Kewl, I've read a zillion of your posts. You've been more help than you'll ever know.
Crap wrenchers? Check this out...went out a little while ago to show the old lady how she's gonna help guide a socket attached to a wretched circus of extensions onto the 2 top bellhousing bolt heads when we pull the engine.
One of the bolts ain't there! And, it's the one on the exhaust manifold side that's missing. You'd think the guy would at least have failed to complete the one on the more difficult intake side. Sheesh.
After all the missing things we've found and obtained replacements for, we just had to stand there shaking our heads upon discovery of the missing bell to engine block bolt. I mean, REALLY.
When I unplugged the connectors mid lower steering column to deal with the ignition switch, a bunch of .22 mag spents spilled out. Actually, that was pretty cool. This truck has good spirit. I can feels it, I tells ya.
My garage (and, actually house) looks like a 1st gen Toy parts warehouse, so I use a spare timing cover to hold the bolts during a job. Turned out to be more accurate than the piece of crap drawing I did, which looked more like a rabbit than a mechanical part. Add some whiskers and woo hoo, you gots a bunny, friend.
Which of the bolts on the front of the engine will make trouble if swapped wrong, other than the top oil pump bolt? So far, it seems he got the bolts in the right places. He just didn't install a bunch of 'em
The fuel filter relo. Mercy...whoever designed the original setup was some kind of psycho. I pity the gal who has to bed down with that fellow. On a rig that has seen some dirt, it can be hard to get it all buttoned up without getting things dirty. Those damn copper washers getting dropped and lost, lots of bad language an' woe, hard to get a torque wrench on it, leak more difficult to spot. Not my kind of deal.
On the motorhome, I took the stock hose to the hose shop, they quickly cut off the ends and crimped up a new one, a few inches longer, for 15 bones. Piece of cake.
Next time around on the 4Runner, it struck me to just reroute the hose from the fuel filter out to fuel rail. A friend ran his out thru the middle of the intake, but I didn't like the bend of the hose (snicker), so mine leaves the fuel rail forward under the throttle body, then bends around to the fender well.
All 3 relos I've been part of put the filter near the fusebox. OEM bracket is discarded, two hairy coarse thread hex head screws thru carefully drilled pilot holes attach filter to body. Between filter holes and body I install a short (~1/2") piece of PVC as a standoff, lets me button down the screws nice and tight and the filter sits solidly.
The finger thingees that hold the banjo fittings in place are not an issue. Disregard them and position everything to get a smooth lay for your hose (slaps knee).
It's great to not have to struggle with the fuel line as part of a much larger job. Zap...she's off. Zap...she's on, and it took less effort to set up than it would have taken to put it back in the factory location! I'll post photos.
I keep picturing the PO installing the timing chain tensioner with the Earthquake zip gun Santa done brung him from Harbor Freight.
