I need help in Colorado Springs

I just found out today that my 2.7L head is cracked and I'm wondering if there's anyone in my area or close that has a stock used one that's not cracked. I'm just looking to get my daily driver back on the road. I'm not ready to rebuild the engine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Check out the regional thread

https://www.tacomaworld.com/forums/colorado.172/

 

Thanks for that! Is there anyway to search by keyword? That's allota pages lol

 

Just make a new thread.

 

That's what this is...

 

I meant in the Colorado regional forum.

 

Ohhhh, gotcha

 

Have you tried calling any local Toyota yards? Pull a head off a good running engine

 

Toyota 2.4/2.7 2RZ/3RZ 8 port intake Assembled Cylinder Head | King Cylinder Heads

 

I finally had some time today to call the only yard here in the springs, but they didn't have any. They could get me one outta Kansas for 350. I haven't tried pick-n-pull yet, but I don't have time to get there and pull it myself before closing time.

 

Locally will save you shipping prices. There are two junkyards in Denver that specialize in the yotas. One of them will have it for sure.

 

Any idea what the names of those shops are?

 

Jims Used Toyota Truck Parts (Junk Yard Parts)

Yota Yard (Junk Yard Parts)

 

Thanks, I got one from yota yard, it's at the machine shop now, hopefully it's not cracked.

 

I shouldn't have gone this route, getting a junkyard head was just someone else's junk and turned out that all the valves were leaking and was also warped.

As of today, this is where I am. I've paid the machine shop to clean and pressure test my head that turned out to be cracked (that took 10 days & $150), drove 1.5 hrs to buy one ($165 non refundable) at a junkyard on a Friday and had to wait till Monday to get it back to the machine shop. 10 days later I found out that all the valves were leaking, luckily he only charged me $40 this time, even though he cleaned and pressure tested this one as well. Once again it's Friday afternoon, I went to pick up my junk head and he said he could do a valve job for $600 plus the milling of the head for $600 or he could order me a remanufactured Toyota head for $800 plus shipping from Denver, meaning I wouldn't have gotten it until this coming Tuesday unless I go pick it up. So at this point my choice was obvious, I dropped everything and drove 1.5 hrs to Denver to pick it up. Now it's time to install it.