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To circle back to the vane actuator rod repair, here are a couple of pictures of the "fix". It doesn't look amazing, but it doesn't hit anything and it fixed the overboost CEL. I think actual is still higher than requested, but by less. I also grabbed a video of it idling, warm-ish. To me...

I sent him what I have, but I'm not sure if it'll be useful. Maybe the combo will be? I do know that the 06A and the 058 blocks are pretty different, though.

That's cool! Looks like a 058 block with the intermediate shaft driven oil pump, like an AHU.

Makes sense. I'll just add the in tank and leave it at that for now.

I also started prepping for to swap over to a 121-pin ecu. I won't actually do it for a while, but I wanted to see what would be involved. It's so close I feel like I could almost make an adapter. I ran to the Upull yard and was able to snag an ECU from a manual 03 Beetle tdi and the ECU...

Do we worry about air/water separation other than the stock filter or prefiltration? Not that I need to add more things to the plate, but I'm already looking at installing a late mk4 in-tank pump into the Tacoma tank. Soooo, while I'm in there...

As Jordan said, I have some 3D scans that I did for my ALH swap. I'm not sure what you're looking for in terms of detail, but I can certainly share what I have. I did lose a hard drive to failure since then, so what I do have is more limited than I'd like.

It hurt my soul. But I'm a man of science.

For fun, on my way back to MN across Wisconsin today I ran 5th gear the whole way. Basically at 2250 rpm the whole time. The EGTs sat between 1150-1450 degF the whole time, with the exception of downhill. I didn't love the EGTs, but it was for science... With only one data point in each...

If I'm that low in RPM at highway speed, 4th or 5th gear, my EGTs are way up. They would sit much closer to 1250 degF. At 3k-ish they are at least 200 degF cooler. Do you think some of this could be corrected with tuning? I will say that the engine doesn't feel like it really revs nice and...

Drove home across Wisconsin yesterday to see family for the 4th and I ran a few mini trials. Things I learned based on all your feedback and then trying it, because I live my life according to Ronald Reagan. “Trust but verify” 1. The truck really does seem to prefer cruising at 3000rpm. I don't...

Ha! I'll just do a regear and ARB locker on the current axle. I already have onboard air, so nothing to add but the line to the back.

I'm very interested to see what you end up with for a turbo. I think our setups are close enough that they should perform similarly. After my thread and this one, I've been all over the place on the 2060 or the 1756 or the 1752. I really don't want to sacrifice lower end power for upper end...

Ha! I'm not sure I've ever even revd this thing to 4k. I'm way interested in the power between 1500 - 3000 for what I typically use the truck for.

Oooh! I'll dig into this one. Seems 100% relevant to this exact conversation!! Thanks

That's not a bad idea. Maybe I'll look into that also. I wonder if the FJ Cruiser ever had 4.30 gears... I love daydreaming about a 6-speed and AWD. I also reached out to East Coast Gear Supply about finding and installing 4.30 front gears. I'm confident I can do the rear, but the front seems...

This was all in 4th gear, BTW.

Ok, I just had to run down to the office, so I took a little video cruising on the highway at about 70mph. There is some flat, some uphill and some downhill. Sort of nearish the beginning I also run from 70mph up to about 90mph, mostly to short that it's not too hard to get the EGTs up to 1600...

I definitely find myself wanting to be between two gears right now, which I think regearing would help a lot with. This is the first truck I've ever built, but I've built a ton of cars over the years, so finding what I like and don't like on a truck had been fun. I don't really like being on...