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I'm a big fan of this stuff only sealant I'll ever use.
Builds 1987 fj60 12h-t h55f conversion
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Front of the engine coming together. I powder coated all of the brackets. I also ordered an 80 amp internally regulated alternator so need to wait for it to arrive before I can put all the new belts on.
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Zinc plated the dipstick tube then sprayed it with silver engine enamel. Powder coated dip stick tube brackets and replaced the two front most exhaust studs that hold the tube bracket and turbo coolant and vacuum pipe.
Great work, this shows that simply buying a 12Ht (which are now nearly 30 years old) and dropping it into your vehicle just because its still running is just a matter of course.
They may run for 400,000km but at 30 years of age they do need an overhaul.
They may run for 400,000km but at 30 years of age they do need an overhaul.
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thanks! I always make it a practice to at least reseal an engine before it goes into another vehicle. it always much easier on a stand than doing it in the truck. 
Clean that crank pulley up!!
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yeah it looks rough I know but it has a rubber dampner in it so cant powder coat it. I could probably rattle can it but its not rusting away like some of the thinner metal pieces so im not too concerned about it.
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Coolant filter and dump pipe arrived from oz today unfortunately I only had an hour or so to work on it this evening. I'm surprised these coolant filters aren't sold state side I'm am very impressed with the quality. It's billet aluminum anodized black.
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Couple of more parts on. I powder coated the heat shield for the steering column while it was out and coated and trimmed the splash shield for the newly placed frame mount. Put the compressor on and turbo and belts, alternator belt is loose awaiting arrival of new alternator.
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Old and new dump pipe side by side. The new one uses a much more common flat 3 bolt flange. It has a provision for an egt probe. The probe bung is post turbo which isn't as accurate but I really didn't want to remove any heat shieds on the manifold and potentially weaken it by drilling a hole.
boozewz
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What engine mounts did you end up getting, and how easy were they to source?
Cheers
Cheers
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the block and rubber isolators came with the engine as well as the small steel wedge shaped pieces. The frame mounts I purchased from ebi in Vancouver they were sourced from a rusty hj60.
boozewz
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Ah gotcha. Thought you ordered them new from Toyota. The part numbers are available on toydiy, just wondering if they still sell them.
Keep up the good work. You're moving along super fast.
Keep up the good work. You're moving along super fast.
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The factory elbow off the turbo has a heat shield that attaches with two bolts. Since I powder coated all the heat shields I really wanted to use it so made this by welding a couple of nuts together. The elbow is made out of 409 stainless.
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Heat shields back on
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I work at a honda dealership so I get a ton off brand new hardware to use on my trucks but apparently 8×1.25 bolts with attached washer are hard to come by, at least identically matching ones. So I spent the morning at the local wrecker grabbing bolts off of late model toyotas. So all my exhaust shield bolts are practically new and all match as they should. I probably salvaged 15lbs of hardware this morning
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Thank you! I do enjoy working on these old trucks.
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Powder coated flywheel plate going on. Then resurfaced flwheel. I put blue loctite on the flywheel bolts. The clutch kit was purchased for a 2f fj60 I had been told they were the same but wasn't sure about the pilot bearing, throw out bearing etc. The 2f bearing fit the 12ht crank like a glove! Blue loctite for the pressure plate bolts.
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I've always used exedy clutches on all of my vehicles the quality is superb and the parts have the same logos as all of the dealer supplied clutches I've ever installed at honda.
