Ok,

I was cruising all the web and ran into some posts in regards to the crank bolt falling out of various Toyota engines and causing no end of damage to the snout of crankshaft and causing mega bucks worth of repair costs.

I just put my 3VZE back in my '89 Runner and did not buy a new crank bolt. My FSM from '89 does not say that the crank bolt is a non-re-usable item. It specifies 181 ft-lbs for the torque.

On the web I find postings (yotatech.com) that indicate the bolt should be replaced and that the torque on later 3.4's was specified at 217 ft-lbs and that the bolt is non re-usable.

Any opinons on the relevence to the 3VZE? I have not problem tearing back into it and tightening/replacing that bolt.

I have a 5mge in my supra that the crank pulley fell off after having timing belt done.I am sure it was from lack of tork and reusing old bolt

I re-used mine on my 3vze and no problems.

But I did see one come loose on a 5vzfe when I worked at Toyota.

for piece of mind you could always use some loc-tite and re torque it.

Locktite and torque, no need to replace!!

Thanks gents,

I think I will pull the crank bolt tomorrow, put some thread locker on it, and re-torque just to be sure. After all the cleaning, painting, bead blasting, oh, and the monetary expense of rebuilding this thing, I would hate to trash the crank and then have to tear it all out again.

Most disappointing thing about this dropped valve seat is the fact that I was weeks away from dropping on a GearSlug adapter for my A340H and doing a dual case setup. Now, money was spent on getting the motor back together and running. Probably put me 6 months behind plan, which means, no low gears for this summer. Ah well, maybe by deer season in the fall.