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Sup guys just got my first tacoma a couple months ago it had been sitting in this guy's front yard since 2010 expired registration since 2010 and I did a job replacing some rotted wood for on her back porch along with reroofing it and she gave it too me probably cost me about 700 bucks and a couple days labor the guy had been dead for a year or so and it was left to her I towed it home and threw the battary from my car in it started right up but ran like shit so I tore it down pulled the heads off and had them milled and cleaned up now im looking to get the gasket kit and throw it back togeather ave register it botta bing botta boom then do a 4x4 conversion botta bam

 

Thank you Cory, very cool

 

Welcome to TacomaWorld. We've had a few people on here do 4x4 conversions successfully. I'm sure there will be resources available if you need it.

 

Welcome to TW. Let's see some pics of the new project

 

Congratulations! Nice find! You got some kind of lucky with that fuel tank and pump after 9 years of sitting.

 

Will throw some pics up today I'm just waking up but I was looking on yotashop.com and it seems the best route for the gasket kit is to buy the original head gaskets separately left then right for $53 a piece then the other gaskets in the kit for around $180 does that sound right? Does anyone have any knowledge of where I can find the best deal on the complete original gasket kit? Can't find nothing on here about that

 

Oh yeah forgot to mention the truck only has 143k miles on her

 

Welcome to The Forum!

 

This is the first motor I have torn down by myself pretty fun .... just drove down the 395 into hesperia 3 weekends in a row I seen a couple of Tacoma go off the road into the desert along with a jeep made me jealous I was driving my jetta and stuck in a long line of cars in construction just after the Kramer junction lol

 

I don't know about a gasket kit. I know lots of members buy the timing belt, water pump, belts, and tensioner kit from eBay aircabinman.

Camelback Toyota parts will soon become your best friend.

https://parts.camelbacktoyota.com/partlocator/index.cfm?siteid=214329

 

Welcome to TW Cory!
Yes, please post pictures as you progress with your build, have fun with your new Toy!

 

@Idontkerr144 I've never done a head gasket on a V6 Tacoma, but on every GM, Ford vehicle I've ever done, I've used FelPro head gaskets. Rock Auto has 2 set available. Maybe other TW user will chime in on using felpro or not

https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog...418453,engine,cylinder+head+gasket+/+set,5412

 

Interesting very interesting , hello

 

I use FelPro on my other cars. The last build before the Tacoma we used FelPro exclusively on a Subaru EJ25. The new FelPros are the "go to" gasket for Subarus that like to blow head gaskets. I didn't need to replace the head gaskets on my engine swap. But I replaced every other gasket and seal. So I don't have any first-hand experience with 3.4L head gaskets. I used OEM gaskets and seals for everything except the intake manifold gasket and valve cover gasket. The reason for that is I had pitting on my head from gasket rash. Even though I did my best to make the head to intake manifold perfectly smooth, there is a surface defect that I'm working around. In that case, the FelPro intake manifold gaskets have an extra silicone seal that fills in the gasket rash area. I've tackled this problem on other aluminum engines over the past 10 years and know how this particular gasket can help overcome that issue. For valve covers, I've used the blue silicone FelPro gaskets tame cars with chronic leaking valve cover gaskets. Again, the gaskets solved a problem. I just don't like black rubber valve cover gaskets because they get hard and brittle much faster than silicone.

So I used a mix of OEM and FelPro. I think I picked the best of breed for the application and use. For seals, the front and cam seals come with the timing belt kits. They are OEM. The rear main seal I bought OEM from one of our discount OEM parts dealers. If I wasn't using OEM, I would be using National seals. National and FelPro are both owned by Federal-Mogul (FM). I've seen press releases where FM supplies seals to Toyota. Life goes on.

 

Thanks for the input guys yea felpro Is the gasket set that oriellys offers I just felt like I could get a better one at a better price but didn't know much about it

 

Well I decided to just buy a jdm for it and i'm in the process of swapping figured i would just rebuild the one that's in it from the ground up

 

This thread is worthless without punctuation!

 

He uses the same stuff I use in these applications felpro is the best valve cover gaskets and probably intake too, I haven’t used the Intake mani gaskets yet, but next time I’m gonna. Toyota doesn’t need our money on certain stuff that has a short life on our long lived trucks. Some stuff like seals and head gaskets, you can’t get around the factory stuff or you’ll be regretting it, hoses never buy from Toyota unless you like the color your money burns, with one exception the radiator hoses and all the coolant hoses, but for vacuum hoses never.