hey wow it didn't get moved.

plans are for wednesday...and thurs and friday.... my 3 days off, and hopefully a little warmer.

umm yeah, you missed a little.

Kiyo....I'm gonna get it in place dry and see how much room i have to wiggle it around.....assuming not enough to reach all around the pan i will probably approach it from the block side and press the pan in place. unfortunately, i'm reading that i have about a 5 minute window with that stuff, so whatever i do, i better have my ducks in a row 1st.

 

Wow that could be a little odd good thing we all know it's your oil pan your talking about.

 

thanks for that.........hahahahaha

 

Buy your wife some flowers as a bribe for your safety.

Almost there man, if things go right you could be up and trying to sell your caddy by the end of the week!

 

I can't wait to do that.

her truck is gonna be at the garage for inspection on wednesday so hopefully I can get her to help me....no escape...hahahaha

 

Hey where did all the pics go at the beginning of this thread?! This is a greeeaaaattt resource for those of us just starting..However the pics appear to have been deleted from photobucket???? Can we get them back?

 

ahh yes, the pics. when i rearranged photobucket it killed all the links.

anything specific you want now or should i just post them all? i won't be around until tonight.

 

Yes, yes, yes, the ADD OCD got the best of 92 one day. "Hmmmm Maybe I'll cleanup my photobucket" "yes that will be nice".

 

Im betting you have this running by the weekend. It looks great and your attention to details it should run like a champ. One thing you will want to make sure is some the hoses will last forever, but when you started tugging and twisting to get them off, it will really weaken them. I had one to spring a leak, luckily I caught it in time. You might be surprised at how fast it will fire up when you do start. Might be a few smells, just oil and such burning off. While you have your radiator out I would recommend getting it flushed. You can see the finish line, Great job.

 

thanks Terry. thanks for the encouragement.

the radiator is essentially new...less than 1 year old...so i really have no worry about it. but before i put the expensive Toyota red stuff in the radiator i will run just plain water for a good flushing of it.

if all goes right today, which in my brain is not shaping up real well, i will play with trying to get the pan back on today and if not, then today and tomorrow. have to find the specs for putting the oil pickup tube back on , that will promise to be a big PITA to try to get everything right on the 1st try.

when i put my head back on, i have to say i impressed myself....because the overall size of the head, with the EGR installed and the tubes attached to the back of the head was quite wide, and heavy and awkward. because holding and estimated 40lb thing out at almost arm's length and getting it to match up 2 dowel pins on the 1st try was quite a fete...but it really happened that way....all that while trying to not knock the timing chain off.

i apologize again about the pics....i have 100's of pics....i will post them all back up when i write a concise "how to" thread for NEWBs like me, bu in the meantime if anyone needs any pics just say so.

 

come on get on with it!!!!

 

knock it off.....hahahahha

just got home from doing a lap of the world dropping off the wife's 4runner for inspection, dog to the groomers, eat something, go pick up both the dog and the 4runner at 1130 and THEN maybe...........

 

Wow what a morning...I don't like when I'm off and all I gots to do is run about. Feels like you didn't get anything done.

 

again, it's a coordinated effort...wife off today too...

 

So you have a helper today!!! Good for you, now you should really be cooking now!!!

 

i already explained to her what needs to be done with the floor jack..."yeah right so you can blame me when something breaks...."....grrrrr.

 

Well you better watch where she sticks that jack!


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i better post up some pics.

 

I really don't want to see pic's of that...

 

that's totally not what I meant....but that's hysterical that it posted like that......I meant of the current propping job i have going on there....under the truck.....with the diff.....