K Sparky
Well-known member
Help Toyota People! I have a quick question for any of you with experience with cracked blocks that have been welded for repair. My brother has a 4 runner with the interesting 22RET. This was an all original 80s turbo 4 banger with an automatic. He swapped in a five speed and put in an upgraded turbo but was still not very satisfied with the performance so he decided to pull the engine and rebuild it. However just when the machine shop was about to bore it they found a crack that had been welded and refused to do the machine work. He expected the crack to be in a cylinder wall or at a bearing interface but instead it was on the outside as shown. Is this really an unusable block?