Recent content by ttmon

Yikes! Looks melted. Was it pinging bad?

If you don't mind a drive there's a '94 with a pretty decent brown interior at a pick-a-part in Brandywine MD. I saw it a few weeks ago. Had cloth seats in darn good shape.

Well shoot. I know we've always had trouble getting consistent results with rivnuts so they're kinda a no-other-option type thing for us.

Looks like the hole for the rivnut was too big. It got set and pulled itself into the hole. If it was set properly there would be a gap the thickness of the frame material between the rivnut flange and your bracket and the rivnut flange would be mangled when it got ripped out.

I used this frame and glass to keep the rain out while I repaired my sunroof. It's locked in the shut position. Also have the sun shade in good condition. $200 for everything - just looking to get back what I paid the junkyard.

Great advise thanks.

Just a follow up. Finally pulled the motor and found two roasted rod bearings. Fortunately caught it in time and the crank just needed to be polished.

What I'm calling a dowel pin, for lack of better term, is a short rod threaded on one end. Maybe I should call it a stud. Exactly like what's in the hole to the right in the picture.

I would agree but it's about 3/8" inside the gear. If it sheared off I would expect it to be about flush with the outside of the gear. The face of it is also perfectly smooth and round. A dull shear would have deformed the bolt at least a little bit. I'm going to make a jig to lock the gear in...

Pulling the head today on a '94 1fzfe and went to put the service bolt in the exhaust cam gear. There is, what appears to be, a dowel pin in the hole (left hole in the picture). It's far enough in that it doesn't contact the outer half the cam gear. Nothing about it looks like a sheared off...

I was skeptical too but I used a pick and scraped a bunch of the antiseize off the plug threads and it stuck to the magnet

Used my my old crappy scope and a flashlight to peak in the cylinders and they looked like this. WTF where did these shavings come from! Looked at the plugs and the PO had slathered them in anti-seize. So when you use a ton of anti-seize on your plugs, this is what falls into the cylinders...

While waiting for the scope to be delivered did a compression test cause why not. All ~170 so hey at least that's good....

Hope you guys are right I guess. Pulled valve cover and top end is cleaner than expected. Ordered a better borescope to try and take a peek down the timing chain cover. From my googling anything behind the timing cover is a head off and preferably motor out situation?

94 FZJ80 265K. Had it about a month and slowly going through it. First 80 after a number of 100s. I know nothing about its history. Ran good except for a low idle (450ish) so I spent some time chasing vacuum leaks and what not. First start in the morning 9 out of 10 times would produce a...