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I was able to get the engine all put back together and start the break-in process. I have about 20 miles since the rebuild. I did put a new turbo on; once you have a "turbo'ed" 3b there is no going back. I measured the blow by at idle and it is 1.5CFM. Varying the rpms I can get 2.0 CFM...

I got two different rebuild kits in this week one of the kits was from the same company as last time and the second was from a different company. It was interesting that the one of the kits had finished linear, that were right at Toyota factor bore ID of 4.0158 and the other was unfinished with...

I took the engine in to the machine shop and they confirmed that everywhere the rings came in contact with the cylinder was worn out of spec and the very bottom was within spec. Similar number as listed above. When they inspected the pistons it turns out the ring were in the wrong position...

I measured the cylinder linear using a micrometer and a telescoping gauge. The linear at the bottom is pretty much in spec. The bottom measurements seems to be bellow any wear from the rings. The top being a but over spec. The middle is bad with number 1 and 2 being really bad. Number one...

It makes me more worried if there is a potential that the previous machine shop has damaged the block. Is this likely I looked through my 3B manual an could find any specifications about the engine block and OD of the linear. Is there a min wall for the linear? Can you correct a bad engine...

I was able to pull the pistons and found the number one piston had half its skit broken off. Any ideas on what may have happened to cause this catastrophic of damage? The other pistons didn't have the same damage, but were also very loose in the cylinder. I took a picture of the piston up...

Since I am in the USA and the rebuild was done about 4 year ago, I worked with a Canadian parts shop in BC. I believe they sourced the rebuild kit out of Austria. The shipment was direct from Austria. I was just the middle man between the machine shop and the parts and didn't pay that much...

I provided the rebuild kit and it came with sleeves and pistons. I would assume they were the correct size. With the gap being worse at the bottom of the stroke it seems like the cylinder was cut at a taper. Is it standard to cut the sleeves to size once they are pressed into the block? I...

Hello, I had my 3B enigne rebuilt at a machine shop. They disasembled the block and reassembled it with new sleeves and pistions. I put the rest of the engine back together. After puting on some miles it was noticable that there was a lot of blow by. Without much expereince and reading some...