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[seapotato]

That’s slightly easier on the wallet than my plan.

Maybe he'd give us a discount if we ordered 2...

 

[bcsteel]

I’ll ask…

 

[seapotato]

I feel like no thread is complete without some low quality bodywork.

Nothing but the finest rattle cans will be used.


The ol' tits down... See if I can't get another couple years out of the stripes.

I have two sets of spare doors, but they're such a seeyounexttuesday to change I'd just as soon cut and paste the ones attached.

 

[seapotato]

I sometimes wonder.

If I started the day with more ****s, would they last longer, or would I just spend them faster?

Cuz after 4 hours of bodywork, I'm fresh out.

Side 1 almost done with the patching. Just that door corner to warp now.

 

[bikersmurf]

I don’t envy you… I hate doing body work.

 

[seapotato]

I don’t envy you… I hate doing body work.

Yeah.

I actually quite enjoy hand forming the steel patches, that part is fun.

It's the painting and fairing I want nothing to do with.

Did too many boat hulls.


Used to have a neighbor in the marina who'd do the varnish on one side of his boat every year, and alternate.


Kinda liking that idea.

 

[bikersmurf]

I can get into forming & fabrication. I’m not fond of filler, sanding, and fancy paint work.

Although after working with fibreglass, carbon fibre, and laminations, it has got much easier.

 

[seapotato]

And that's enough of that bs.

Miles from perfect but for the few hours spent, good enough.

If it wasn't for the stripes I'd just hose the whole thing down with some tremclad or something.

It'll have to happen at some point, not today.

 

[slowandsteady BJ]

I have been absent for several pages ….. good work. I’m glad you saved the stripes. Your turbo should be just fine at 8 psi if you leave the stripes on.
Too many people overlook stripes when sizing turbos.

Also, blast some snot of some sort on the inside of those fender flare plug welds.

 

[seapotato]

I have been absent for several pages ….. good work. I’m glad you saved the stripes. Your turbo should be just fine at 8 psi if you leave the stripes on.
Too many people overlook stripes when sizing turbos.

Also, blast some snot of some sort on the inside of those fender flare plug welds.

Oh yes, snot blasting will happen. I tend to hose the thing down till it's an oily waxy mess inside every panel.

I agree, the stripes equal at least 5psi of boost on their own.

 

[seapotato]

Don't you love it when the thing you order a week+ later shows up first?

At least this gave me one thing to play with for a few minutes. Hoping the rest of the s*** turns up next week.

Anyways, I found this all interesting.

Especially after reading that 12ht thread that Nick linked, where the guy figured he'd bought the last set of oversized thrust washers on earth...

For starters, discovered this.

Measuring the crank float.

From this...

To this. Mungo no like.

In the .016-.017 range, max is more like .012

What I found interesting, was the thrust washers that were installed actually measured ok.

So to me, that means it's either always been like that, or it's the crank that wears and not the thrust washers, which seems wrong to me.

I'd have thought the replaceable washers would be a softer material. Or they just figured ****it, no one will ever take one of these apart.

Anyways, these are the new ones.

Down close to the minimum with them installed, but the new washers have a finish that isn't entirely smooth, so I could see that polishing off pretty quickly. Like the first couple times I sit at a traffic light with the clutch in.

Checked the above with the digital caliper and got .06mm which is definitely down at the tighter end of the spectrum, but above minimum (.04mm to .24mm) so I think I'm good.

Thinking about it, if that number above was TOO small, one could put the standard sized washer on one side, and oversized on the other. I don't see any reason why that'd matter.
Yeah, it'd be a fraction of a mm forward or aft, but with too much float it'll be doing that all the time anyways. Mines clearly been doing it for years.




I always have to recheck 30 times when using thousandths, trying to remember where the freaking decimal goes.

High school math was a loooong time ago

Neither of my measuring tools is exactly pro quality, but I seem to get fairly consistent numbers out of them at least.

And for future reference, this is them.

85 and newer, I don't think they're using that "greater than" symbol correctly, but I didn't want to get into that with the ebay seller

Shipping was 3 times what the part cost, but what can you do when you live in a shoe?

Now I go back to waiting, and hating bodywork.

 

[seapotato]

Still waiting and hating bodywork.

Did the other rear quarter. Kinda halfassed, think I'm going to do the quarter chop maybe next year. Found a version of it I like, I can fold up the tin on the brake to have it look decent. Putting the pic here so I can find it again.

My mother would say, " a blind man would be pleased to see it."

Spray bomb was a lot darker this side. Oh well. Probably gonna have to lose the decals next year.

Back to the engine...

I have a pretty big box of the wrong parts to ship back next week. After waiting a month, I received exactly the same bearings.

So that was pretty awesome.

Decided to bust out the bunghole scrubber.

Supposedly these are almost idiot proof, so I took that personal.

Spicing up the relationship...

Funny thing about all this honing bs is, the whole process took all of 5 minutes. Removing the skirt oilers took the longest.

In and out about 20 times, with just a little wd40 so it made practically no mess at all. Hard to see but the lines are pretty close to the same angle as the factory crosshatch.

Puddle on the floor...every time I rotate this bitch, a glug of oil comes out of somewhere.

I also threw in some new main bearings today. There's a lot of weirdness with 12ht's with variations in bearings. There's a number stamped in the block which supposedly tells you which of the "standard" bearings you need.
Most companies just seem to sell one standard size.

It's a fraction of a thousandth difference between 1 and 3, seemed to measure the same for me, but that's reaching the limit of the precision of what I have to measure with.

