The Machinist

Been some time since I posted anything. Just racking up miles. Got 2400 miles logged this week, Flagstaff, Heritage Museum, and stopped at Cruise Moab. still got another 1200 miles to go before getting home.

Picked up this baby. Meet Snowball a turbo diesel 6 speed VW. The plan was to teach my son how to drive in it and then eventually swap that engine into Sushi Roll. But I'm enjoying how it drives for now so I might leave it the way it is for...

Cheers

We had an excellent week on the project! More pics and…..videos coming! Cheers

Dropped the new engine in over the weekend, slowly picking away at reassembling it all now.

Been a few busy last weeks with getting my 84 pickup back on the road. Finished rebuilding my 22R and installed it. Thankfully I had a spare motor that needed rebuilding since the one I pulled out was in real poor shape after I overheated it on...

Shop air in the cylinder using a compression tester adapter to keep the valves from dropping. Extra rocker arm, pedestal and cut-down shaft. I cut the end of the rocker arm off and welded some 1” square tube to the end. 1.25” round would be...

I finally picked up my front driveshaft from D&D drivelines in the Belfair area. He did a really nice job. I would highly recommend him if you are in the area. He is a bit of a one man show, so he isn’t super fast, but it was worth the wait...

Mostly my 5-speed 530i I picked up back in October. Into the whole car for about $3k including wheels/tires, amp, Carplay head unit. Bought it with intention of boosted LS swap but will more likely end up doing that to a nicer example instead.

oil leak ended up being my shift tower which was loose from my previous repair failing, this time I time I welded the holes, used Time-serf’s and made paper gaskets. aaaand we noticed the input shaft on transmission was super loose. Of course...

Chris has pretty much finished our in house 1HDFTE engine swap harness. This plugs into the factory wiring harnesses. Various sensors. Relay for engine controls. Firewall pass through. Cheers

I emptied a can of PB blaster at the rocker assembly and attempted to loosen them with a dead blow, but it was fruitless. I removed the rocker assembly and had to PRESS it apart. Most of the rockers wouldn’t even budge. Once apart, I started...

*unmedicated ADD.

It goes and gets coffee like a pro. I’ll start doing some short backroads trips today and see how it does. I want to burn the 1/4 tank of old gas I mixed with NEG 87 yesterday.

Wouldn't cause any problems to remove it, although you may or may not like the way the truck handles. On my 60 I drove for years without the sway bar because the front springs were stiff enough that the body roll wasn't significant enough to need...

The new links are too short. Ideally the links would want to be long enough that the bar can be bolted on without much (if any) tension on the bushings while at ride height, that way they can flex both up and down without breaking as the...

cleaned it up and took it to calgary to get my 1hdt rebuilt. FINALLY!! i hope to have a leak feee motor for a little while!!

Back to Phoenix and still for sale. I lasted so long in Wisconsin the Arizona plates didn’t even expire. 😂

And strong finish for the week. Cheers

Headliner back in along with this, Sub, amp and back panel all done, added a piece of OEM trim only found in single cabs too. Cheers

Roof got a Second Skin sound deadening/ heat insulation pad installed today. Amp is wired, sub is wired, speaker wire ran to all four doors and more done as well. Such as Unichip mounted here, Cheers

Polished main cab. Jason TT

After inspecting everything, finding some chipping on the piston heads and worried about potential head warp (IT didn't thank god) I decided to go ahead and pull it to be rebuilt. Also, this was the first time I had pulled an engine out. So I...

The 61 is weeks if not days from being back on the road come visit soon before it breaks down again.

It's so appropriate today! Another Eclipse, another project!