The dealer won't do the HG recall more than once. I used to work at Toyota and have seen these trucks have HG's blow 2 or 3 times.

Having said that, I am looking for a 1989 to 1995 extra cab right now and I would buy either engine, but then again, I can do the gaskets myself and it's not so expensive. I have never owned a 3.0 but I have owned five 22re's and I love them, very simple and tough engines, but they are a bit weak for cruising 80mph back home to CO, although around town they are fine. Timing chains can be done in about four hours and with a steel backed guide this issue is minor.

While it's true that bolt on's won't equal the power, a cam, headers, and port job will come close, if you won't take my word for it, ask engnbldr. Also, you can do more work and get even more power out of a 22re, a 3.0 just isn't very suseptible to mods.

I had a 13 year toyota tech for an auto instructor in tech school and he thought that the crossover pipe had something to do with the 3.0 HG failure. He seemed to think that the rear cylinders were the ones that usually failed and it was caused, at least to some extent, by the heat from the crossover. If this is the case, headers would fix the problem. Has anyone else ever heard this?