thank ya buddy, I'll try that tomorrow

 

Lookin pretty good, 'Bleeder! You weren't lying when you said you'd be takin lots of pics.....lol......

 

You've gotta be spending more time uploading pics on photobucket than actually working. lol

 

Man that was one worn-out engine. Post pics of the finished machining as soon as you get back from the shop!

 

lmoa, nah, I resize them before I upload them, and my upload speed is pretty decent, so 70+ pictures really doesn't take too much time to upload


oh you bet, and pics of every step along to way to the finished machine

 

Awesome man!! Great pics!!! Good thing to take off the bellhousing braces, i forgot about those and the machine shop took them off to paint. I totally forgot about them untill I was bolting up the motor to the tranny and was wondering what the heck I was missing!!! lol!!!

 

Thanks for all the pics by the way. I'm going to need this thread when I get back on this project. You are taking all the pics I was planning on taking, but I was to lazy to wash my hands so I could touch my camera. lol

 

That "fake" screw was a real screw used to hold a number tag onto the block master used to make the casting mold. It simply left its impression there and was later filled with iron when the block was cast. I have a turbo compressor housing with the shape of a flathead screw cast into it and I have seen other engine blocks and cylinder heads with the same type of thing.

 

haha the engines were taking apart at school have them to, so il ask my teacher tomorrow for ya bud

btw, it looks freakin great!
keep on truckin man

 

x4178 what everyone else said, I find this thread sorta entertaining in a weird way..

You shoulda dino'd that thing before and after just to see how much HP that old ass thing was puttin out..
probably 80 at best

But seriously, Lookin good buddy !!

 

you accidentally put a zero behind that 8, so i fixed it for ya...

 

lmao, I thought the same thing

"80? there's now way it would make that much"

lol

I would say, just before teaing into it in it's final week, by seat of the pants measurement, probably 40-50... serisously... that bad...




well nothing getting done today. I'll probably wait till the weekend, get the trans out and clean it and replace the input seal, and both output seals. then start cleaning up some of the parts to get prepped for paint, and might dig into prepping the engine bay for paint. I take the block to the machine shop on Monday, and it's going to cost me $160 to get it decked and bored and then after I get the specs and measurements I can order my kit from LCE once that arrives, I can go ahead and order my new head from engnbldr with oversized valves (thank you 874runnersr5 for that reccomendation much better than the one I had picked out)


I can't wait... the real fun is soon to begin

 

shouldnt you take the pistons and block to the shop together.I think thats best.

 

I've been watching this thread and trying not to comment but HOLY CRAP HOW IN THE HELL WAS THAT RIG STILL RUNNING???? Jesus if a Jeep motor got half that bad it would detonate and kill every yuppie in a quarter mile radius!!!!!


I'd forgotten how mugh of a pain in the rear a rebuild can be. I did a 6.9Ford years ago that took almost a week and it SUCKED!









So, how's the progress so far?

 

I'm replacing the pistons

good thinking though

I'm putting in LCE's street series

lmao, yeah I was surpsied to see the condition the chambers were considering the fact that it WAS still running but hey, that's a Toyota for ya

This one's going to take a little while, but I got nothing but time (all couple hours a day, and the weekends), a steady income right now (knock on wood ), and a spare truck to drive during the process

Progress is as you see it in the last pics, lol. I tucked everything to the side of the garage last night after those pictures, and it'll stay there untill Saturday (probably wont touch it tomorrow after work either; today I just didn't feel like messing with it, and tomorrow I might go out somewhere... I need to get out... it's been a while )

 

Bleeder I couldn't sleep with that motor in the garage at night. You need to get your ass up out of bed at about 1 in the morning and go to work slacker!!!! Your truck is sitting in the driveway DEAD and you think you can sleep while she sits there and wishes she was running??????




Get your ass to work!!!!!!

 

lmao

I get into that kinda rush, and I KNOW I'll forget something or not do something right

patients...

 

I still want the thread pitch and size of that drain plug..

oh and how deep it is...

I am hoping I can use a fan switch from a Honda, on the Yota for my taurus fan

Pretty please...

 

oh THAT'S the one you were talking about, ok

I'll see if I can find out fer ya

lol, when I removed it, there was all kinda crap built up behind it from where the previous owner added some stop-leak becuase of the leaking radiator that stuff really builds up in spots... like at openings in the block where water-flow is stopped at the head gasket...

 

I found the same junk in the head of a 22re I took off...

Whats the word on getting those bolts out?