. I had to buy a ECM for a Toyota T-100, because they used the 3.4L engine with a A340H transmission (the same combo I now have).

I didn't take as many pictures as I thought. But this project has been going on for about 8 months now. Very slow because it isn't cheap and I don't have much spare time.