This seems like the more important number. Plasti gauge says the oil clearance is good, so I'll live with that.

Pretty much bang in the middle of the .032-.068mm range they want.

And lastly, I put the new rings into the pistons. Checking the gaps on all 18 was kinda tedious, but I knew if I skipped one it'd be the one that was too long.

They were all good tho. Minimum is .2mm which is the important number. Most were .3-.4mm.

And now, back to waiting to see if we're 3 for 3 on the wrong rod bearings.

To hedge my bets I ordered another set from australia. They appear to be chilling at the airport. So hopefully something will actually fit when it eventually gets here.

 

[GTSSportCoupe]

Nice work man! Sorry to hear of the frustrations with wrong parts. I went through some of that when I had my motor apart too. Mine had larger big end bearings than the pre 1990 2LT. Of course I ended up with the smaller ones instead of the right ones. Crank went to 8 bolt from 6 that year too. Nice to know Toyota is continually tweaking things at least.

 

[bladedog]

Still waiting and hating bodywork.

Did the other rear quarter. Kinda halfassed, think I'm going to do the quarter chop maybe next year. Found a version of it I like, I can fold up the tin on the brake to have it look decent. Putting the pic here so I can find it again.

My mother would say, " a blind man would be pleased to see it."

Spray bomb was a lot darker this side. Oh well. Probably gonna have to lose the decals next year.

Back to the engine...

I have a pretty big box of the wrong parts to ship back next week. After waiting a month, I received exactly the same bearings.

So that was pretty awesome.

Decided to bust out the bunghole scrubber.

Supposedly these are almost idiot proof, so I took that personal.

Spicing up the relationship...

Funny thing about all this honing bs is, the whole process took all of 5 minutes. Removing the skirt oilers took the longest.

In and out about 20 times, with just a little wd40 so it made practically no mess at all. Hard to see but the lines are pretty close to the same angle as the factory crosshatch.

Puddle on the floor...every time I rotate this bitch, a glug of oil comes out of somewhere.

I also threw in some new main bearings today. There's a lot of weirdness with 12ht's with variations in bearings. There's a number stamped in the block which supposedly tells you which of the "standard" bearings you need.
Most companies just seem to sell one standard size.

It's a fraction of a thousandth difference between 1 and 3, seemed to measure the same for me, but that's reaching the limit of the precision of what I have to measure with.

This seems like the more important number. Plasti gauge says the oil clearance is good, so I'll live with that.

Pretty much bang in the middle of the .032-.068mm range they want.

And lastly, I put the new rings into the pistons. Checking the gaps on all 18 was kinda tedious, but I knew if I skipped one it'd be the one that was too long.

They were all good tho. Minimum is .2mm which is the important number. Most were .3-.4mm.

And now, back to waiting to see if we're 3 for 3 on the wrong rod bearings.

To hedge my bets I ordered another set from australia. They appear to be chilling at the airport. So hopefully something will actually fit when it eventually gets here.

I believe that you hit the jackpot with the main bearing numbers; you can order PIZZA there too!!!

 

[seapotato]

Nice work man! Sorry to hear of the frustrations with wrong parts. I went through some of that when I had my motor apart too. Mine had larger big end bearings than the pre 1990 2LT. Of course I ended up with the smaller ones instead of the right ones. Crank went to 8 bolt from 6 that year too. Nice to know Toyota is continually tweaking things at least.

Yeah it's been a tad annoying, but is what it is.

Only real upside to how dry it's been, driving the 40 without the roof on for 2 months hasn't been a great hardship.


Now if only the guy selling turbos would answer his ****ing emails...

 

[seapotato]

Rumour has it, the bearings are headed my way finally.

I've pretty much decided to go with a wink turbo setup, he's been hard to get hold of but he was on vacation, so I guess he gets a little slack for that. He's back in the shop next week, so I'm hoping I can get one ordered and on it's way so I can install it while the engine is out.

Other options were Munro and Gturbo, but Munro's soonest delivery time was late November, which is kindof a drag, otherwise I'd have tried them.

Gturbo, the extra money is probably worth it if I was planning 25psi, but I'm not. (Famous last words...)

Then there's Kinugawa and Mamba, which are cheaper, but I don't know. Seem to be similar quality, and a few dodgy reviews on the internet.


Anyways, mean time...

Something that's been on my shelf for ten years or so.

This s*** must be the best, because look how it's stopped all those tacoma frames from rusting out...

I used the converter on the oil pan, but just engine paint to cover. I did give the frame a coat of the other s***, so I guess we'll see.

Pan has some old brazing repairs, and was painted with epoxy I think, so wire wheeling that s*** off seriously upped my beer consumption for the day.


lastly, the executive decision has been made. **** the wrist pin bushings. **** em man.

Apparently someone forgot to order them, which is an impressive feat considering all the s*** that's happened.

But, I figure mine have no real wear that I can detect, so it'll probably take a couple hundred K for them to be an issue and by that time, who knows what the world will look like.

Could all be bitches for Lord Humongous and none of this will matter.

 

[cruiserpilot]

Could all be bitches for Lord Humongous and none of this will matter.

Just what’s in that beer you’re drinking? That’s dark, man.

 

[seapotato]

Just what’s in that beer you’re drinking? That’s dark, man.

You're just worried you'd be his #2 bitch.

 

[cruiserpilot]

You're just worried you'd be his #2 bitch.

I’m not big, but I’m mean - He’d be MY bitch!

 

[seapotato]

I’m not big, but I’m mean - He’d be MY bitch!

My dad always said, it ain't how big it is, it's how mad it gets