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Im thinking about buying this motor and its rebuilt...i have a few questions about it. First off, does it use all the same distributer, intake, exhaust, tranny, etc etc??? Second of all, it has been rebuilt and i dont know how engines are broken in or if the guy broke it in or whatever and i dont know how long its been sitting after the rebuild. Does it matter?

I have a motor in my '80 4X4 out of a '84 Isuzu Pick-up, it's got G200 stamped on the front of the head and at the bottom of the block on the driver's side by the oil pan. The stock motor for my truck is a G180F. If your engine is a G200 it should bolt up to the stock everything. They even take the same head gasket. I think the G200 is supposed to have electric ignition, but mine's set up with points. About the rebuild stuff, I have no idea, sorry.

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Richard Barnes Salt Lake, Utah
1980 Luv Mikado 4X4
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the G180 G190 and G200 are basicly the same motor, everything should be the same. As far as the rebuilt but sitting, if its been dry it will be good. I would pull the pan off and the vavle cover off and make shure everything clean and good looking. Also whith the pan and valve cover off turn it over slowly so you can see the cylinder walls. I have head that motors should be broke in before sitting, but i think this only aplys to if they have been run but not enough to get broken in it will mess them up.

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1980 LUV 4x4, going under re-construction...

ya just checked and the engine im lookin at was rebuilt in '96...and its been sittin under a cover in a shop on a stand ever since apparently.

there shouldn't be a problem, i'd pull the spark plugs out and put a couple of squirts of oil into the cylinders before cranked the motor over. i would also fill the oil pan with oil and turn the motor over by hand to prime the oil pump and get some oil to the bearings so you don't start it dry. if it was rebuilt you shouldn't need to pull the pan or the valve cover. if you have any doubt and you want to do it then it would be easy to do since the motor is out. everything on the g200 and the g180 will swap over so you shouldn't have any problems. i'm currently swapping one in my luv, but got side tracked helping my friend put a new motor in his diesel.

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1980 chevy luv 4x4 1.8 liter
1979 luv long bed parts truck
1984 2wd isuzu pup parts truck

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