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The problem is that the thrust bearing at number 5 the bearing was not at the right tolerances so as it would thrust back and forth it wore down the step up to where it is actually cut into counter weight to the depth of the step up. I will find out soon if the original crank is serviceable and...

Not sure if this is the same problem or not but one of the thrust surfaces has a sizeable grove cut into it from where the bearings rubber. So pig that you can see it and definitely feel it. Should I take it to a different machine shop or can I get wider bearings to compensate for the "short...

Surprisingly enough he feels like he can work with the old original crank.

So the "new" crank thrust bearing pressure journal had a HUGE groove cut into the back end

On the docuseries Spy Opps on Netflix on the episode plot to kill the pope shows the video the video of the pope in a 40 series right before the assassination attempt

I used them to magna flux my head and surface my fly wheel on my F motor and they were good but it was about a $600 bill

That is definitely an option

The beginning of the rapid fire. On this episode Bernhard Koepp joins me to talk about his Fj40 hard top and Fj43 soft top that he had restored and imported from Columbia.

On a more positive not I was able to NOS standard rings from PartSouq that should be here in the beginning of May. The pistons should be good. I am going to be taking my 2F crank the original into the machine shop tomorrow.

Yes and he might be able to source an other crank from the pile of parts from the guy that he bought his land cruiser from and he said that there was a couple of motors that he could source a crank from. I just hope that I could get a refund on my purchase.

Not the news that I was wanting today, the machine shop called and said that he had some bad news for me. I was thinking that it was the cam timing gear wasn't usable... not it was the crank that i had just bought from eBay the thrust journal is no bueno. Hopefully I can get a refund from eBay...

The block has been honed, and the cam bearings are installed I was able to find a new cam from the jungle company. The crank is getting polished. I ordered the new rings today from PartSouq and should be here in a couple weeks. The cylinders were pretty clean so that is why it was just honed...

Shortly afterwards I saw this right hand drive diesel Hilux Surf, (third gen 4Runner)

Saw this 70 series troopy a bit out of it's element at the Park Place Mall in Tucson