Any recommendations/advice/ to look out for when motor swapping/pulling? Would there be any information that I would be able to find that would teach me about this? Any input is taken generously! (As long as you're not mean!)

I'm building another block getting ready for a swap. Hoping to delete the balance shaft as well. Need more information before I even attempt a pull. I do have buddies that have pulled/swapped, but not familiarized with toyota.

 

drain all fluids.
disconnect all wires/hoses.
undo motor mounts.
pull motor.

its pretty easy, the hardest part is putting it back in a making sure you get everything hooked up and hooked up properly.

 

do it from underneath if you have a hoist

 

Yeah if I remember correct, cburgl was stating it's a good idea to color match the wires indicating what goes where. So pretty much after all the fluids are drained and the wires are disconnected all I need to do is undo the motor mounts and it'll pull right out?

 

well that depends on if your leaving the tranny in or not.

id recommend taking LOOOOTS of pictures, that always helps me in case i forget how to put something back together. You could also put a piece of tape on every wire you disconnect and label it with a sharpie.

 

Yeah that's what I am going to do. I'm a forgetful person and installs rape me bad because I forget where stuff goes haha. And yeah, my car is a stick so i'm leaving the tranny there. Just need to beef up another block so my motor doesnt blow again. Thanks

Any other input or recommendations would help a lot! (Even though yellow has been more than helpful )

 

pull the tranny too or itll be 5 times harder. undo the axles at the cv joint, just refill when you put it all back together. thats what i did and it wasnt too bad when pulling it out. it comes out the top pretty easily. take off your header and take out your radiator. mark everythingggg. u cannot stress that enough. if you pull off a small clip, tape it and write on it where it goes.



good luck! i just pulled my motor about 3-4 weeks ago ill help you as best as i can.

 

I really have no idea where any of the bolts/mounts are to hold these humongos up haha. I just read a story of someone dropping their tranny when trying to pull their motor haha. (Not really a funny laugh, more nervous)

 

Where in Cali are you located?

 

im in bakersfield... ok follow these steps:

1. Remove all clips (small wire harness clips) from everything you can see on your engine, remember to label them.
2. Remove everything you can while the engine is still in (header, dp, supercharger, shift linkages, bracket for linkages, radiator, belt, etc.)
3. Break open your power steering system by removing the hose from the bottom of the reservoir. you can flush it out by turning your wheel full left, full right, repeat.
4. Remove all hoses you think that would get in the way of the engine coming up and out, label them all.
5. Hook up your engine hoist, remove the slack out of the chain, make sure your engine hoist isnt trying to lift your car, also make sure there is no weight on the motor mounts, (when you start undoing mounts, the bolts will be unscrewable by hand if there is no force on them) you have one mount behind the eninge towards the driver side, one in front, one on the driver side hooked up to the tranny, and one on the passenger side.
6. Take your wheels off, unbolt the bottom bolts to your lower control arms, unclamp the cv boots, slide the axles out of their cv joint housings, grease will go everywhere, make sure you catch it, you can reuse it if its not too old. Take your hood off.
7. after all mounts are unbolted from the engine (you might need to remove the drivers side mount completely), slowly SLOWLY! lift the engine. make sure you have at least 3 people watching front, sides, and back for damaging anything.
8. When your a/c lines start to get stretched, remove your a/c compressor and let it hang there.
9. when your wire harness starts to get stretched, you can pull off your intake manifold and remove your harness, i think there are 3 or 4 10 mm bolts holding the harness plastic pieces to the block. make sure all your sensors are DISCONNECTED and your harness is completely FREE from the engine.
10. Pull the engine up and out. Still watch for anything you may have missed. you can pull wires out of their clips easily by not making sure your doing everything right.


thats basically it. from memory. ill run through it again and make sure i didnt miss anything.

 

i was doing this about a year ago. i swapped pistions and bearings and removed the balanced shafts as well. its easy to pull out as long as you remove the header, radiator, and a few people recomend removing the little cowl over the wipers. like everyone else is saying, make sure you makr everything. i made that mistake and came up a few bolts short in some departments, and having about a dozen bolts left over. make sure all of your bearing clearences are to spec using plastigauge, and make sure every bolt is tourqued to spec as well. when removing the balance shafts, make sure to block off the oil feed to the balance shaft assembly, if you dont, you will not build oil pressure. i tapped the hole and put a JB weld-covered bolt in its place and it worked fine. keep this thread posted if you need help

 

Oh definitely i'm going to keep this thread open. When I actually start this i'm going to snap lots of pics haha. When removing the balance shaft, I thought it's bad to use a jb weld to plug the feed? And bridfi has offered to help me out so when I get my block honed and I have the pistons, rods, bearings, valves+springs, I'll be heading to semi-socal to get this baby popped in!

Thanks for your guys' help!

 

I'm getting excited just thinking about a built motor and upped limiter. Good thing for taxes and returns. Another question, with a built motor, would it be beneficial to up the limiter or would there not be enough power to make it efficient?

 

all depends on your powerband.

your cams greatly change your powerband.

say if your cams make power up to 6500 rpms, it wouldnt be beneficial to up the rev limiter, but if they make power all the way up to 8000 rpms, then it would be beneficial. bigger turbos like more rpms because thats when they really spool. go too big though and it wont reach full boost until after your rev limiter.

get an appropriate-sized turbo (you are going turbo, right?) with a pretty aggressive cam that makes power up past 6500 RPMs and upping your rev limiter will help greatly. make sure your valve springs dont float until after your limiter, for example if your springs wont float until 8000 rpms, dont rev past 7500.

thats my opinion, peopel may argue with it, but thats what i have to say.

 

Good read on cam profiles

 

just remember that if you end up with any "extra" parts your in trouble lol :D

 

lol we have a saying around here among the mechanics:

when you rebuild an engine and you have no spare parts, your doing something wrong.

i have rebuilt 3 engines in my lifetime (not many at all, i know) and i have ALWAYS had extra parts left over. Its inevitable. All 3 engines ran beautifully.

 

Well let's see... i'll have extra pistons, springs, valves, rods, bearings... but i'll still be golden... if not... Titanium

 

i was talking about misc. bolts and brackets, you might have a few left over.

 

Oh I know haha. I was just trying to be funny. I fail.