TobyCat's winter buildup

[TobyCat]

Well, the car's been down for about a month now due to ::bhg::

I finally got around to taking the head off of the car a few nights ago, and was a little worried about scoring on the cam journals, and pitting on the block. It looks like whoever did the last HG job when it blew (Toyota:icon_evil ) over torqued it, and #1 and #6 rings on the gasket were out of round. Well, there was my exhaust->coolant leak!

So this is how it sits now, waiting for the machine shop. The other thread http://www.supramania.com/forums/showthread.php?t=49518 with my silly questions

 

[NashMan]

quick qestion did you put any thing in you coolent jakest and oil jackets when you were scraping

i have all wasy used greas and used q tip after wors to gett all the shit out of my block

plus makes scarping the block very easy and faster ????
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[TobyCat]

Nope, didn't put anything in the water jackets as I scraped everything wet with lube. Scrape scrape + wipe. Repeat 1000x.

Got the head back from the machine shop and everything looks really good. The head surface is crazy smooth! I polished up the cams with some scotch brite, and it turned out well. Got all that scoring out. I assembled everything but didn't do the final torque down ... didn't have any RTV for the #1 cam caps.

I measured the head height and it came out to *just* below 116mm (4.553")which is the factory thickness. So, that means that when the old guy I bought this supra from got his headgasket done in 1998, Toyota didn't even bother to get it machined. :icon_evil

Final pics is how I tucked the ol' supra away for the night

 

[NashMan]

umm idea do an oil chnage aftwords or at lest swap filter out

oil jakets are the most importian

 

[TobyCat]

Yup, that's the plan. Going to start it up with fresh water/oil and let it run for a bit. Drop the water/oil and refill the coolant and oil with good stuff.

 

[NashMan]

should have greased it any way

 

[TobyCat]

2am home time, and almost done. Dang, took a bit longer than expected to get all that random crap back on. Should fire up tomorrow!

 

[canadianbacon]

Ahhh Dang!:icon_razz

 

[NashMan]

should ???? geeez some confadencas you got there

 

[TobyCat]

She's ALIVE! except I've got leaks of all sorts

First fire up, was OK then noticed I was absolutely pissing fuel somewhere. That was easy to find, I didn't tighten the damn fuel dampener enough.

Next, fired it up and everything was OK...until it started to warm up slightly then coolant everywhere. I mean, WOW. After poking around, and filling up some coolant again I heard dripping. The coolant hose that goes underneath the throttle body popped off. Apparently I need to put a clamp on those Wow, that's tight access in there without taking the upper intake off.

Ok, fire it up again...and I watch the blanket that was over my fender flap a bit in the wind. I think to myself "I should move that" and right then it gets stuck into my fricken fan. OMFG. Good thing I turned it off in time. What an idiot move on my part

So some time later after taking off the belts and jazz (that blanket worked itself nicely in the alt belt) I got the blanket out and noticed that during all this the damn overflow hose/nipple broke. ARGH. So, I gotta tap that with some sort of brass fitting, or at the very worst buy NashMan's old rad. PLeH, more money.

Then, after I quadruple check everything, fired it up again. It runs really good, but I'm still smelling a faint fuel leak. Poke around, and the dampener is still leaking. It leaks out the top and what not, so I gotta buy a new one of those. Add on top of that, lots of the old hose clamps are weak from 20 years of sitting there, and hoses getting old, I've got a lot of twiddly stuff to do tomorrow.

But, I should have my car back soon!

 

[Mrbaboon]

Newb.

That was totally a 4 hour job.


Did you do your valve seals, you cold-start-oil-blasting-newb?

ahah.

At least you aren't rocking the tercy anymore.

 

[NashMan]

She's ALIVE! except I've got leaks of all sorts

First fire up, was OK then noticed I was absolutely pissing fuel somewhere. That was easy to find, I didn't tighten the damn fuel dampener enough.

Next, fired it up and everything was OK...until it started to warm up slightly then coolant everywhere. I mean, WOW. After poking around, and filling up some coolant again I heard dripping. The coolant hose that goes underneath the throttle body popped off. Apparently I need to put a clamp on those Wow, that's tight access in there without taking the upper intake off.

Ok, fire it up again...and I watch the blanket that was over my fender flap a bit in the wind. I think to myself "I should move that" and right then it gets stuck into my fricken fan. OMFG. Good thing I turned it off in time. What an idiot move on my part

So some time later after taking off the belts and jazz (that blanket worked itself nicely in the alt belt) I got the blanket out and noticed that during all this the damn overflow hose/nipple broke. ARGH. So, I gotta tap that with some sort of brass fitting, or at the very worst buy NashMan's old rad. PLeH, more money.

Then, after I quadruple check everything, fired it up again. It runs really good, but I'm still smelling a faint fuel leak. Poke around, and the dampener is still leaking. It leaks out the top and what not, so I gotta buy a new one of those. Add on top of that, lots of the old hose clamps are weak from 20 years of sitting there, and hoses getting old, I've got a lot of twiddly stuff to do tomorrow.

But, I should have my car back soon!

you did put 2 crush washer on the damper right one on top one below the caseing broek i have spare

 

[Mrbaboon]

you did put 2 crush washer on the damper right one on top one below the caseing broek i have spare

Lol only 2?

more like 18. And 3 sets of valve seals. wtf.

 

[NashMan]

i likw to be perpared can never trust these thigns

 

[TobyCat]

Found all my coolant leaks, my friend came by with a coolant system pressure tester - awesome tool! Pump it up to 0.9 bar (13psi) and go around the whole system listening for air or looking for drips. Of course, the heater core<->block hose was leaking WAY down there...argh should have checked the hoses when the head was off

Tomorrow = new fuel pulsation damper (thanks Nashman!) and it's back on the road.

 

[TobyCat]

Fuel pulsation damper installed, and no fuel leaks. I let the car idle up to operating temperature and looked for coolant/fuel leaks ... nothing! The only thing left to do now is time the car and drive it home.

 

[NashMan]

is it drity hore enigne bay

 

[Intothenight19]

Cars looking fresh man, btw Nash's 92 is incredible.. You both have two beautiful MKIII's on your hands..

 

[TobyCat]

My engine bay is always clean

Thanks Intothenight

And yummmm, this just came in.

 

[NashMan]

why does it have a dent in it ???? did you drop it or the bone head befrpo you got it