thinking about "over haulin" the yota

ok i was talking about senior project ideas a few months ago and came up with what im prolly gonna do, my engine has 220,00 miles and i am sensing it is going down hill, i had an oil leak from the old oil filter before, i changes oil tightened it up, and the truck is still leaking like a siv, its not burning the oil its just dripping and it is coming from over the front differential side, any one know what it could be (02 3.4L V6). i decided when the engine conks im putting a cummins 4bt engine in it, one of my bosses has put one in his brothers ford ranger and will be my mentor for it, my front diff is lookin mighty rank, i touched it with a pen and got up a huge slimey layer of oil, mud, and well basicly a gunk that is now formed on it aswell as the skid plate.

if the front diff will need to be replaced i will do a solid axel swap, put in a new front diff with 4.88 gears and arb locker and add on the 6 inch susp lift.

so it depends on what will conk first, good idea?

oh and i was thinkin of puttin in a mustang 5.0L V8 but id have to register the truck in a different county

 

arent NC schools doing away with graduation projects? and i thought that it had to beniefit the community or something. or is that different?

 

nope we still gotta do em and it can benifit us

 

oh well, damn. go for it. i jsut know that bev perdue has decided to change grad requirements for NC schools now. some schools arent doing the Grad project. and others have continued to stick with them.

 

yeah my old school didnt require it but public schools in my county still do, and ill be damned if good ole bev purdue didnt make the prices of college classes sky rocket!

 

drop a stock rebuilt motor(easier and cheaper than a swap) spend the other money on the 6"lift andfix the front diff

 

fix the leak and sas it. these motors don't "conk". they just don't, some proper maintenance and it will outlive you. but an sas! that would be rad

 

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how bout save for sas lift and diff regear and deisel for senior project, or vice versa?

 

whats SAS?

 

Solid axel swap.

 

ahhhhhh

 

how the hell you manage to get all those miles? seems like a lot to me, but that could be just me.

 

still doing senoir project i just finished mine today put a highlifter 2" lift on my 01 honda fourtrax,viper 3000lb winch, jet kit, clutch kit, 25 shot of NOS, snorkel, hmf swamp series, ss112 rims with 27" swamp lites but yes it sounds like a good idea and u will love it