Once I got all the diffs swapped over, I started working on the tune up stuff. The P/O said he'd never done the timing belt, he had bought it at 130K miles, and had no idea what had been done before that. One way or another I figured it was due. When I pulled the timing belt cover off, this is what it looked like....


Pretty sure it was probably never done. I've done a few of these at around 90k to 100k and none of them looked like that!


Just some other pics showing the age and use of the parts out of the motor. It wouldn't surprise me if most of this stuff was original.




Valve cover gaskets were leaking, they were pretty dried out and would pretty much stand up on their own!


Motor was clean inside though, very good sign that at least the oil changes were done regularly.


I don't have any pics but I cleaned up the engine bay as I went, looks a lot cleaner under the hood now. I also added my Airaid intake tube that I took off my Tacoma, and replaced some of the vacuum lines that were cracked.