1996 3.4l m 4x4 extra cab taco restoration

Thanks! Por15:

easy to deal with hmm no.

Very impressive product

had to grind a bit off to weld on the reinforcement plates and it was harder than removing the scale rust. Also one month later and my fingernails still look like Carson daily circa 2001

 

Awesome work so far. Hope you don’t mind me asking, what is this part called, and where did you find it? Looking to replace my own driver and passenger side.

Thank you!

 

passanger side. Not sure drivers side. Genuine Toyota Belt Weather-Strip 68160-04020
New, Unused, Genuine OEM Factory Part from a Dealership

 

Wheelers brake lines and marlin crawler clutch lines going in Thursday.


Hopefully getting the air compressor set up and wired this week also

 

Ordered some more rugged trans and motor mounts

 

Ordered a set of these after noticing the first thing I notice about raptors and desert trucks are the boxed out control arms.

 

Got the compressor more or less wired

 

this is looking better all the time
i have tentative taco travel plans to the Philly/NJ/NY area before winter comes down the mountain
am i worthy of a close-up peek if you're in the area?

 

absolutely. Mind you I’m moving west in a few months

 

All done

 

Man, that looks really nice.

 

Hopefully this solves 180k of slop

 

Got one of the front brake lines on but the banjo bolts are too long for my calipers and damn are the c clips a pita

 

Some old projects wrapped up and some
New projects started.


Surprisingly favorite mods are 4x4 innovations semi solid transmission mount and the marlin crawler clutch cable that I never got to when I did the clutch kit.

Starting to feel a little sporty

 

My horn stopped working and it’s not the fuse. anyone else delt with this?

 

Those motor mounts will need the updated stamped steel motor mount brackets from a newer truck. You have the cast ones that will make the engine sit too high to fit the trans in the trans tunnel properly.

 

do you have a part number?

 

Sorry I got mine from a donor engine I got out of a 99-00. My 98 had the cast ones. Look for any 01+ truck which will for sure have the newer style.

 

weird that they don’t mention this. Is this just common knowledge?

 

I found out the hard way. Well the hard way would have been getting them and trying to install them in a truck where I wasn’t already replacing the engine and couldn’t just lift it back out and try again with the brackets from the donor. The motor mounts fit a bunch of different models, but Toyota being Toyota and changing so many little parts over time, it got somehow overlooked.