A couple of years ago I was working on a customer's 2007 Lexus RX350, putting a new serp belt, tensioner and idlers in. The next his wife took it out of town and it stopped running. Guy calls me up and immediately I fear for the worst! I thought to my self, oh no, what did I do!? It shows up on a flat bed and go out to inspect and to my relief, the degas nipple at the radiator failed and leaked all the coolant out... She drove it till it stopped.. No compression. They really didn't want to repair as the engine was quite spend for used, so it sat in my lot for better than a year. Around last December he comes in for some service work and I cornered him and shot him a low ball offer of $500 and to my surprise, he accepted! This thing, aside from the bad engine is clean! Zero rust and perfect interior. The mechanicals needed a little attention, but with 160k, it's to be expected..
So we sold her Lincoln Aviator and funded the RX build. Sourced a JDM 3.5 with the usual "60k miles", bought a slug of parts from the local Toyota dealer, a set of injectors from Trav, all new brake pads, rotors, a new radiator, battery, tires and probably some other odds/ends I'm forgetting..
Here she is waiting to get stuff disconnected before eating up lift time
The jdm motor looks pretty clean, so had high hopes
Here's the old mill, prior to being extracted
Removal wasn't too hard actually, I removed the engine harness from the ecm and laid it over the engine, a few cooler lines, rad hoses, steering and... Not a whole lot more? Then sat the subframe on jack stands, unbolted it and lifted the car free.. Easy peasy.
Here it is looking sorry for itself
So we sold her Lincoln Aviator and funded the RX build. Sourced a JDM 3.5 with the usual "60k miles", bought a slug of parts from the local Toyota dealer, a set of injectors from Trav, all new brake pads, rotors, a new radiator, battery, tires and probably some other odds/ends I'm forgetting..
Here she is waiting to get stuff disconnected before eating up lift time
The jdm motor looks pretty clean, so had high hopes
Here's the old mill, prior to being extracted
Removal wasn't too hard actually, I removed the engine harness from the ecm and laid it over the engine, a few cooler lines, rad hoses, steering and... Not a whole lot more? Then sat the subframe on jack stands, unbolted it and lifted the car free.. Easy peasy.
Here it is looking sorry for itself