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Said it before and I will say it again. Absolutely no one has done more for the 3rd gen 4Runner community than Tim and Sean. No one. Thanks for all the sweat you guys put in to help educate the community with well edited, very detailed and high quality videos.

3rd gen owners rejoice! Awesome resource for those of us doing motor swaps. Thanks a ton!

I've been a 3rd Gen 4Runner owner for almost 5 years now and thought I knew it all...not even close, learned a ton from this series....Thanks Timmy!

This series was a grand slam! I suspect my 02 Tacoma is going to need a new engine sooner rather than later due to a lot of deferred maintenance by the previous owners and was hoping you would come out with a engine swap vid! There's TONS of great info and camera angles in here that I just couldn't find in any forum posts or even in my service manuals. Big thank to you guys for tackling this big project AND documenting it!

During my ordeal with my 2004 Tacoma I will be returning to this series many times. DIY-ers can not hope to find a better or more detailed guide. Thank you

Just finished swapping my 3.4 motor in my 1999 4 runner. I found these videos extremely helpful and highly recommend watching before you do any work on your Toyota. I replaced my motor with a used 3.4 out of a wrecked 99 4 runner with 156k for $600 (I rolled the dice on buying a motor like that for $$$ reasons and would recommend spending more $$ on a refurbished or JDM motor if you the $$$) I replaced rear main seal, timing belt water pump, radiator and some other smaller parts. Steering rack and Tye rods and sway bar brackets bushings all with the help Timmy the tool man’s videos. At a coast $1,800. Couple recommendations. Be careful tightening the bolts the will break off or strip out! I went to my local Toyota dealer they print out the torque spec for me. Thanks again Timmy the tool man for you help!

A hard job done well by all of you and the video documentation was awesome. No doubt this will be of great help to anyone taking on this challenge, thanks for sharing Timmy.

Great series! I will be referencing this for sure when it comes time to swap out my engine in my 96 4runner. It's got 237K right now and looks like there's a lot of gunk built up under the oil cap. Hopefully it runs a lot longer but if worse comes to worst I'll be swapping the old engine out as I can't imagine giving up on this truck. Best vehicle I've ever owned.

Thank You So much, your videos were instrumental in achieving doing my own engine swap. Was definitely challenging as f&@$, and I got help from my sons. But pulled it off with your guidance!!! My old 1996 T100 is back on the road! Woot woot!

Good job! Will be watching this series again in the future. Packed full of useful information.

Underrated channel Forsure definitely the best toyota channel out every thing is detailed and explained so anyone can get it thank you you helped me learn how to take my power lock acuator out

Hi Timmy, I just wanted to thank you for making this video series. I discovered that the 4th cylinder on my old engine had been bored out when it started misfiring on 3/6 of the cylinders 2.5 weeks ago. I just finished swapping in a new engine today that has 128k miles on it and it started right up. I'm going into my senior year of high school and it would have been way too expensive for me to have a shop do the work for me. Thanks again and please keep making videos. p.s. if you ever made any merch I would definitely get some

Super series guys. Seeing the swap from start to finish was great. I also learned a bit seeing the engine out when you stripped the old and reassembled the new. It tied a few things together for me from your other videos. I'll be resting easy knowing if I ever need to do this, I can. Thanks.

You guys did a fantastic job on this video series. Thank you. I love late nights in the garage!

Good work boys and thank you for all the content.

I appreciate the details and effort you put into making this video! It's a solid tutorial!

Great Job on the Documentary! Great work you guys! I love ❤️ watching your videos. I was waiting for part 4 videos & I kept checking & checking. 5 ⭐️

Job well done, Timmy. So much easier to take things off and put back on with the motor on the stand. I just finished swapping out 2 rebuilt heads on my 2002 4Runner, did a complete timing belt and new radiator it was not an easy job. Exhaust manifold and cross over pipe was a bear to figure out to make it all work. I don't know you do it, filming while you are working on these trucks are not fun. I cursed so many times it's not fun.

Great job! Have a success in further !

Tim and/or Sean, it is literally insane to me you guys pulled this off. What an amazing feeling of accomplishment you must have had after hearing the startup. I'm just curious for Tim - Did you read through every step of the FSM before attempting this or did you see other forum posts/videos on it before it gave you the confidence that you can 100% pull this off? This is no easy task even for a DIY'er. Or was some of it 'uncharted' territory from your POV and you would 'see' what happens? Obviously I assume it also helps that you have everything on video in case re-assembly gets confusing, you can see what you 'did' to do disassembly etc, but still it's a huge job. I hope my question makes sense, thanks!

