My brothers 89 yota pickup died this weekend and I need to do some research on engine swap options. It has a 3.0 V6 in it and has around 208,000 miles on it. The thing still runs but the head gasket is bad. It blows all the coolent out the overflow. He did some checking around and its gona cost him around $2000 to have new head gaskets put in it. Sounds high to me but thats his uncles shop that quoted him that so I dought they are hosing him on the estimate. I am wondering if yota uses the same bell housing on all its engines or if each one is diferent. We are wondering if we could swap in a 4cylinder to get him buy for anoughther year or so. He is in collage and cant aford a $2000 head gasket bill. He is thinking abought getting an entire diferent truck but that means a payment he curently dont have. If he gets a diferent truck I may take this one and put a motor in it for a daily driver. Any ideas on what to do or links to yota sites would be great. Thanks.

 

www.tacomaterritory.com really good site

 

There, like Black said, and this is a great site for Toyota info too

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=12

 

Thanks for the links. I already found some usefull info that ansers my questions about bellhousings after just skiming for a few minutes.

 

http://www.tundrasolutions.com is another good one, but more geared toward the Tundra.