Recent content by Vaughn

I assume you said that because you are familiar with the early 4.3 - which would rattle your brains out from the vibration that they had. Later 4.3s had a balance shaft installed on them, that made them every bit as smooth as the 3.4, without the enormous dual cam heads - and more torque than...

I posted that altitude information in the other thread. So, you want other people - or MAYBE other examples of how "true" this statement is? Why do you think that passenger jet airplanes have to be pressurized in order to run at 35-50,000 feet? Jet airplanes run up there because there is...

The reason that the 4.3 is such a popular swap - is because a 350 small block is just a bit too long for the engine bay. The 350 is doable, but you have to do a bunch of things like moving the radiator in front of the core support. In addition, it is easy with the small block to overpower your...

I've notice that the 3.0L in this 95 I'm working on is pretty low on power - but I've talked with other 3.0L owners, and they are pretty much all the same - no power. It's even worse than usual, because I am at 6500 ft above sea level - and a good (high) cranking compression around here is 120...

Well, as it turns out - the shift lever and the transfer case lever were glued on - no threads to be seen on the shaft. This is on a 95 Limited edition. There were rubber isolators inside the upper shaft, and these were glued onto the lower shaft. If you think about trying to remove a rubber...

That is good to hear. I thought about using the brute force method (ie turning it until it breaks) - the problem is that rarely works on Eurasian cars (in general). I wanted to make sure that there wasn't another method before getting out the pipe wrenches. Thanks.

95 4wd 4 runner manual trans To be more precise, I need to replace the rubber boots on top of the trans shift tower - which requires removing the shift lever up and out of the trans using the press down and quarter turn method. I then need to separate the upper shift lever from the lower shift...