Timmy Love your channel even though I don’t own a 3rd gen 4Runner but I do have a first gen 4.7 tundra hopefully you’ll eventually get a few of those through your garage. If not I still enjoy your videos and learn a ton. Thanks

Well done!!!!!. I was waiting for this part. Good luck for the owner. I'm going to watch the other parts as well

Great perseverance Brother Tim!! Those exhaust gaskets have different configurations too- I found out the hard way.

Awesome as always! You guys rock. I thoroughly enjoyed this 4 part series. Makes me motivated to get started on mine. Nice job!

Appreciate the video! Tons of great info! Doing a engine swap now in my 99 limited

Wwooo! What a successful job you’ve done. Timmy, you’re numero uno.👍

Just got a '98, watching this to learn all about the engine and it's been super helpful. Where do y'all go to buy a new motor? Mines got 220k on it and I'm looking to preemptively buy a replacement for it.

Excellent series of videos.

Great informative video series turned out sweet

GREAT JOB THANKS SO MUCH SIR.

LOL I was almost certain you were going to take the Part 1 video and just play it in reverse for Part 4!

Congrats Timmy

Great work guys

Mahalo (Thank you) for making a very informative video !

Hope same day you work on my 4ruuner Best job👍

Great video as always! I was curious how is this engine is holding up after 2 years?

Hey thanks much much for the videos! I'm half way through the job. Just curious if there's a way to oil prime the engine if it's been sitting awhile I have a engine from a junk yard and want oil to be around the engine before I start it.

Great work!

Rey lives close to me

Hey Timmy have you seen or heard of anyone doing a swap with the newer 4.0L on a 3Gen and about how much did this job cost if someone was looking to do it? I think my 97 could use a refresh. Thanks love the channel 🤙🏼

Timmy, i have a trd supercharger and im sure that may alter the vacume hose routing. Does the larger vacume hose that is placed on the metal hose on drivers side rear of the new engine have a connection on the yota1 engine drivers side valve cover??

is there any major differences in a 3.4 out of a 02 4runner than a 3.4 out of a 97 t100 i am putting a 3.4 out of a 02 4runner into my 97 t100 4x4 is there any thing i have to change besides the oil pan and oil dipstick and the throttle body

Good stuff, as always 👍👍

7:13...Why aligning the exhaust but not the 5speed? Exhaust is the very last thing to do.

hi is there a diagram for the hoses for the throttle body on the v6 3rd gen motors

Hey Timmy, high idle question. IAC and TPS are new. Sitting at 1500 in drive and neutral. Started yesterday. Didn’t do it when I first drove it this morning but it’s back. Temp gauge seems to be reading slightly low as well. Any tips on where to start. 97 SR5.

I made a playlist on my channel for these videos for people to see if they need them Timmy hope that is okay brother

You never showed hooking up the transmission I really wanted to see that

Idk if you mention it in the vid but, what spark plugs does Toyota recommend for the 2003 taco 3.4 5vzfe single or double electrodes?? I can’t find anything n the dealerships in my area said didn’t help. Thing is I wana order iridium denso but can only find single elec not double. Is it safe to go single ??

Thanks for posting. I had a bit of a fire and the wires going into the transmission are all burnt up. From this video - it looks like I'll need to replace the engine wiring harness - as the transmission wiring is all part of the engine wiring harness. Does that sound right? Thanks!

Okay so I'm putting a new 3.4 l in my 2002 Tacoma prerunner. Being an automatic two wheel drive rig do I really need to take the transmission out?

Question. If I wanna swap 4cyl .for 6cyl I have to make a lot modifications o only engine and trasmission

Tim I may have made a mistake let me know. I replaced my 3.4l in my Tacoma. I picked up a 3.4l that was off a 2wd truck. I switched the oil pans but I forgot to change out the sump and I’m sure the sump is a lot shorter. Is this a problem? Do I need to swap them out if so. What would be easier? Pulling the motor back out or dropping the front diff and all the front suspension components ? I really don’t want to split the motor and the trans again. That was a bitch to put back together. Thank you sir let me know

I just did this with my father and we have no crank but no start, any suggestions ? (I’ve already got new starter relay,new starter)

Timmy, next time use super clean on those old parts and use a pressure washer !!!!

Yeah 💯💯💯

Is it really normal for my 3.4 V6 1997 Tacoma to have 15 psi of oil pressure when the oil gets hot? Thanks!

Timmy I noticed you forgot to reconnect the middle connector for the ignition coil

You guys are so fucking bad ass. But man, 4k just for the engine, let alone all the other parts y'all replaced. Shit ton of money dropped into just this engine swap lol. Do you guys have any recommendations for trans/tcase companies?

Eres un crak 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Did you have to pull the tranny or can be done without removing

Let us know how good the engine runs when they get to AZ ! Does he notice a huge difference or not ? 👍

Yota motors have a website?

Sicmods!

Note to self: DONT ATTEMPT THIS ON YOUR OWN. I’m at 399,995, weighing the options...