Gotta love shiny new parts!!!

 

Caution most here are easily distracted by shiny motor parts

 

You're gonna love that head and cam. OEM gasket right? Factory reground rockers only...no ebay rockers...no ebay cams.

You doing header while you are at it? Would really wake her up.

 

Shiny parts are the best!

Toyota headgasket, yes. Although the Rockauto one I put on my '94 has been fine since I did it. Still plan on oem though for sure. I got some nice junkyard rockers too as replacements. They may be used but they're fine. I would have reused mine if two of the rockers hadn't been scored up anyway.

Header will be a little later. I want to see how she runs first then swap that out. It needs an exhaust system anyway so it won't be long until I'm back in there tearing parts out.

 

Take some 600 and score those rocker pads a little. Just to knock the "glaze" of them. Emery cloth would be ok too. Didnt read back to check....261 or 268 cam? Shiny engnbldr heads pics....we need more. You are obligated to post big giant pics of shiny stainless valves.

 

268 cam. Gotta get more pics after I get some more parts cleaned up... I have lots to do and no time to do it! I still have plenty of spares to throw up on ebay too...

Which reminds me I'm looking for some new heater lines if anyone has extras, mine are pretty rust and I don't want to pay top dollar for the stainless replacements

 

Man law. Directory Toyota. Subsection. Toyota parts.

Reads as follows. Though shall offer up thine goods to yotatecher's before thou shalt selleth them on thine ebay.

Its the law. sorry.

 

Wow. It's been COLD. Needless to say I have been a pansy when it comes to wrenching in the cold... in my defense it's been dark every day when I get home and my weekends are busy. Also since this is an extra truck I'm in no hurry and I would rather enjoy this build then stress about it.

Anyway today was warm and sunny. All I had to deal with was my backyard turning to a mudpit so I decided to accomplish something.

Pulled the front crossmember, dropped the diff and replaced my oil pan gasket.



It was all a headache as usual but I'm glad I did it. The remnants of an old blown set of timing chain guides were still in the pan from who knows how long ago. Who knows, maybe some of the plastic did its usual deal of clogging the oil pickup at some point and that's why the old top end got oil starved. At any rate it's all good now, I have a new gasket on there and things are getting considerably cleaner as I go along.

I'll also throw out a plug for this stuff:



I saw it mentioned on a recent episode of Roadkill and thought I'd give it a shot. Seems to do the trick, I went for the heavy duty stuff and it removed a lot of baked on grease and dirt. A lot of my suspension and frame parts should be ready for some paint before too long thanks to this