Then the slider was installed, block taped off and wiped down and painted. Planning on doing another coat or two on the block later this evening so I’ll get a pic then.

 

Ok here’s a picture of the block after two more coats of paint.


Tentatively planning on a black block, natural aluminum head and polished aluminum or red valve cover.

 

Little more progress on the 22R today. After shooting a few coats of clear on the block I mounted the block to the engine stand, installed the upper main bearing shells, set the crank in and plastigauged each main journal. I torqued the main bearing caps down to 80 foot pounds, pulled the main bearing caps and inspected the plastigauge. All five sets of main bearings plastigauged at .018 to .020 clearance, which is within specs per the FSM. I then cleaned the plastigauge off the bearings and journals and re torqued the main caps to 80 pounds. Then while I watched Enzothehound chew up a bully stick I installed the rings on the pistons. That’s it for today everybody have a good weekend.


Using the ring expanding pliers to install the final ring.

Plastigauge lying on each journal ready to get smashed.

Main bearing caps all set in order with arrows pointing to the front of the engine.

Checking the plastigauge width to verify bearing clearances.

Oh and the freeze plugs are installed.

 

Good evening Yota Technicians,
Pistons were installed today and the zinc freeze plugs removed. The machinist included the bag of freeze plugs with his work but after installing them yesterday I decided to go with brass so they’re ordered up and should be here in a couple days. On to the pistons...


I found this diagram in the FSM on how the compression ring gaps and oil wiper ring gaps should be placed in relation to each other so that’s how I did it.

Then the cylinder walls received a good application of oil

Also verified per the FSM that the mark near the bottom of the connecting rod in this photo pointed to the front of the engine and coincided with the directional arrow on the top of the pistons. Everything checked out.



Then the piston rings received a generous amount of oil and everything was installed and torqued to 45 foot pounds

And then a little more oil was added to the top of the pistons.

 

Following a several week back order the front stabilizer bar arrived today. The wait caused no harm since the front axle isn’t installed 🙂

 

More goodies today. Hopefully I can find a little time to work on the truck this weekend.

Last part of the OME suspension kit to arrive. Ordered it around February 1st.

 

Found a little wrenching time today so the freeze plugs got a light coat of Permatex Form a Gasket #1 and got set. The brass plugs went in much nicer than the zinc plugs by the way. Then I cleaned up the dip stick tube, painted it and dabbed a little Form a Gasket near the end of the tube and pushed it into place. One last thing was installing the rear main gasket and crankshaft seal and bolting them in.



Not too good a view of the rear main. Didn’t think to get a pic until after the block was bolted back up to the engine stand.

 

Good evening ladies and gents. Not much work on the truck today. Cleaned and painted the dipstick and then began the process of cleaning and disassembling the timing cover, water pump and oil pump.

 

Little bit of work done today. The timing chain is assembled but the bad news is I can’t find my oil pump drive spline that sits on the crankshaft just in front of the crankshaft timing chain sprocket. I’m hoping it’s at the machine shop. Anyways here’s a couple pics before I got stalled.



Cleaned up ready to go back on.

 

 

Good evening fellow Toyota fans. First post in quite some time. Works been crazy. I had a few hours this afternoon so I installed the timing cover gasket and began looking for the timing cover bolts which turned into quite an ordeal. Finally found them in the bag labeled water cover bolts. Criminy 😳! Anyway got those cleaned up and installed snugly then installed the oil pump and torqued everything down to specs. 9 foot pounds on the 8mm bolts and 31 foot pounds on the 10mm bolts. At that point it was time to quit. I really wanted to get the water pump installed but on the flip side I’m enjoying this project and didn’t want to hurry through the water pump install since my wife was waiting for me to call it quits. Enough babbling here are a few pics.


Tucked away in this engine bag I found on Amazon.

Side view of the oil pump and timing cover

 

Good evening Yotatechers time for me to fess up to an error in my oil pump install. Long story short I managed to strip the threads on the top bolt. I wasn’t sure the day I did it but verified my screwup the next day. So anyway I pulled the timing cover and oil pump back off drilled out the stripped hole, tapped it and installed a helicoil insert. Here’s a pic of the finished product. The helicoil tang is still visible and I’ll break that off after the Red Threadlocker sets up. Here’s some pics.


Helicoil in.

Drill bit, tap, helicoils, and install tool kit.

 

Good evening YTers,

Reinstalled the timing cover and oil pump and great news...the helicoil held when the upper oil pump housing bolt was torqued to 216 inch pounds. So then I went ahead and installed the cam, rocker arms and head. Ran out of time to get the cam sprocket and timing chain bolted up since we’re doing a small barbecue tonight. Happy Fourth everybody!

 

Not much time for the 22R today since I spent the day working on getting a mini split A/C system in our daughters home. Anyways when I stopped yesterday the prospect of getting the upper timing chain gear on the cam had me stumped since I just couldn’t seem to pull it upwards anywhere nearly high enough to slide on the cam. Fortunately LCE has a video on how to accomplish that simple feat which I watched last night. Basically they just install the crank snout bolt in the crank and move it back and forth with a breaker bar which causes the chain tensioner to relax and allows the timing chain to be pulled upwards and easily walks it’s way onto the end of the cam. That’s all for now 🙂

 

Such a clean build. Always enjoy the updates. Thank you.

 

Thank you very much! Looking forward to watching yours go together once the machinist gets everything back to you.

 

At long last the cam gear and fuel pump concentric are on and torqued down, valves are adjusted, many bags of nuts and bolts cleaned and a couple more parts like the valve cover cleaned and painted. Here are some pics. Enjoy your weekends everybody!

 

Good afternoon,

Not much progress this week. In fact the only thing I did was pull the valve cover off and sand the paint and clearcoat off the raised areas. I used a small block of wood, started with 100 grit and finished with 400. Then I lightly sanded the entire valve cover and re sprayed everything with clear.

 

 

I’m digging that valve cover Ivans’s. Looks great!