Bluechulappa's 89Turbo restoration
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Bluechulappa;1230171 said:
Lol wow, Lincoln... You should cut the tip of your old dip stick amd super glue it to the new one or just leave them the same... See now they are both the same length :icon_bigg But really on a serious note I dont think Toyota would make faulty dipsticks that would not allow you to read oil levels in case you are out of oil.... Perhaps the extra long tip was not needed...
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Damn Toyota! Heh well I'm going to pick up the heads in a few hours after school and lunch. Update later!
Sside;1230377 said:
Yea I gave bobby cash for the head. He said umm where is your head anyways. Then he whistled at the angry drunk russian looking guy, blind folded him, spun him around 3 times, drank a 5th of vodka and pointed at a 7mgte head. Bobby said and I quote, "You god damn drunk Russian POS, why do I even pay you! That's Patch's head but fuck it you can have it. It's Friday and I wanna get the hell out of this shit whole anyways. Oh and don't tell Patch about any of this."
So I just left with the heads they provided me with! :evil2:
Bluechulappa;1230546 said:
Wow, I went to Scroggins today to drop off my arp main studs but Tom was not there. Anyways when I was walking out Bobby ran towards me and tackled me to the floor while I was not looking and told me if I was gonna do the head inspection. I said maybe, but I want to take cams off and all that junk to save money.... Well when he went to get my head from the pile of 7mgte heads with a sign over them reading "7MGTE HEAD MOUNTAIN" I could alsmost asure there was a caged up drunk Russian guy... Anyways, when I got bk gome I decided I was too lazy to pull head apart myself soo I will take it bk monday to pay them to do it
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Head and a few other things got installed today! Broke a damn bolt on the oil pump strainer into the block when I was torquing it to toyota spec. Gotta figure out how I am going to extract it... So no oil pan yet... :3d_frown:
Eh I've done it before... Will manage. I can't easily take it to them as the block and head are now matted! I will be very careful with it and if it looks hopeless I will have someone do it or disassemble and take it to them to extract. Gonna get up early tomorrow so I can go get a small metal drill bit. Hopefully I can get this bugger out. Also I found another broken off bolt into the front timing cover. It wasn't done by me. Must have been previous owner or shop. Its a bolt that holds a small bracket for the power steering pipe that runs in front of the timing cover. It had been FIPG'd previously to hold it looks like. So yea. At another stand still right now. Also missing like two exhaust manifold studs... :3d_frown: Got a box of mismatched parts from scroggins from several different heads so thats why they are missing :nono:
Bluechulappa;1231362 said:
Hmm, interesting..... I have to take Scroggins a new timing Cover because one of the coolent pipes was "broken" but I kno I didnt break it.... Oh well I guess, maybe Butch had too much to drink before working on our engines or maybe the Russian guy did it....
Got a few good things done today. I was missing some exhaust manifold studs from this head so I extracted two exhaust studs from my spare head!
On a more serious note. I stressing out big time over this broken bolt in my oil pan.
On a more serious note. I stressing out big time over this broken bolt in my oil pan.
So the guy that was going to extract my broken oil strainer bracket bolt didn't show up tonight so I said FUCK IT. I got the drill out and with lot of coaxing and talking to the engine, drilling, patience, threatening the engine by telling it, it was going to the junk yard and more drilling and sweat and very un-comfortable positions.... I got it out. I am so thrilled!
Here's the lil bugger...
The hole... Threads are fine. I found a same size bolt and hand threaded it in and out several times with ease.
After that I kissed the engine and took pictures of her sexiness! Work starts back up tomorrow!
Today was a Good day!
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Here's the lil bugger...
The hole... Threads are fine. I found a same size bolt and hand threaded it in and out several times with ease.
After that I kissed the engine and took pictures of her sexiness! Work starts back up tomorrow!
Today was a Good day!
:icon_bigg
So I discovered today that one of the holes on my new head where an exhaust manifold stud goes is all stripped out inside. There are 4 or 4 threads at the very back of the hole which might not be in to good condition. Any ideas on a fix? My dad suggested JB weld but I was just reading on their website that it is not recommended using in for exhaust manifolds since the jb weld is only up to 500 degrees F. Any thoughts?
