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No? Just me. Coolio.

So it's quite odd and pretty unfortunate because I have had this thing for a while now, and it doesn't even fit. I bought this a while ago, a reman off of ebay. I'm almost done building my motor again, and after bolting this up I noticed the pulley on the compressor is about a half inch too...

The head is bolted and torqued. Hell the timing belt and everything are ready to go. I figured I could just pop this off and replace it. I was wrong. I ended up cleaning as much as I could and tightened back down. There's not much corrosion or anything. I just hope it seals like it was. But she...

Sigh...I'm gonna slowly work it. If not I may just retighten it and see if I can pressure test it and make sure it's sealed.

Ugh this sucks. Where did you buy this tap? I have a feeling I'm gonna need it. It's the only thing holding me back.

Anybody???

Are any of you familiar with removing this? I bought replacements from Driftmotion. But upon cracking the pipe lose I'm noticing that it is super stiff, like nerve-racking, I'm taking the threads with it, stiff and I'm a little worried. I'm soaking it with PB Blaster and I'm tempted to put an...

Nice build so far man. You're a little ahead of me on putting the longblock together. I went with the Fel-Pro Permatorque head gasket for mine, but haven't installed it. I remember having to remove a rivet on my HKS metal head gasket that was on it before. Did you remove anything from the...

Yea I hear ya. I'm now in the slow process of selling my old, new MHG so I can put it towards the reinforced composite gasket and the ARP sleeves. This is definitely challenging my patience but I know I am doing the right thing and doing it right.

That's a nice test on the gasket. How much power do you think you're pushing? Did you put ARP hardware in there?

Thanks a lot for posting that up. I did a lot of reading and whatnot. Since my head is off and the block is out, I'm gonna be a little more patient and snag these sleeves, get my head checked out and install these, and then snag the Fel-Pro Pertatorque gasket. I will feel SOOO much better...

That link is quite interesting. I can totally seeing this make sense. I'm gonna have to look at the one I'm about to put on. It's complete but not installed so that might help a little the examining it. I'm really curious as to how many people actually have done/did this. I mean, if you...

So with a little digging, I found AutoPartsWarehouse.com has them, but in a kit form. I already have a gasket kit, but it looks like I might have to get another one. BUT then I just googled the part # and found a few options! I think that's the best route to go! Thanks, Nick.

Oh man. I appreciate you bringing this up. I'm gonna look into that. I promise you, I went through sooo many posts trying to find what's gonna work the best for my situation. No one has mentioned this one yet, but I knew there had to be a middle ground between the two. I would trust Fel-Pro...

I have a couple questions. First, with the minor pitting in the block, it seems to be that a composite gasket is the way to go, preferably a Toyota gasket. I’m OK with this if I have to. I will be using ARP head studs to go with it, so I’m covered there. The issue I am having is my power...

Yea my head has a lot of irreparable scoring on the head and cam surfaces. I'm leaning towards the $700 rebuilt longblock, because I'm not in a major hurry to work on it because school doesn't allow me to. The deal is almost too hard to pass up. And it looks well taken care of. I'll just...

The machine shop build pretty much gives a bolt-on ready head prepped for a metal head gasket. All new seals and guides, along with valve seating. This is the route I'm leaning towards, but the older rebuilt longblock looks to be in such good shape, it's hard to pass up. I would love to be...

I'm currently in the market for a cylinder for my mildly built 7MGTE shortblock. I have a few different routes I can go, so I wanted to know what you guys thought. The first option is I can have a local head shop rebuild me one for about $700 out the door. I can snag one off ebay for about...

I sent them an email regarding my concerns, and I was pretty thorough as to what I wanted addressed. I even sent them the pictures to refresh their memories, and they said with discussion with the shop manager, that they're sure that for my goals and application it will hold up. These guys...

Thanks for the reply. I've been running around all day. So, looking at our past emails, he mentioned that the block has been decked already and can't be decked again. Now that I'm thinking about it, I wanna say that they machined it to the point where the timing cover was even. Maybe they...