3VZ-E (3.0 V6) life cycle completed.

[LXBRADY]

Holy smokes man!!!


he saw you feverishly working on the thing to "head to Moab tomorrow!" Glad you got it going again! See, it'll never die!

Have a great time in Moab

 

[Red_Chili]

Put my engine back together yesterday. Hours and hours of cleaning parts.

Kevin was right. None of those bearings were bad. Finished the farm-boy rod bearing replacement. SAME NOISE! Dang. I should have done the mains too.

Wait a minute. What about these ol' idler pullys? Pull the belts off the front = no noise!
Start to put the AC belt back on and find 2 inches of belt chunked out!
Replace 2 belts with new spare belts. Start up. No noise.

All that downtime for nothing more than a belt!

Don't feel bad. I once took a motorcycle apart only to discover it was out of gas.

 

[leiniesred]

Actually, that was feverishly working after getting back from Moab. Had a great trip even without the 4Runner.

 

[pmccumber]

Don't feel bad. I once took a motorcycle apart only to discover it was out of gas.

That is funny! I have a friend in Arizona who crash landed his Navion south of the Grand Canyon cause he ran out of gas. He got on the ground and realized he had gas in the other tank.