Alive again!

[02greysixer]

Well after almost exactly a month my truck lives again, better than ever!
The only snags I hit were water leaking from the oil cooler, and a problem with the clutch line.
The damage was-
8 bad injectors
one melted piston
4 bent valves
blown head gasket
bad Cp3
broken flywheel
and a broken motor mount
Hard to believe the thing even ran, but it did. Never had any fuel in the oil, or pressurized cooling system, or water in the oil It's completely different now, so quiet and smooth. And sooo much faster :woott:
Feels very good to be driving my truck again instead of my moms little grocery getter yota 4runner :angel:

 

[gl4787]

Congrats, but dude, i've seriously been hunting for a cheap 4runner to drive for like the last year. haha...

 

[02greysixer]

They're nice, hers is an 08. Very well made trucks, smooth and quiet and nice interiors. But they arent made for tall people

 

[TrentNell]

Well after almost exactly a month my truck lives again, better than ever!
The only snags I hit were water leaking from the oil cooler, and a problem with the clutch line.
The damage was-
8 bad injectors
one melted piston
4 bent valves
blown head gasket
bad Cp3
broken flywheel
and a broken motor mount
Hard to believe the thing even ran, but it did. Never had any fuel in the oil, or pressurized cooling system, or water in the oil It's completely different now, so quiet and smooth. And sooo much faster :woott:
Feels very good to be driving my truck again instead of my moms little grocery getter yota 4runner :angel:

Congrats on getting it back up and going !

 

[02greysixer]

Thanks! :thumb:


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[Jscherbs]

glad to hear your back up and running. if mine took a dump it would take much longer than a month!

Congrats!

 

[Chevy1925]

glad to hear your back up and running. if mine took a dump it would take much longer than a month!

Congrats!

yeah no kidding! thats awesome and congrats! its been 8 months since mine was put to bed and the motor is just now getting torn down

 

[ripmf666]

Congrats glad you got her all back up and running.

 

[02greysixer]

Congrats glad you got her all back up and running.

Thanks for all the advice Henry!

And thanks to everyone else too! if I had something else to drive I'd have waited and saved to fix it. But its my only ride so I had to take out a small loan to fix it. Took me 12 hours Friday Saturday and Sunday to finish it, but I got it together last night about 10:30 . Went for a test drive then and drove it to work this morning, all is well still! :thumb:


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[emiller3]

Congrats on getting it going again:thumb:

 

[coker6303]

Nice turn around! You put it back together stockish?

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[02greysixer]

Yeah totally stock, for now anyway. :thumb:


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[Dan@PPE]

WOW! Congrats on getting her fixed!

 

[02greysixer]

Thanks guys. I'm getting a little bit of blue smoke when it fires up and if I rev it up. Nothing major just a tiny bit, is that normal till the rings seat fully? It's only got about an hour and a half of run time on it. Oil is still nice and clean, just now turning brown. Had a bit of blow by coming from the oil cap, but it's getting to be less and less


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[Kspen90]

Comgrats on gettin her runnin again buddy:thumb: did your truck happen to be making a clack clack clack sound when idleing?

 

[02greysixer]

It made lots of noises hahahah but yes it had a bit of a clack clack to it. It sounded more like an injector knock though than piston slap or something.


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[Kspen90]

Mine is making a clacking but i think its the flywheel making noise, im really not sure what it is.....

 

[SmokeShow]

Thats amazing it ran. LOL

I'm guessing haze goes with time once rings seat fully.

How are you liking that clutch?

 

[02greysixer]

That's what my dad and buddies are all saying too, the thing ran well too! The only clue something was off was it was loud, slow to build boost and sluggish after 2k rpm. I just attributed the 2nd two to it being a ZF6 and tuned differently so I didn't think much of it. If only I knew then what I know now I'd have got a lot better deal on the truck :grin: . But the clutch is good, took a little bit to get a good pedal because I had a pesky air pocket somewhere but it feels good now. I have the truck on the 80hp tune and rolled into the throttle almost all the way going up a bridge in 5th gear. Went from about 1500 to 2500 rpm before i let off and never felt it slip.


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[blk smoke lb7]

Glad you got er up and running so fast,mine was parked in feb and i just got it running here in aug and i know how nice it feels to go for that test drive and nothing fails drips leaks or sputters