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      VAcruiser reacted to alia176's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Haha Haha.
      DOOOOOD 😲
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      Unfortunately, mine runs great. My issue is mother nature.
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      Yeah, my current hoist and stand will surely need an upgrade as they're definitely not made for the weight of the 1KZ.
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      VAcruiser reacted to Azca's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      If you pull the engine, do not cheap out on an engine hoist or engine stand. You will regret it if you do! I went the HF route for my hoist, went through two of them before finalizing my rebuild. Dumb. :bang:
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      Yeah, I'm thinking so too. Either this or my rusty W115....but one or the other will be whole again after the chill wears off next year.
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      VAcruiser reacted to alia176's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      oh hell yeah, pull the whole engine with the ECU harness pulled through the firewall after disconnecting it from the ECU. I'd move the a/c compressor and lay it on the pass fender well. If you can pull the engine/tranny/tcase combo as one...
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      VAcruiser reacted to manofthewoods's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      My 2 pennies... There's a few different ways to get a stone cold reliable engine. The 7 main bearings are SO over engineered that if they are in spec, then they are plenty strong. I replaced mine mostly because they aren’t expensive, so no biggie.
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      Finally replaced all 4 of mine today. Tried the brass gears a couple weeks ago but they were way too tight. Ended up using the Gamiviti’s I had in the motor pots and replacing the entire assembly’s on the other side with OEM units. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
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      I rebuilt my driver's seat back in January with new Gamiviti gears and was pretty happy. I have used these gears on every cruiser I have owned with no complaints.. then my daughter decided she wanted to use my cruiser for a week when I was out of...
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      Ok, a little update on this.... Couple weeks ago the wife tried moving her seat and it just quit. It was already on its second Gamiviti gear, so I figured I'd try out one of the brass. Sold as a pair on Amazon, they arrived next day. Pulled...
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      I’m following your logic here mostly, but if you’re thought is that it’s not that much more work to replace XY&Z while you have AB&C off, good or not…why would you reinstall bearings with 205k on them?
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      VAcruiser reacted to truthdetector's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      IMO, if you're already going to have the engine on a stand with the head, oil pans, and front cover off to make sure you address all current and near-future leaks, it's not *that* much more work to take apart the bottom end so you can clean up...
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      That's great to know. I'll have to look that up. I'd love to rebuild one. I'm a while you're in there type of person so I'm already going to blow the budget out of the water. Besides my lack of experience rebuilding, I don't want to add the...
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      VAcruiser reacted to manofthewoods's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      #2 first. Toyota makes a "overhaul" gasket kit. Definitely the way to go. As to #1... Most would say no. But, it depends on your intended use case, your wallet, and, your tolerance for putting your vehicle out of service, etc. Also, rebuilding a...
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      So, I read your write up and I appreciate it. I've never rebuilt an engine. I've pulled heads, etc, but never full blown rebuilt one. While I completely understand your mindset, I have 2 questions for the quorum.... 1) If a compression check...
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      Well, yes and no. Toyota conservative engineering, high quality and I'm 99% sure that the previous owner stayed on top of maintenance (oil changes, etc.) Current selling LC's (aka, 250s) can't claim that the engine is a conservative design - for...
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      "my" engine machinist did a standard hone of all cylinders. Nothing else needed. So, in theory I've got another ~350k miles before the next look at the cylinders, assuming I live that long, or our lawmakers haven't outlawed ICE engines:flush:
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      That’s honestly pretty incredible for an almost 400k mi engine.
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      My LX450 Rebuild, The good, the bad and the ugly. This is my Pay it forward to MUD. Since those who want to do this type of work have (or should have) a FSM and access to various excellent videos (such as Otramm) I won’t duplicate those steps...
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      Huge thanks.
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      VAcruiser reacted to manofthewoods's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Love Love.
      Your wish is... My command! Paying it forward, My LX450 "reset/complete rebuild" notes & lessons learned - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/paying-it-forward-my-lx450-reset-complete-rebuild-notes-lessons-learned.1305084/ :wrench: :banana::santa:
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      VAcruiser replied to the thread Pull the engine, or no...?.
      If you don’t mind posting the link here, it may help others….again. 😊
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      VAcruiser reacted to manofthewoods's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      As mentioned above (and by me on other threads), pulling the engine, transmission and TC all at once per the FSM is not that difficult. On a stand, everything is super easy to work on, and do "right." I wrote a pay it forward thread about when I...
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      VAcruiser reacted to Darkstar909's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      If you're going to end up doing a HG you might as well pull the engine/trans and reseal everything. At first I started my HG job with the engine in the vehicle. Such a pain and I got through a lot of the work when I decided to just pull it out...
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      VAcruiser reacted to Malleus's post in the thread Pull the engine, or no...? with Like Like.
      I've always been told that anytime a sealed, pressurized system is opened to air, it absorbs water. Since water is compressible, its presence degrades the ability of a pressurized system's operation. That's the school solution anyway. It...
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