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Originally Posted by E150GT
one of my customers has a toyota 4 runner with over 500k on it. Thats interesting to me as I seem to see a few of those for sale a lot with bad engines. Guess it goes to show if you take care of it they will last.
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That must be the only Toyota 6VZE engine that has never experienced a head gasket failure.
I can't imagine what Toyota's engineers must have been thinking when they designed that 6VZE engine...the head gasket failure always occurs in the same place and you can look at it and tell that there is more span between two of the head bolts in that location. They specify retorquing the bolts after 10-20k miles as well but that entails pulling the cams out to access some of the bolts.
Toyota 6VZE = FAIL!