Recent content by deadhead7

I have located and purchased an engine, so marking this thread as "sold."

@1BDA5560 I’m quite flexible on timing and happy to wait if you have a quality engine that will come available. Just sent you a PM.

I am looking for a healthy 1PZ engine. Preferably with verifiable compression numbers or proactively removed for an engine swap.

PM sent

If only I could go back in time and forsee all the complications that have come with this 1PZ rebuild… I would have gone the 1HZ route for sure… Unfortunately at this point I’m too deep in it to turn back until I’ve exhausted all my options.

The head for my 1PZ is cracked so I'm in search of a take off head from another engine. I know this is not something many people would have lying around and the 1PZ is rare, so I'd be willing to buy the full engine if necessary for the right price. Anybody have a head or a parts 1PZ that could...

@mocha0923 sent you a PM

Updated the original post with items that have sold.

It's been a slow process with the machine shop but they finally finished it up and I went over to take a look and drop off all the parts to my mechanic who will be reassembling it. Certainly looks nice... very clean work. Finally in the home stretch... just needing to get the long block...

Bump - see update in the original post!

Is someone able to confirm where the marks are on the bearing cap that indicate the main journal bore diameters, as shown in the image below from the service manual? I could not find them on the bearing cap but now that I've studied the diagram more I'm thinking that's because I was looking at...

I believe you're talking about 09275-54011 "Plunger Stroke Measuring Tool" correct?

Picked up my rebuilt injectors on Friday.

No it wasn’t. It’s the type of thing that I probably didn’t need but was cheap so I err’ed on the side of replacing. Probably went overboard with a few things in that respect but figure while it’s apart, might as well refresh things.

Received my big box of parts from Japan today... Everything I ordered was accounted for and packed very well - kudos to Dave Stedman. Had to lay out everything I've received so far to take inventory against my parts list. I now have all the parts for the rebuild other than the items that depend...