Completed some of the last things on my need-to-do list, unfortunately with some of the issues probably wiped out the budget for the wants/dreams list. Car runs pretty good but the timing job date was a mystery, called the dealerships where it was serviced and could find record with the last 160K miles. I've been hearing some bearings in pulleys on cold starts, turned out to be tensioner bearing and fan bracket. Radiator has been leaking for seventh month from a pin hole in the top left and then the fan was spraying it all over the engine bay made a huge mess. Fan shroud only had the top half and was held on by zip ties. Before:
Ended up replacing cam seals, crank seals, water pump, timing belt, timing tensioners and pulleys, putting in the missing dust cover, new thermostat water inlet (because I broke the old one), thermostat, thermostat outlet, fan bracket, tensioner, idler pulley, radiator, hoses, fan shroud, and radiator cap. Reconditioning all the cover and hardware too.
used my CNC table as a staging area for parts, and the wife was out of town so cleaned all the parts on the kitchen counters:
Started Saturday and greatly underestimated how long it would take. I would doing a lot of cleaning of the plastic and the nuts/bolts but there also several very stuck pieces. Including this:
and it left a little piece in there, in was cemented in there pretty good with some of that seal packing gasket. This obliterated all hope of finishing on time since nobody had the part and it wouldn't come in till Wednesday. Ending up having to borrow someones car for Sunday and Monday and then renting a car Tuesday through Thursday. So between renting a car, buy a new inlet/housing, then ended up getting these tools for $80 on amazon (only one that shipped next day), did take away from some of the thriftyness of this job:
I wish Autozone or somebody would have a good tool like this to rent but alas. Didnt have anything to make a good homemade one but these made it so easy to get exact torque specs and get the timing right. The new thermostathousing/Water inlet has a new design actually, kinda nicer to work with. @2001LC sent me some of that expensive Toyota coolant gasket seal which was nice. Tons left if anyone wants it.
Ended up replacing cam seals, crank seals, water pump, timing belt, timing tensioners and pulleys, putting in the missing dust cover, new thermostat water inlet (because I broke the old one), thermostat, thermostat outlet, fan bracket, tensioner, idler pulley, radiator, hoses, fan shroud, and radiator cap. Reconditioning all the cover and hardware too.
used my CNC table as a staging area for parts, and the wife was out of town so cleaned all the parts on the kitchen counters:
Started Saturday and greatly underestimated how long it would take. I would doing a lot of cleaning of the plastic and the nuts/bolts but there also several very stuck pieces. Including this:
and it left a little piece in there, in was cemented in there pretty good with some of that seal packing gasket. This obliterated all hope of finishing on time since nobody had the part and it wouldn't come in till Wednesday. Ending up having to borrow someones car for Sunday and Monday and then renting a car Tuesday through Thursday. So between renting a car, buy a new inlet/housing, then ended up getting these tools for $80 on amazon (only one that shipped next day), did take away from some of the thriftyness of this job: