Tito's - Another 1st Gen 4Runner build

Been an eventful week so far, Baby Logan made her way into the world on Saturday night. We got discharged from the hospital Monday afternoon. Momma and baby are healthy and perfect which has been a big relief. Not only that but had some boxes show up at my door on Tuesday. Finally got everything put to put the 4Runner back together. All I gotta say is the turbo looks damn good on there
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Got the new camshafts installed and valves shimmed within spec. Threw the valve cover and turbo on for the last time (hopefully). Next is to drop the pan and weld the bung in for the oil return line for the turbo, feed line, piping, exhaust, and figure out a ground issue I’m having with the harness/haltech, ECU is not grounding for some reason so I’ll have to chase the wire with a multimeter but thankfully it’s getting 12vdc+. Hopefully find some time between the baby and chores to get it started this weekend
 
Shreddinlettuce said:
aftermarket ecus typically want dedicated 12v and ground to the battery, might be worth outs own 10 gage or larger ground wire
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That’s what I was thinking, I get like 2-3v from it when I do the positive and ground off of the harness plug, I’m going to end up doing a dedicated ground and positive off of my switch pro
 
you might even get feedback from the switch pro. I would go all the way to the ecu. I got 8 gage dedicated with big ring terminals and it connects directly to to the battery posts. That’s what the Holley install video says to do, and they make sure you repeat that about 5 times in the video
 
What's that saying, it comes in 3's? Little back track update, figured out the ECU issue not getting power once i finally got some sleep as my lack of sleep had me looking at the pinout backwards, When i finally figured out i was looking at it backwards i saw i was on the wrong pin and went to go check for 12V on the ecu side to find that there wasn't a pin where there was supposed to be. Looked on the backside to find this on the PNP adapter from SNP after i gave the wire a little tug.


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the 12v DC pin was not seated all the way into the connector that plugs into the haltech, once i pushed it in i actually got the ecu to turn on
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Spent the next 3 hours tuning it and pissing off my neighborhood, this sucker rips, until it didn't, discovered two issues, one i have severe death wobble, i replaced all the heim joints as they were shot but from pushing my axle forward and my alignment is off so i need to get it on a rack. Now for the 3rd issue. I'm about 99% this brand new Garrett turbo has a bad oil seal. During acceleration and decel at higher RPMS its pushing oil out the exhaust to the point its dripping out the flex joint on the down pipe. This motor is super healthy, good compression, never smoked before the turbo, and ran like a sewing machine. I'm thinking once its pushing high oil pressure its pushing out the turbo into the exhaust side and down the downpipe. I don't have high crank case pressure, i re-routed the PCV out of the intake and into a breather and plugged in the intake just incase. Soon ill pull the spark plugs and down pipe to see if its engine side or turbo side. Hopefully get that knocked out tomorrow and shoot myself in the foot before i call LCE to know 100% its not something engine related. At least it looks good being on all 4 tires again

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Turbo is pushing oil out the backside near the exhaust housing, and rings are shot. My wallet didn't hurt anyways. I knew i should of did an LS...
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