Great Bill, I am hoping to join the club soon myself. I bet you want the supercharger in a month. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" />

Your rig just keeps getting better Bill. Now I want to race you. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I don't want to steal Mr Chili's thunder, but I cant resist.

Here is a teaser,

No thunder stolen, just trouble saved! FWIW, it seems every time Jake94 comes over, my life gets easier. I really, really am in trouble if he ever calls the debt due.

No blowers for me. Regular gas and intact ring gears por favor. Oh, and the intake roar? Priceless. Gonna hate hiding it with the hood. Deck plate mod my eye!

Harry, after driving the Taco I can see why Brian894x4 wants a sway bar or a track bar. I must have gotten used to it. With more power, comes the need for more attention. So you'd win any race.

Call Mike at Off Road Solutions and tell him you are hearing wonderful things about this mod to this truck. I think he's pretty discouraged due to 1) it taking so much longer than he or I thought, 2) his having to put more time into it than he felt good about charging me, making it unattractive for him to do another. He just needs to standardize the swap a la AllPro with SASes years ago, then turn them efficiently. For you jealous types out there, it ain't cheap! But after crawling around underneath, in, around, etc. it looks factory.

It's quite the major mod where, the closer you look, the more you see about how he went about it, and the more you like. I could have done this in, oh, a year maybe, but it wouldn't be as good as it is nor as reliable I'm sure.

I had him leave the easier details to me, like the hood, the shift tunnel, the shifters, the tach... uh... by the way, anybody know how to make an I-4 tach work with the 3.4? No, I mean really. I have JayK's article on the I-4 tach and a Chebbie V6, but mine reads 0 RPM, not something high. Mike admitted he had not tackled tachs.

She faces her virgin run tomorrow on Spring Creek. Nothing like being thrown to the lions on the first date, a 4+ trail.

I'd start with Mike's page on the swap on www.offroadsolutions.com. But, in short, just about everything, much of which I had done incrementally in the last couple years. To summarize-

Transmission (R151, but the new motor's R150 would work modified to accept the Crawlers.

Radiator, 3.0 V6 required.

Exhaust of course, Maremont 2.5" freeflow cat, full 2.5" system headers back, which was large (2.5" non-mandrel cat back sorta equivalent to 2.25 but not exactly) for a 22RE, but not anymore. My Flowmaster works fine. Really fine. Really really fine. Sooooo fine. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Not too loud, just there in a really pleasing way, esp. with the Can-Back with Jake and Mrs. Jake in the back, the lovely Mrs. Morgan shotgun, and a late-night Dairy Queen directly in our sights...

Drivetrain relocated approximately 3" forward, with the attendant complications including a shifter that snakes like that python in that really cheesy movie on the SciFi channel. I did the shifter snake to make Mike's life easier, I get to do it again now with more precision... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" />

New motor mounts, new crossmember mounts, custom crossover running very close to the firewall requiring thought, which Mike definitely put into it. New hoses of various origin, keep the 1996 emissions, and of course the wiring harness <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />. It's complicated enough to intimidate me, and I have a tech degree in electronics and use to inspect aerospace ground and flight electronics. So I'm picky- and I see NOTHING to grouse about, the harness is VERY nice. Two ODBII ports, one in-cab.

In short-short: gut the drivetrain and start over. It's a little involved to do really right, & make it factory. Got some admiration at the Burt Toyota service dept. yesterday, even crude as it is till I do the cosmetics. Except for the bonehead salesman who thought I should have done a V8 <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />. He has a 2004 4Runner with NOS. Oh, nice. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

RE the Tach...

A club member just did this swap in his 94 4Runner - see some info here:

Congrats!!!!.....Looks nice Bill

That sounds great until that NOS melts his pistons....Nitrous is great for the drag strip....and the drag strip.

Yeah, no doubt. Well, he is a salesman... DOH! No offense to salesmen on this board....

Thanks, Brian. Now that I recall, Mike did recommend doing the tach-guts swap. I shall have to mine the boneyards for one and explore the mysteries of my instrument cluster.

I'll have to ask Mike about that amplifier. I think he must have included it, because he said when I get the new A/C hoses made (he was going to do it, but I said I'd handle it), install them, and recharge with R134a, everything should work dandy. He doesn't have many rock crawler types who keep their AC, so he has done few of them.

Awwwwwwww Shucks......ain't nuttin'