Well ladies and gents, it has begun!

Phase 1 - Disassymbely / cleaning

Day 1 - Basic parts removal and some cleaning

Began by draining the coolant, but haven't drained the oil as of yet. Got the battery, radiator and hoses, fan shroud, air box and intake, coolant and washer fluid tanks, AC compressor, ignitor and coil, distibutor with wires, and all three belts removed, as well as cleaning A LOT of mess out of the engine bay, cause let's face it, it's so much better to work on a semi-clean motor




just before pulling into the neighborhood, on it's last mile of the motor




many of you may know just how dirty my engine bay was, but just in case you don't, you can get a good idea of what I'm dealing with from these pre-taredown pics















































Well, after a good soaking with some Formula 88 degreaser, and hitting it with a water hose, with our wanderful water pressure here, she actually came pretty clean with no scrubbing!

























Holy crap, you can actually make out the PS pump and Alt now! lmao. Before it was all just one big dark and dirty mass







Couple of shots I took for myself, just to help with belt routing

















And for the PS hose routing, as I'll probably be removing the hoses, because I may be replacing my leaking gearbox while the engine's out of the way





More documentation pics, keeping track of my main wires and grounds








But after the 5 hours of work today, here's what I ended up with; pretty good amount of work if I say so myself













and a garage corner stuffed with parts I need some sort of table, lol





and supplies that are just waiting, like mt new engine stand, assymbely lube, engine paint (primer, black for the block, and red for the valve cover and intake manifold), silver header paint, red scuff-pad for the engine bay and some black undercoating to paint the ENTIRE engine bay with, as well as some other odds and ends that I needed







And tomorrow, on day 2, I will push on!

I should be ready to pull the engine out on Tuesday. I plan on removing everything while the motor's still bolted in; the only thing I'm going to lift out is the block and head.

 

better look better than mine when you're done-


else abe and I are gonna send scuba over there with a toothbrush and swampthing with some pipe.

 

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i would of waited til it hit 300,000 exactly, so it's like starting out with 0. are you gonna punch it over any or is it just a stock rebuild? what are you gonna drive until you finnish it?

good luck and keep t he pics coming

EDIT: for above post, you forgot the "TEST YOUR MIGHT" part

 

Lookin good far man!! You haven't taken the hood off yet?! Slacker...





J/K!!!

 

you know who made the song for mortal kombat?

 

Nice man!!
looking forward to seeing the progress!
Git r done

 

I still lol at this vid
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You werent joking about lots of pics, were you.
subscribed !!!

 

The answer is The Immortals.

 

abe's gonna sick his Nitzer Ebb on you!

 

lol, I don't think it would have made it another 4k it was strugling...

I'll have to wait and see once I get the head off and look at the cyl walls, as it is burning some oil, but as far as I know, it could just be valve seals. But if the walls are pretty gouged up, then it's definately going to have to be bored out a little to get a good surface. BUT, even if they just need a re-hone, I'll probably have it punched out a little

I've got a truck from my father that he has as a spare, a 96 GMC Sonoma; it's a POS looking truck, but him and I built the motor in it, just the 2.2l in it, and it SCREAMS it's kinda fun to drive, and gets probably double the MPG as this Toy, lmao


You know I thought about that, but I'm probably not going to worry about it, unless it really gets in the way when it comes time to pull the motor. We'll see, if I have to, it'll come off later, but right now I'd rather keep it on to keep things covered up (and so my driveway doesn't look TOO red-neck, with a 4X4 missing body panels and all parked there, with no motor in it, lol)


dude, I can't believe I just sat and watched that whole thing maybe it was the 80's booty

that guy's a pimp!


haha, oh yeah man, bleeder-dude aint play'n

 

its a metaphor for toyota versus the rest of the world.

 

do we look that funny when we wheel or something?

 

[quote=iamsuperbleeder;51131978]but right now I'd rather keep it on to keep things covered up (and so my driveway doesn't look TOO red-neck, with a 4X4 missing body panels and all parked there, with no motor in it, lol)LMAO. That's awsome!!!. If it has the engine in without the hood, with different coloured body panels, would that be too much? Pics are looking good. Keep em coming.

 

you could always just sit the hood on when you were done working. you weren't joking when you said tons of pics, i will be following this thread. subscribed.

 

lol! Yeah, I forgot it's in the driveway!


I took the hood of first thing, of course I was using a come-a-long off a rafter in my garage to get the dang thing out!!

 

Subcribed.

I'm going to have to do this in about a year or so for my lotus engine. Thinking about throwing some low compression pistons in there for later.

 

sick pics super, cant wait to see what happens next

best of luck buddy

 

if i were you, while ur doin the rebuild and got stuff off, why don't ya replace the water pump and belts and hoses. Think about all the easy stuff too, so you don't have to go diggin back into your engine a couple thou down the road to do something that would be so simple later on.

And while your at it, time yourself and make a vid of changin the belts, so that you have the fastest time on record of changin your belts. I regret not taking a vid of my time... 2 minutes and 15 seconds xD