On December 13th, a few days before I got my manual in the mail my Dad and I went up to my Uncle's garage and we all finally got to work on installing the engine.
The first thing we did was blow up the trucks tires since they're junk and seem to lose air in two weeks or so (no big deal though, I plan on buying newer ones in the spring.) then we pushed it into the heated garage with a tractor and got right to work. Before even touching the engine we had to prepare the transmission with a new release bearing. The old one didn't look that warn but its just one of the things where its such a cheap part, might as well replace it while you have it apart.
After that we hooked the engine up to a pulley and slowly slid it into the engine bay of the truck, it went in a whole lot easier than our previous attempt which was a release. it took a few minutes to align everything up how it was supposed to but once we did the Toyota went up on the lift and we quickly screwed in all the bell housing bolts which attach the transmission to the engine. After that we were kind of tired but we wanted to finish the motor mounts before we left. It took another half an hour or so to line those two up correctly but we eventually did it, the motor was installed in its new home.
Now all we have to do is hook all the cables, hoses, and sensors up... luckily that job isn't the most challenging and I can do most of it by myself!
The first thing we did was blow up the trucks tires since they're junk and seem to lose air in two weeks or so (no big deal though, I plan on buying newer ones in the spring.) then we pushed it into the heated garage with a tractor and got right to work. Before even touching the engine we had to prepare the transmission with a new release bearing. The old one didn't look that warn but its just one of the things where its such a cheap part, might as well replace it while you have it apart.
After that we hooked the engine up to a pulley and slowly slid it into the engine bay of the truck, it went in a whole lot easier than our previous attempt which was a release. it took a few minutes to align everything up how it was supposed to but once we did the Toyota went up on the lift and we quickly screwed in all the bell housing bolts which attach the transmission to the engine. After that we were kind of tired but we wanted to finish the motor mounts before we left. It took another half an hour or so to line those two up correctly but we eventually did it, the motor was installed in its new home.
Now all we have to do is hook all the cables, hoses, and sensors up... luckily that job isn't the most challenging and I can do most of it by myself!
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