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Great write-up and the excellent pics really add to the quality of your documentation. I've purchased books on other engine swaps that had less detail and pictures than you have here. You have really taken the time to record the info and take corresponding pictures that tell a complete story for all the visual learners out there. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

I too am a visual learner......But then again sometimes I learn the best from just jumping in head first!

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Well today it seemed like I couldn't get anything done! I just kept running into one problem after another and having to make parts runs......

The only major problem to tackle & finished today was the radiator hoses. I spent probably a good hour down at Napa looking at their wall of hoses to find something I could make work. Luckily I made a pretty good sketch of what I needed so I got what I needed the first time.

For the lower hose I ended up buying these two hoses and cutting and splicing them together. This worked out pretty good.



For the upper hose I bought this one to cut and rotate.



Here is how the upper one turned out. Pretty clean for what I'm dealing with.



And here is the lower one. I also plumbed my power steering into the tranny cooler in the radiator.



I also made a support bar for the lower bolt for the hood latch.



And this is how it pretty much looks like right now. Got the coil installed, Main battery, washer fliud, radiator overflow, dual battery isolator, power steering reserve, Winch, grill, etc....

I think I'm just about ready to put the hood back on.... after I finish mounting the other battery and weeding out some of the old 22RE wires on the driver side fender.

Well all I did today was work on the wiring. Cleaning up some of the old 22RE stuff and start soldering connections for the 7M. I probably got about 50% of it done.

Well I worked on the wiring some more today.... I think I got all the wiring finished in the passegner side kick panel. It looks a lot worse than it really is ... well I think so ...

A couple things that I changed was instead of using all the wiring for the 7M-GE Circuit Opening Relay, I just wired the existing one above the passenger side kick panel. my 4runner does not have a fuel pump relay or a fuel pump resistor, so I did have to use the one from the 7M-GE. I did not use a Starter relay like the Cressida US model, instead I wired it like the Canada Cressida that don't have a starter relay to eliminate a couple wires. Plus the 4runner does use one now either. But I did have to wire in a Starter Fuse which I did not show in my previous list.

So heres how it looks now....



And with the plastic trim installed.

Seems like I was out in the garage all today and I don't have anything to really show for it.... Most of the time was just cleaning up wires and dealing with little issues here and there.

I did get the battery tray for the second battery mounted. I also got the battery installed....

I some got presents today.........

First off, I finally got the Supra Oil-Pump! And that with the new toyota hardline and some gaskets I will be able to finally install the oil pan.



I had just enough room to slide the supra oil pump up into place with the 4runner on all fours.



Here is a side view of it.



And I also just barely had enough room to install the oil pan. And agian this is with the 4runner on all four tires under its own weight. Sure I could of jacked the 4runner up a bit but why....



I also finally got my 6 groove pulley for the York!!! Kenworth part number KA1480......



Hummmm....OBA......



And I also found this (1) wire in, 6 spade fuse holder at a 2-way radio store of all places. It was really just dumb luck on how I found it, but I did and thats the important part. I was almost ready to order one from SeaBass44 (12voltguy.com) but I found this one locally so I didn't have to wait for it. plus I think this fits a little better then the one's he offers for my application.

Anyways for this engine swap I'm now able to have dual bateries under the hood. So I decided to re-wire all my accessories to this one main fuse block, from the auxilliary battery, that will now be located under the dirver side kick panel. I'm also going to relocate the relays to the kick panel also. I normally have put this type of stuff in the engine bay, but it just looks ghetto to me having a bunch of single fuse holders, a row of relays stuck to the side of the fender with a spider web of wires between them. Plus I seem to always end up having to replace the relays due to moisture in the engine bay after going through Oregon Rain and Mud.

In the stretch home finally it seems?

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now quit goofing off and turn the damn key already!

IT RUNS

At lunch I bought some oil and one of those new quick drain plugs because this oil plug on this pan is right above the diff and I hate bouncing oil off the diff when you have to change the oil. I installed the new drain plug. I filled the engine up with oil. I stripped the ends of the two remaining wires I needed to connect and shoved them in the EFI relay (in the correct spots of course). Connected the battery ground and turned the key. After about 10 seconds of cranking it fired right up!!!! I'm so freak'n amazed I got everything right the first time. I just can't believe it! I'm never that good! and considering this is my first motor conversion and dealing with that many wires I'm just shocked.... I honesty expected it least 2-3 wires in the wrong place. Even when I rebuilt my 22RE it took about three times of little stupid stuff I had to tweak before it would fire. But this fired right up and I even had it stripped down to the block just a week ago. So then I ran inside and grabbed the digital camera for a quick video.

So in the video its actually me turning the key for the very second time!!!Now granted I sound like a dork in the video and there is no exhaust (exhaust manifold only) and I haven't done any tuning yet and I don't have coolant in the radiator but it runs! Also you will notice the brake light is on in the video but thats because I haven't bleed the clutch master yet so the e-brake is pulled and the tranny is in neutral. also the RPMS look really high because this is a 4cylinder tach on a 6 cylinder engine. I just haven't modified the tack yet so it reads 150% of what the actual rpm is.

Now unfortionately I'm back at work and I put the video on a disc at the
house but I didn't test it befor eI left the house and the disc is bad.... so you guys are going to have to wait a bit for the video.....

But like a I said before:

IT RUNS!!!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

Day -3 - June 06, 2005 - decide that I'm going to do a 7M motor swap.

Day -1 - June 08, 2005 - Found wrecking yard with motor and paid for it.

Day 01 - June 10, 2005 - Got motor from wrecking yard and almost all the other required componets.

Day 03 - June 12, 2005 - Motor tore down to a short block. (block, crank, rods, pistons)

Day 09 - June 18, 2005 - Motor is now completely reassemblied.

Day 09 - June 18, 2005 - Pulled 22RE from the 4Runner.

Day 14 - June 23, 2005 - Wrecking yard finally got me a Supra Oil Pan.

Day 16 - June 25, 2005 - Donor car wiring harness stripped down and labeled.

Day 17 - June 26, 2005 - 7M installed into 4runner.

Day 21 - June 30, 2005 - Radiator and fan mounted.

Day 25 - July 04, 2005 - Wiring almost complete and dual batteries installed.

Day 26 - July 5, 2005 - Finally received a new supra oil pump and got it installed.

Day 27 - July 6, 2005 - Cranked engine over for the first time and it fired right up!