Builds Reviving "the wife's" 80 (1 Viewer)

[69LC]

Instead if posting this to weekend work I figure I'll track my progress not just on weekends, but also between them.

So I picked up the rebuilt 1fze short block last week and have been working to get it ready for the head and reinstalling into the truck. (95 Fzj).

While pulling the crank pully I broke a puller bolt. After work I removed it and blasted the caked junk off the pully for fresh paint.

(Mandatory disclaimer- I only tease my wife with the "the wife" thing because that's what she put into my new phone as her contact)

 

[69LC]

I was able to set the head in place and hand snugged the head bolts. I have an Aur Force weekend, so not much progress until I get back home Sunday.

 

[69LC]

Pardon the Midwest petina... Got home from drill and set back to work on the 80. Still don't have a torque wrench for bolting down the head, so I finished stripping the rusty dysfunctional e-brake hardware from the axle. I'll build a tcase disc at some point. I'm about to dig into the rear diff to hopefully fix the non functional locker actuator.

I figure it's a good time while the driveshafts are out.

 

[slow95z]

so that is what happens when you salt a road.

 

[69LC]

Yep

 

[69LC]

We will be installing a new water pump during this round of work. I can get them locally through NAPA and our local import parts place for ~$80 with lifetime warranties. Does price reflect quality? I've seen them online for around $40.

 

[69LC]

So... I just torqued down the head and was prepping to install the cams. I had small zip ties holding the chain up for the head install. The first one came out fine. The second fell down to the crank. Now I get to pull the pan back off and maybe the timing cover too.

Insert explicits here...

 

[69LC]

Found the F'ing zip tie...

 

[69LC]

Cleaning pans for new form a gasket.

 

[69LC]

So last night after getting the timing cover and oil pans back on I dug into the rear locker. It hasn't worked for the few years we've had the truck, and I imagine for a lot longer before. The actuator housing was so corroded it broke. Until I can afford a new one I made a block off plate out of stainless scrap at work.

I'm really bummed that we still won't have the rear locker. At least the front works!

 

[69LC]

Water pump installed, crank pulley waiting for torquing, oil cooler and engine mounts installed, verifying cam installation for timing and setting the caps.

 

[69LC]

Cams are in. I'll get a torque wrench from work tomorrow. I went to install the cam tensioner and can't figure out what I did with the nuts and haven't found any scrounge yet. Time to quit.

 

[69LC]

Ive been working dilligently on "the wifes" truck. Tonight she made me a sandwich!

(She doesn't fit the typical sandwich wife mold...old fashioned women's lib, LLPC counselor, "do your own laundry" kind of girl) The sandwich is special!

 

[69LC]

I've been getting real work done to earn my sandwich.

 

[69LC]

After work I threw the belhousing bolts in the parts washer, media blasted and painted the coolant tube from the top of the engine. It was getting rusty.

On to prepping the engine and tranny to go back together...

 

[69LC]

I'm missing one bolt... I hate ADHD!

 

[69LC]

Just got it all in place without pulling the tcase shifter.

I'll finish the partially built bumper after its driving. My daughter broke off the tacked on right wing three years ago just before she seized the engine. This is fixing all that BS.

 

[1973Guppie]

We will be installing a new water pump during this round of work. I can get them locally through NAPA and our local import parts place for ~$80 with lifetime warranties. Does price reflect quality? I've seen them online for around $40.

NO! go online and get yourself an Aisin pump! same brand / maker as toyota, exact same part, and is quality.

 

[69LC]

Thanks Noah. I checked this pump for wear and it seems good. If it goes I'll go for an Aisin. Now to bed...

 

[69LC]

Not too much going this week. I did manage to blast and repaint the water pump pulley today.