Flank
American by Birth, Texan by the grace of God.
So, I've been absentee from club events for, well... Ever... due to running our company and working too many hours. Still have my 95 80 series and about 6 months ago had a pretty decent head gasket failure. Long story short, my 17 year old daughter totaled my work truck and my cruiser became my trailer puller for about a month until I found a 5.7L sequoia 4wd that I adore. About week after getting my sequoia the cruiser started rough, but drove fine. Then my wife said it stalled on her. I started it and massive white smoke out the pooper. So it's parked.
I have two 1FZ engines: the one in it with about 200K miles and a top end rebuild by Robby in it's past, and my original that has 192K on it when I retired it with a #6 misfile that I suspected was a beginning of a head gasket.
Probably going to pull it from the truck (gulp -big one for me) but have never gone past an EGR system rebuild involving removing the intake manifolds before.
I am confident tearing the engines down, sourcing parts, cleaning, etc, but lack the confidence to put them together and test tolerances of pistons, rings, honing the cylinders, etc... Wondering if any cruiser friendlies in the area that could help with re-assembly? Selling the cruiser is not an option, I'll probably be buried in it. The fact that my wife agrees its not an option is a huge cultural victory in the Marten family.
I have two 1FZ engines: the one in it with about 200K miles and a top end rebuild by Robby in it's past, and my original that has 192K on it when I retired it with a #6 misfile that I suspected was a beginning of a head gasket.
Probably going to pull it from the truck (gulp -big one for me) but have never gone past an EGR system rebuild involving removing the intake manifolds before.
I am confident tearing the engines down, sourcing parts, cleaning, etc, but lack the confidence to put them together and test tolerances of pistons, rings, honing the cylinders, etc... Wondering if any cruiser friendlies in the area that could help with re-assembly? Selling the cruiser is not an option, I'll probably be buried in it. The fact that my wife agrees its not an option is a huge cultural victory in the Marten family.
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