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One more question sniper, Would the cooler be better going between the engine and the filter, or filter to engine? I.e. Engine-----Cooler-----Filter-----Engine, or Engine-----Filter-----Cooler-----Engine I thought the second option with the cooler last in line may be best, the philosophy...

Thanks guys, Been doing a bit of reading and have only read good things so I think I will do it. I already have a remote oil filter setup and the oil hoses go across the front of the vehicle under the radiator, so it should not be hard to tap into them for the cooler. I plan to mount the...

Greetings all, I am thinking about fitting an engine oil cooler with smallish thermofan to my 4runner/1uzfe to give a bit of longevity to the working parts and was wondering if anyone out there had done this with a 1uz, as I could not seem to find anything substantial during a search. I have a...

And this one is a complete write up on the stock/factory temp gauge mod to make it more accurate: http://www.toyotasurf.asn.au/techsite/tempgauge.htm

G'day Anodyne, Yeah, I reused the in-dash one as well, using the old v6 sender in the coolant bridge at the front of the engine. It works just fine but I wanted something a bit more accurate that takes the guess work out of reading temps. With the thermostat installed the motor seems to...

Yeah no worries Peewee. I was surprised at the way it turned out and I think it actually looks a bit neater than the plastic covers as it is all one single piece that keeps the dimensions/angles of the plastic cover over the spark plug leads at the front of the engine. I used metal with hex...

CABIN MODIFICATIONS: Toyota Surf Inclinometre I saw a Toyota Surf Inclinometre on Ebay so grabbed it, put a red LED in it and installed it on the dash. It was a huge PITA as you pretty much have to get the whole dash apart to bolt it on and wire it up. As usual with the dash, I left it till a...

Hey Smitherz, looking really nice now. That filter pod thingy looks like a beer keg stuck on the end of your throttle! Mate, this made me laugh too. Mine was the same with transfer case adaption. Seems getting these motors into 4wds you have to spend a lot of time and effort on the...

POST ENGINE INSTALLATION: LPG Reinstallation The LPG re-install happened over a year ago but here it is now. Before reinstalling the LPG, I rerouted some of the heater hoses so that they ran back through the gas converter. I took the vehicle it back to the people who originally installed the...

POST ENGINE INSTALLATION: Autometer Coolant temp gauge I installed a Autometre coolant temp gauge (Celsius not Fahrenheit). The gauge went on the “A” pillar of the cabin. I cut the top radiator hose (the one from engine to radiator) and installed a 38mm adapter to fit the temp sensor sender...

POST ENGINE INSTALLATION: Powder Coating Part 2 I finally got around to re-powdercoating the plenum chamber and the valve covers. Because I turned the plenum around the conventional 1UZ plastic engine covers no longer fit around the valve covers and plenum. So to make it all look a bit more...

MISCELLANEOUS MODIFICATIONS: NARVA INTERIOR FLURO LIGHT Again, not engine conversion related but this may be of interest to some. Since the factory interior light is complete shizer and you are better off using a match, I got one of these. A 12 volt, 13 watt fluorescent interior dome...

POST ENGINE INSTALLATION: Replaced rear window motor This isn't really related to the engine conversion But I thought it worth mentioning as it may help some of you guys. The rear window motor was slowly clagging out so I went to the wreckers to get a new one. I thought these would be...

POST ENGINE INSTALLATION: Aluminium radiator hose bend I put this 38mm alloy bend in as the old rubber bend that delivered coolant from the bottom of the radiator back into the engine came close to the top fan housing on the new radiator fan shroud setup. I didn’t want them inadvertently...

POST ENGINE INSTALLATION: Replacement of 4runner V6 tacho with Hilux petrol 4 cylinder tacho Sorry guys, been a bit busy of late and have not posted here for a while. I completed most of this stuff last year but have only recently gotten around to writing it up and posting it. As the...

V8BOSS, Any more issues? did you get to the bottom of this ghost in the machine?

Sorry lex, forgot to mention it does the same when I run a search.

Thanks for getting back to us mate. It is interesting that charge (alternator and battery issues) can cause problems with the idle. Hope your vehicle is running OK now.

Looks like a pygmy school bus.

Hey, Does anyone else find that the "New Posts" and the "Mark Forums Read" hyperlinks in the blue bar at the top of the page are not working since the server went down? I have tried both Google chrome and windows explorer and the both load a completely blank page when i click on them. Is...