Pics of the 2jz's cam baffles, for the curious.
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Interesting. I'd assume 7Ms are very similar..
Did you drill out the rivets holding them on to get them out?
Sam
Did you drill out the rivets holding them on to get them out?
Sam
Reminds me, I need to find a spare set of these to refinish so I don't have to take my car off the road to make mine look pretty...
Dave, I'm sure Gord would be happy to sell you a pair for cheap since he has a couple spare blown 2J's.
Gord, get a little bored?
Gord, get a little bored?
Actually the baffles are held into place but impacting posts that are part of the cam cover itself. The impact spreads the post out and prevents the baffle from moving.
I chose to take a dremel and very carefully grind the outside edge of the impacted post off so that they would fit back through the baffle hole and then that way I could reinstall the baffle the exact same way once cleaned out. Then it's a easy matter of placing the baffle in taking a blunt instument such as a socket extension and placing it on the post. One solid wack with a deadblow hammer and the post mushrooms out like it was originally again holding the baffle into the cam cover.
After checking under a few of these baffles I am glad I cleaned them out due to the amount of previously deposited oil sludge and gunk plugging them. Even if you do now run clean oil in your motor and have cleaned out the block and head etc when checking out a JDM sourced motor this gunk in the cam covers still presents extra crap in your oil filter for it to deal with as your new oil cleans things out. The gunk under one of these covers was so bad it could potentially have cause the PCV system to function far from optimally or even barely at all.
Just food for thought.
Mike, PM me about the covers.
I chose to take a dremel and very carefully grind the outside edge of the impacted post off so that they would fit back through the baffle hole and then that way I could reinstall the baffle the exact same way once cleaned out. Then it's a easy matter of placing the baffle in taking a blunt instument such as a socket extension and placing it on the post. One solid wack with a deadblow hammer and the post mushrooms out like it was originally again holding the baffle into the cam cover.
After checking under a few of these baffles I am glad I cleaned them out due to the amount of previously deposited oil sludge and gunk plugging them. Even if you do now run clean oil in your motor and have cleaned out the block and head etc when checking out a JDM sourced motor this gunk in the cam covers still presents extra crap in your oil filter for it to deal with as your new oil cleans things out. The gunk under one of these covers was so bad it could potentially have cause the PCV system to function far from optimally or even barely at all.
Just food for thought.
Mike, PM me about the covers.
Most Japanese engines I've played with use a spiral rivet, can't say I've ever seen one held in with bolts.
Hmmm maybe it is just 1j's then cause when I took mine a apart to powdercoat mine was just some allen heads and RTV.
Guessing that's not stock and someone has tapped the holes, I'd be using some Red Loctite on those if it were mine.
5mm Spirals from memory so would tap perfectly to m6x1, as I said never seen bolt in baffles but there's always a first time (still lean towards someone has tapped them after cleaning)
100% sure Allen heads aren't "stock" though.
100% sure Allen heads aren't "stock" though.
IJ.;1613210 said:
Agreed. Not on my 1JZ or any of my 7Ms.
So, is there a way to remove the spiral rivets you're talking about Ian?
Might as well clean em up..
Sam
Allen head bolts, as IJ stated, are never stock, someone has been in your baffles, oh, sounds so naughty!
LOL.
LOL.