Another new guy

[zeak]

Im new to Toyotas, but not to wrenching on older vehicles.
I wanted to try something new asfar as my daily driver goes.
I just sold my 76 chevy camaro, so the yoda was almost a 180.

I now have a 1991 4runner. Stock with the exception of an unknown lift kit and some nice-ish wheels and tires.

So far I've replaced a few things and used a few of the mods listed on this forum.
(thanks for that btw)
New clutch master,slave,and hardline.
New alternator and belts.

I then removed the fan and fan clutch. I got an o'rily 14" fan. So far its worked well and also stoped the blets from screaming so much.
I have a few questions tho.
-When I remove the fuel cap to refill, it sucks in air....Alot of air.
-As a few on here have noted, I cant stand the right exhaust crosses over the top of the bell housing.
What if I removed all the exhaust system except for the manifolds. Caped off the port where the gasses exit normaly. And then bolted down pipes to the rear of the manifolds where the cross over pipe normaly bolts?
(see my poorly doctored pic at the very bottom)

Thanks.

 

[zeak]

When I first bought my 4runner, it had the power steering pump setting in the rear floorboard. I found that its fairly hard to locate the vacuum switch that screws into the lower rear of the pump. (it brings up the Rpm if the pump is under strain to keep the engine from stalling)

I tryed several different ways of blocking off the port on the pump, but it would seem power steering fluid can reduce most sealers to nothing.

So I threaded a bolt into the pump and cut it off flush with the housing.
After that, I welded up the gap around the bolt.

No more leaking.

 

[KidVermicious]

Welcome to the word of Yotas. Somebody (mikebontoft, maybe?) was making noises a while back about getting an extra drivers side manifold and flipping it upside down on the passenger side to make a crossunder? I think if you try and run dual exhaust all the way to the rear you'll find the gas tank in the way, and then you'd only have O2 monitoring on one bank or have to find a way to integrate the signal from two sensors.

Lotsa work. Depending on how much your time is worth, the LCE headers may be cost effective.