Originally Posted by kolelt

No problem bud. Because the reason I'm telling you to check your injectors and compare them is. My original motor blew a head gasket. It started with a misfire. It kinda went away after replacing the plugs. It was misfire in cylinder #3 , ofcourse cylinder #3 blew and that cylinder was filled with coolant to the top. It was bad. I was to worried to rebuild the motor and then end up with bottom end knocking. So I got a jdm. After we dropped the jdm, I was so happy until we started the motor up. It was misfiring. I was so disappointed and so angry thinking here we go again. Same shit same problem. My.mechanic buddy quickly was like it's the Injectors. It has to be. Shit you not they were different, as soon as we replaced them it ran like a champ. And even know he busted my balls about buying Toyota red coolant spending almost $100 for three gallons, I said I'd rather pay $100 now then $1500 again. After that I am beyond anal. Oil changes every 3000-4000 miles. Check my coolant constantly, check under the car for leaks constantly. Check the oil I check everything once a week. Because I want this car to last and I enjoy driving it. Plus, you might drop the motor in and if it is misfiring you might be looking in all the wrong places you know ?

Mine is 97, I don't know if the years had to do with different type of injectors being on the 5vzfe. But I think being that it's from across the globe it might lol.

I paid $1500 for jdm motor, the timing belt sticker says the belt was changed at around 58k miles. The jdm place said there engines have around 30k-60k miles on them. No more. How true is this ? Who knows. But I did get to go to their warehouse and pick out the motor out of like 10 they had. So I picked the cleanest. Another funny thing is the jdm motor has a sticker saying to replace the timing belt at every 100,000 kilometers, which is about 50-60k miles. But I'm sure every 90-100k miles is safe.

How much did you pay? I also got to keep a ac compressor, starter and couple other things of the jdm motor as those were basicallly the same but I didn't disconnect my ac compressor , I didn't want to refill it back lol.


When you moved the oil filter into the proper location, there was a round thing that was covering the other filter location, I don't know the proper name for it. Well , I though I could get away by re-using my old one, but I believe that it was to small or something, and also there's a little o-ring in that round cover, the domestic o-ring I had on mine didn't fit. I had to go to the dealer and order a specific o-ring for that cover.


Make sure it covers everything properly with proper o-ring. I believe there are two groves for two different type of o-rings. Just something to look out for.

Originally Posted by zgensler31

Hey guys. Are you referring to the o - ring for the oil cooler? Or one for the filter.... I ask because as I just fired my jdm swap up, I have oil all over the ground and it appears to be coming from the filter. I used fipg for the cooler, and its pretty dry, but the filter and surrounding is soaked. Any clue?

Originally Posted by kolelt

U did use your old wiring harness right ?

Check all your coil packs, check ur spark plug wires. Make sure you have it in right firing order. Check ground wires

Originally Posted by kolelt

U did use your old wiring harness right ?

Check all your coil packs, check ur spark plug wires. Make sure you have it in right firing order. Check ground wires

Originally Posted by poleclimber63

Crap! I believe the o-ring he's talking about is the one between the oil cooler and the block on the right of the pic.



http://www.toyota-4runner.org/3rd-ge...ter-cooler.jpg

I think he was considering using the o-ring from the cap on the block that was installed on the JDM (on the left) and re-using it for the oil cooler (on the right). Can't, because its smaller. I ordered it from Toyota.

This maybe a stupid question, and I apologize for it in advance, but did you thread the union into the block far enough (and torque it)? If it isn't threaded into the block far enough, is it possible it won't seat properly? I don't know... Or is it possible the o-ring stuck to the seat and you didn't notice, and threaded the filter over it (on mine, I had to scrape the o-ring/washer off and I cleaned the seat off with a med scouring pad)? I can't think of any other way oil could leak out at the filter seat.... sure its coming from there? or the oil dip stick hole....or oil pressure sender, next to the filter....or the plug directly below the sender? Sorry!

Originally Posted by zgensler31

Yeah I hadn't thought of the dipstick. But I couldn't find a torque spec for the union. What did you use?

Originally Posted by kolelt

Didn't use any torque spec. Just tighten it pretty tight.

Originally Posted by zgensler31

That's what I went with, and its definitely torqued down to 18 ft lbs. probably more. Still chasing this leak. And it's bad too.