4Rescue
Expedition Leader
I SOLVED THE OIL-PAN MYSTERY!!!!!!!!! Oh what a happy day it's been... Dave at Japan4x4 put it in the post Monday and it showed up at the shop YESTERDAY so frankly that's just unreal. he knew I was badly in need of the part and he knew I'd gotten the wrong part and wasn't trying to return one for the other and he got it to me... FAST. I gotta admit I was kinda nervous that we'd just gotten "another wrong part"... It was sitting in the office and I went at it like the most over-wrapped X-mas present I'd ever seen and once I got it out I knew we were looking good, clearance in the right place, the sump well in the right place for the strainer head to reach down into it... Then I put it on the Engine... VIOLA!!!! I now have a 4WD KZN130 oil-pan.
Looking good... that's where I need the "dimple"
A sweeter sight I've not seen as of late...
Strainer going right where it's supposed to...
I've also been a bit perplexed as to what age/vintage of 1KZ-TE I have and one thing that made me kinda curious is that MY oil-filler neck on the VC is on the left (looking at the front of the truck into the bay) side and has a pronounced, longer neck. Well I've found this is more common with the KZN185 era 1KZ-TE's so it's likely a newer engine then I had originally thought. now I'm having nightmares that it may be one of those dreaded "imobilizer" equipped (it's in the engine ECU and completely non-defeatable) 185 series Engines, BUT being that it definitely did NOT come out of a 4wd truck, I think I may be in the clear and not all "later" 1KZ-TE's had this issue but it's not unheard of. In reality, once the engines fitted, IF I should need to pull this and source another (I've found a few for a good price as they're not 4wd Half-cuts so folks seem to shy away from them) It'll simply be a matter of getting the new engine here and plugging it in like a regular engine replacement, not a swap again.
Any-who, the big deal is that I got a pan, I'm about 99.99999999999999999% sure I'm gonna SAS it and now, we can REALLY get moving on this deal as we can officially re-furb the engine and button it up instead of twiddiling our thumbs wondering how we're gonna make an oil-pan and what we're looking at for fitment/clearance...
Chow for now... :sombrero:
Dave
P.S: Oh and once again I always see the coolest things when I'm at LCNW... This 55 is simply gorgeous and the owner has spared no expense in making it a VERY nice truck.
I can't wait to see him out on the road in it cause me, I feel better knowing that there are more LC's on the road, esp. old ones like these that you almost never see.
![](http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j309/4x4Rescue/080Oil-Pan-001_zps36dbe704.jpg)
Looking good... that's where I need the "dimple"
![](http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j309/4x4Rescue/080Oil-Pan-002_zps72b0a23a.jpg)
A sweeter sight I've not seen as of late...
![](http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j309/4x4Rescue/080Oil-Pan-004_zpsfbd46cd5.jpg)
Strainer going right where it's supposed to...
![](http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j309/4x4Rescue/080Oil-Pan-007_zps9248c00b.jpg)
I've also been a bit perplexed as to what age/vintage of 1KZ-TE I have and one thing that made me kinda curious is that MY oil-filler neck on the VC is on the left (looking at the front of the truck into the bay) side and has a pronounced, longer neck. Well I've found this is more common with the KZN185 era 1KZ-TE's so it's likely a newer engine then I had originally thought. now I'm having nightmares that it may be one of those dreaded "imobilizer" equipped (it's in the engine ECU and completely non-defeatable) 185 series Engines, BUT being that it definitely did NOT come out of a 4wd truck, I think I may be in the clear and not all "later" 1KZ-TE's had this issue but it's not unheard of. In reality, once the engines fitted, IF I should need to pull this and source another (I've found a few for a good price as they're not 4wd Half-cuts so folks seem to shy away from them) It'll simply be a matter of getting the new engine here and plugging it in like a regular engine replacement, not a swap again.
Any-who, the big deal is that I got a pan, I'm about 99.99999999999999999% sure I'm gonna SAS it and now, we can REALLY get moving on this deal as we can officially re-furb the engine and button it up instead of twiddiling our thumbs wondering how we're gonna make an oil-pan and what we're looking at for fitment/clearance...
Chow for now... :sombrero:
Dave
P.S: Oh and once again I always see the coolest things when I'm at LCNW... This 55 is simply gorgeous and the owner has spared no expense in making it a VERY nice truck.
![](http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j309/4x4Rescue/Beautiful55fromLCNW_zpsbdec6da2.jpg)
I can't wait to see him out on the road in it cause me, I feel better knowing that there are more LC's on the road, esp. old ones like these that you almost never see.