Time is indeed money. The difference is, at your payscale buying is probably nothing and fixing just isn't worth it. At mine, it's exactly the opposite.
Since so many of you seem to think it's dumb to try to fix a leaking oil pan and post about it when it's so easy to simply throw money at it...
To answer your questions:
1) I did 'buy the part' used from a fellow cruiserhead last year and had it ready for when I'd have tp do the job (last week). I did check that the part was identical to the toyodiy.com's schematic.
2) Our Canadian Lira is worth about half your US Dollar, even less...
OK.... Took a few days to get back to it but here goes.
After looking closely at the pan it turns out it's made of two discrete layers of metal. The trouble with that design is, if water and salt gets between the two, you're basically done for. That's exactly what happened to my oil pan...
My wife's asleep and the old oil pan is in the oven drying its oil off, I'll post pictures after I take it out to compare oil pans, I'd like to avoid a fiasco like the one I got into not asking for pictures. 70sguy (Sheldon?), could you PM me?
Yeah, I took the surface rust out using citric acid, I swear by it, works wonders and is non toxic. I avoid Vinegar like the plague because it keeps attacking metal afterwards. As soon as I get the time hopefully later today I'll take some pictures and post them. Haven't been able to contact...
Thanks, man! As soon as I finish my job today I'll get on with it and post pictures. I'm sure you'll understand the emergency when you see the disaster. I must be living in the saltiest part of Quebec ;-)
Thanks, Old Man! I was fortunate enough to have a friend of mine drive me to the job site and do my work instead of losing to another one, when I finish my report I'll post a couple of pictures for you guys to understand how bad it is and how desperate I am to find a replacement!... Basically...
So I called upon my friends for some advice and after hearing mostly unhelpful answers as far as emergency is concerned (make yourself one!) I attempted a bronze repair and lo and behold, it seems to have worked and to hold water. Do you guys think if it holds water, will it hold oil? What...
OK so call me a procrastinator but the last year has been busy, way too busy and I'm now paying the price. So I just started to get a leak from the oil pan, made it home and prepared to replace it with my spare and lo and behold, the spare, which came from a 1HZ is different and not deep enough...
I just did a job where the client was driving a completely electric car - 15kwh/100km or at our going electric rate of $0.10 per Kwh, CAD1.50/100km. I use 10l per 100km at the best of times (CAD10.30 at the going fuel prices), and we pay CAD0.10 at the most per kwh. In other words, it's 6...
Wow! 10 times as fast as on regular steel... So I gather machining is a real challenge... But what about cutting, drop forging and welding, which is pretty much all what is required for making wheels?
Very interesting- But a factor of 10 in labour/ transformation costs? That seems unreasonable - I understand Stainless Steel is hard, but that bad? Does it break the tools or is it just simply unworkable? What part of the process is especially hard or difficult?
Thank you for reviving this moribund thread. Every time I check online about "Stainless Steel Wheels" and eliminate these outrageously useless and ridiculous rotating hubcaps, I invariably fall on this thread.
As for myself, I've resigned myself to cleaning and painting my wheels every year...
I'd say about 10 cents more... Don't really check.
I pretty much stopped looking because at less than $1.20 per litre I can actually afford it because I ALWAYS 'combine shipping' in other words I never simply cruise around or simply go for a drive, always plan itineraries to minimize...
Still $1.14/l here north of Montreal, whereas gasoline is at $0.91... GRRRR
Let's see... CAD 1.14 per litre is about USD 0.90 and a US gallon is 3.78l, so that makes US$3.40 per US gallon... 33% more expensive than in Idaho, I gather, while at the same time our money is worth 27% less than the...