Toyota 3.4 Liter 5VZ-FE Engine Replacement (Part 3 - New Engine Build-Up)

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*PLEASE READ THIS AND THE COMMENT WE PINNED*
This video is Part 3 or a 4 part video series showing you how to swap out the 3.4 liter V6 motor out of your 3rd Gen 4runner, 1st Gen Tacoma, Older Tundra or T100. In Part 1, we walked you through the steps of removing the old motor. In Part 2, we showed you how to strip down the old motor of the parts you’ll need to swap over to the new motor. In this part, Part 3, we show you how install all the necessary old parts and some new parts onto the new motor. In Part 4, we're going to show you how to install the new engine.

The vehicle we performed this job on is a 1997 4runner. If you have one of the earlier model 3rd Gen 4runners or earlier model 1st Gen Tacomas, T100, or older Tundra, your engine and engine compartment will pretty much look identical to the one we're working on. If you have one of the newer model 3rd Gen 4runners 2001 and 2002, or one of the newer 1st Gen Tacomas 2001 - 2005, you will notice slight differences. One is the throttle body design was changed and you will only have one cable attached to it, the throttle cable. The Evap canister on the 01 and 02 4runners isn't in the engine compartment, it's under the vehicle near the spare tire. Another difference you might see is in regards to the heater hoses. Rey's rig has the rear heater option but your rig might not have it. So, if you have the rear heater option, your heater hose routing will look identical. If you don't have a rear heater, you will notice less hoses to deal with.

There’s different ways to go about doing this job. We decided to follow the Toyota Factory Service Manual’s suggestion of 1st removing the transmission and transfer case out of the way. Some people decide to keep the transmission and transfer case bolted to the frame cross member. We thought it would be easier to mate up the transmission to the engine using a transmission jack as opposed to trying to mate up the engine to the transmission with the engine suspended on an engine hoist. We don’t show the necessary steps to pull the trans and transfer case because we already show that in two different video series, our Automatic Transmission Replacement Series and our Clutch Replacement Series (If you have a manual transmission). These series will give you all the information you need to either pull the transmission and transfer case out of the way like we did, or give you the information you need to know on how to separate the engine from the transmission if you’re going to keep the transmission and transfer case in place on the frame. Here’s links to those video series:

Auto Trans Replacement    • Toyota 4Runner Auto Transmission Replaceme...  
Clutch Replacement    • Clutch Replacement (Part 1)  


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*TOOLS USED*
In a comment we pinned (1st comment listed in video), we provide a comprehensive list of all the tools we used while performing this job.


*PARTS LIST*
In this Google Doc, we provide a comprehensive list of the parts we replaced while performing this job. You won’t necessarily need to replace all the parts that we did but we wanted you to have the part numbers in case you wanted to replace some of them.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x...




*TORQUE VALUES*
In this Google Doc, we provide you with a comprehensive list of all the torque values. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i...