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That was my worry, and why I was thinking with the head off would be easiest. I do kind of like the valve to valve method, though I tend to be an oaf at times, so I'm a little worried that I would get too excited and bend a valve... Appreciated, but I definitely don't trust those crank timing...

I reached out to Performance Diesel Injection about rebuilding the injection pump and injectors. I'll be out of town next week and then I need to part out an E36 M3 real quick. After that I think I'll bring the truck to my shop and pull those out and send them off. At the same time I'll get my...

This is all super helpful. I'm running a 255/85R16, which is about 33.5in tall. With the W59 0.81 5th gear and 4.56 I would be at 3000rpm at 80mph. I think that would help sooooo much around town.

Another note on the truck and swap. I always thought the 3rz was super underpowered from age and general not goodness. But with the swap up and running it still feels much slower than I expected. I know it's larger than a golf, but it doesn't weigh that much more. When I bought the truck it had...

Box and topper back on without much drama it was time to wrap up the wiring. I started in the engine bay. You’ve seen the chaos pics of the wiring all over the place, but I took the wiring from each sensor on the trans and engine and heat shrink loomed it and labeled it. Where there were loom...

I should probably figure out the fuel system and maybe not keep running it on a Gatorade bottle filled with diesel and Marvel Mystery Oil… As you can see in the prior picture and this one, I made a little mounting bracket for the OG mk4 fuel filter to sit in the engine bay. On the tank...

I need a throttle pedal, so let’s take a stab at it. Like normal I 3D scanned the Tacoma floor in the cab and tossed it into CAD. I loaned out my original mk4 pedal and the replacement I got back ended up being from a Euro A4 tdi. This turned out to be advantageous, because the pedal is...

Time to wrap up the power steering. Previously I had shown that I adapter the VW power steering pump and the steering rack to -6 AN. I also used a BMW E30 power steering reservoir clamped to the oil filter housing with a bracket designed for E46 race cars. The last bit to finalize was the...

A/C. We’re gonna keep it around. I started by 3D scanning the side of the block, the A/C compressor, and the VW Passat A/C bracket. I tossed those into CAD and started messing around with mounting and tensioning options. I ended up with an adapter bracket similar to what Jimbote had...

Absolutely. What do you want specifically? The scans or the fab drawings?

I'll have a real update soon, but for now...

A few weeks ago I finally backed it out of the shop and drove it around. Currently working on rust prevention on the rear frame and setting the fuel tank up for diesel, as I had been running it on a Gatorade bottle full of diesel....

Radiator parts showed up too. This was a little more of a pain in the butt as I found a hole in the first radiator I was sent, so I had to order a second. That one was a bit better, so I cut the original end tanks off and test fit my redesigned end tanks. Then end tanks get welded on. I’m...

Lots of progress here. I ordered a new shifter bushing a long time ago and decided to swap it out before I refill the trans. Glad I did, because it was GONE and bits fell into the trans when I pulled the shifter out. I also added this little brace to the downpipe, wrapped the downpipe...

I wanted to make sure that all my wiring modifications worked, so I grabbed a new battery and bled the injectors. I was surprised that I fired right off.

That's a good idea. I should toss a dial indicator on it.

@PickleRick What are you running for a turbo? I was hoping that with a turbo upgrade, but mild tune, the egts would stay in a better place and need less monitoring. Thoughts?

Like PickleRick said, I think this will be good. The Civic radiator is wider than half the Tacoma rad and is twice the thickness, being a 4 core as opposed to the factory 2 core. I have an electric fan I'll be putting on as well with the OEM VW switch. We'll see, though!

On to wiring. I really like to fully understand things, so I reverse engineered the tdi harness. I finished trimming and depinning what I didn’t need and am at the point where power and ground should be enough to start the engine. I’ve also taken it to the next level by putting together full...

I have been working on this pretty regularly, but mostly not interesting low visual appeal parts; New diff and trans seals, rebuilding and reinstalling axles, etc. Some of the more notable items. I ordered a custom radiator in April with an eta of 3-4 weeks. 10 weeks into waiting they were...