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Other then the 3.slow itself Toy doesn't usually sell poor quality mechanical parts.

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Oooo, yikes. That there is Frank-bait.
You did neglect to mention, birfields... upgradeable, however...
The boys at Marlin find the W56 ok, but the R150/R151 much more ok'er. $200 rebuild kit, and the W is more ok again I guess.
BUT, for the purposes of this thread... the W is irrelevant. No way to mate it to my knowledge. Open to increasing knowledge...

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Man I'm a day late and dollar short on this thread. Actually, I read it with great interests as one of these days my old motor is going to kick the bucket. But for now it has 276,000 miles, is bone stock,and will pack all but maybe the heavily built 2.4's in a pipe and smoke 'em all day long.

I still say the 3.slow is much longer lasting then the 2.ungodly-slow-that-shoud-get-an-award-for-being-the-most-swapped-OUT-motor-in-a-Toyota-4 and is much more pleasant to drive. My buddy is buying a 1st gen runner and I think of you guys a lot because about 2/3rd's of them are "engine rebuilt 30K ago" while the 3.0's are stock and running srong with much higher miles. But don't mind me! Enginebuilder needs your dough!

I think this thread is on the right track and I'd say Toyota agrees: we need bigger motors if we wanna go fast and not sacrifice longetivity.

Frank

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1994 4runner, 3.0, auto, 4.88's, 31's, BJ spacers, Coil spacers, air shocks, D-ring anchors, 4Crawler F/R swaybar discos.
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