well the 22RE blew a head gasket tonight my oil is a milkshake. I can't catch a break right? I guess it couldn't have come a better time since I have almost everything for the 4.3 swap.

 

If your interested, I have a new in box 1" body lift by 4crawler ultimate blocks, bed spacers, and HD hardware. 2" ball joint spacers and doetsch 9000 shocks for front and rear too.

 

thanks but the only thing i might be interested in might be the body lift. was gonna order one with my stuff from summit. does your kit include bumper relocation brackets and stuff for the brakes?

 

got the 22re out today with some help from my buddies. 4.3 is waiting at the machine shop ready. only problem is that summit backordered my pressure plate. they told me it would ship out the day that I received my other parts but i got a postcard today that told me it would not get it till the 29th kinda upset about that but i guess that gives me 2 weeks to get everything set up even though i don't need it. hopefully going to continue working on it into the night and replace the outer tie rod ends and do the zuk mod.

 

yes i know. only one shock is on ha

 

cant wait to see this

 

Ahah retro pictures. I like it.

 

haha thanks my buddy took some pics with his iphone and thats the way he sent them in the email. picking up my 4.3 tomorrow and i'll have some pictures of that up as well. i'm going to take the pressure washer to the bottom of the bed with some degreaser and clean that up and apply some undercoating in the near future. i'm also gonna undercoat the engine bay.

 

Nice build, I'm doing a 4.3 swap in my 87 pickup, best of luck

 

I need some help, tell me whether this is worth my money to put into my 93 v6 pickup. Just want some more power getting up into the mountains. Any other suggestions? My truck is extra cab with a pacesetter cat back exhaust on it otherwise stock

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thanks RPM8080 best of luck to you too!

welcome to yotatech but i think there is a better place to ask that question and/or you should search this site. there is plenty of info on here to beef up your 3.slow this is my build up thread, i would be more than happy to answer some questions about my truck and anything that i have done do it. butttttt to answer your question to the best of my ability i'm sure you would gain some performance since your ECU would be chipped and your A/F ratio would change across the map. i just don't know how much you would actually gain since your motor is stock.

 

Up late too, it's late on the east coast......Bill

 

yup sure am. pretty sure i'm an insomniac lol but it lets me work really late on the truck

 

Copy that, got in from work @1 and I know the feeling....

 

11 hours down and the steering spindles are still left to put inn, its been one hell of night with no sleep and sore backs. Thanks to the guy i bought the lift from, we're having to run to the hardware store to get 4 5/8"x4" bolts that should have came with the kit..whats new! 3 more hours and itll be a solid 24 hours if craziness! ARGH!!!!

 

we finally finished getting everything on except the sway bar drop brackets because i need to get new sway bar bushings. i ended up getting new ball joints because i figured i would need them down the line and mine were pretty shot. heres some pics.
pictures of the brackets for the diff drop. everything is really dirty from my leaky 22re
view of the lift from the front
view from the side
now for some photos of the now 4.6L



let me know what you guys think. i'm pretty stoked about the progress that i have been making. my buddy has had a big part in this and he has helped do everything. wouldn't be anywhere near this w/o him.

 

I have really been slacking lately. Been working a lot and also going to school full time. The 4.3 is in and matted to the W56C. I would have hoped to be driving my truck by now but have had a lot of BS thrown into everything. Here are some pics

We had to take the front wheels off to have enough room to get the motor high enough and with enough angle to get it in.


View of the clearance in the front with the 31x10.50's. I want to keep the front valence on there.


4.3 is in there


Found my Dads center caps from his 82. Gonna see if they will work with my rims.

 

I love it dude good luk