Hi, New here, have wanted to put the om617 into a small 4x4 for a while now and finally got my chance. I have an 85 FJ60 Landcruiser and I have gotten the adapter kit from Luke at 4x4 Labs (nice kit).

I have the kit on, new clutch assembly, bell housing on and the motor hanging in the engine compartment.

Had some initial issues getting the bell housing to go back on the transmission, but eventually got all 4 bolts to thread and seat.

MY ISSUE IS: if we tighten down all the bolts between the transmission (Stock FJ60 4 speed manual) and the bell housing (Standard) We cannot turn the engine. Back the bolts off 1/4" and we can turn the engine over. What is missing?

Other issues at this point appear to be that I will need to modify my oil pan to clear the Differential, and my oil filter is hitting the firewall (3 lb sludge on the firewall should fix).

I think I even got all the electrical out of the donor car. may have more questions in a bit.

Hi,

Trying this and another post, need an answer.

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OM617 (82) into 85FJ60 - mounting issues
Hi, New here, have wanted to put the om617 into a small 4x4 for a while now and finally got my chance. I have an 85 FJ60 Landcruiser and I have gotten the adapter kit from Luke at 4x4 Labs (nice kit).

I have the kit on, new clutch assembly, bell housing on and the motor hanging in the engine compartment.

Had some initial issues getting the bell housing to go back on the transmission, but eventually got all 4 bolts to thread and seat.

MY ISSUE IS: if we tighten down all the bolts between the transmission (Stock FJ60 4 speed manual) and the bell housing (Standard) We cannot turn the engine. Back the bolts off 1/4" and we can turn the engine over. What is missing?

Other issues at this point appear to be that I will need to modify my oil pan to clear the Differential, and my oil filter is hitting the firewall (3 lb sludge on the firewall should fix).

I think I even got all the electrical out of the donor car. may have more questions in a bit.

Is there any way you can tell if the fasteners are bottoming out on something, keeping it from turning?

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In the adapter kit it states to reuse a metal washer on the flywheel that is about 1/16th thick (yes its Mercedes so it is actually some thousandths?) My plan is to use pieces of the metal from the other side and space between the bell housing and the transmission. If it works I am going to take it all apart and remove the metal washer. This should give me Just a bit of space, but the consensus (3-4 people so far) is that I am bottoming out the spline.

I do have a micrometer, but seems like a pain to pull it all apart if we can check to see if removing the washer on the fly wheel will help us.

Anyone feel free to weigh in on other thought too. How to get my new oil sump to clear my differential would be nice. I may need to fab a replacement, and I may just modify the pan, but then I need to drop the frame stops....

Wow this is interesting to learn, I really have never worked on my car before... and now all this.

I assume the transmission is in neutral. If so, how would bottoming out the spline make a difference? Aren't the crank and input shaft turning as one unit? Does the input shaft on the transmission turn easily without the engine attached? Are you sure the transmission is not in gear?

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Not in gear. everyone asks - "You can double check if you like" Reasonable question though. If the shaft bottoms out it would probably create a friction lock. the 1/16th additional room may make all the difference.

I will probably start posting pictures if we get this resolved and keep moving.

Has to be either a bolt going in against something or the spacing wrong jamming the shafts against one another such that it creates side ways friction in either or both the motor and transmission. This assumes your adaptors do line everything up of course.

Take the front oil pan off and you will see the oil pump on the front of the OM617. The stock motor in your FJ probably has the oil pump on the rear of the motor. The front sump is usually in conflict with the differential on a front solid axle 4wd when repowering with an OM617. You can cut and weld on the front metal oil pan to gain a few inches of clearance especially if your differential is off set of center enough. I have seen where someone cut the intake off of the oil pump that faces forward and welded it back on to the pump facing backward. Google it as there are lots of builds out there using an OM617 repower.

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Well, obviously we hope for the easy way. This is not going to be the case. Luke got back in touch with me and said that on one of his early GMC projects he had this happen. Probably is contacting the pilot bearing and I will need to take it all out and look at it. So --- time to disassemble and check where it is butting together.

His response has been great. Offered to modify the aluminum adapter so the pilot bearing sat deeper. I would definitely recommend 4×4 Labs for any om617 to Toyota or gmc product. If I like this one though, the next one looks like a Jeep 6 speed manual transmission.

Ok- Will have more in a few days, perhaps a pic.

I think the same thing happened to me when I swapped a automatic for a manual transmission in my 240D. Even though I knew better, somehow I put the clutch disc in backwards. I was lucky I didn't damage anything. If you have to take out the transmission anyway, you should check to see that you didn't make the same mistake I made. Good Luck

One of our Member posted the below pic.

However, I think that with out some sort of check Valve or Valves if the Vehicle sits a long time the Oil is going to drain out of the Hoses and the Filter Housing leaving a lot of space that has to be filled up to before Oil Pressure reaches the Bearings when starting the Engine.

If Check Valves are installed when the Oil is changed dirty Oil is going to be trapped in the Hoses and Filters.

I do not know what sized Fittings were used but the ID of the fittings needs to be at least the same size and better a little larger than the Holes in the Block.

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