I drove up to Prescott and helped
@86R100RS get the engine compartment baselined over the last couple of days. He and his wife are great folks who kept my belly full of good food and incredibly delicious beer
Issues that we found and fixed:
- Starter was failing (reman of unknown age, but was a Toyota branded reman)
- driver side intake manifold gasket had a small leak
- both valve cover gaskets had been puking oil onto the exhaust manifolds for years
- two of the water bypass pipe gaskets were leaking (one on each the front and rear bypass pipes)
- water pump had been leaking long enough for some crusties to develop
- front crankshaft seal had been leaking for a loooong time
- passenger side camshaft seal had a small leak
- 6 spark plug tube seals were hard as rocks and allowing oil into the tubes
- 7 ignition coil shafts were cracked and/or the boots were brittle
- 4 spark plugs were overtorqued and required soaking in PB Blaster for 1.5 days and very careful incremental loosening and re-tightening to get them out without stripping threads or breaking a plug. All 8 plugs had some ash and were old (but at least were the correct Denso units)
- all 8 fuel injector vibration insulators and grommets were either hard as a rock or cracked
- PCV valve had never been changed and hose had been chewed by pack rats
- two oil cooler hoses were leaking
- multiple evap/air hoses were cracked
- water inlet housing did not have an o-ring and instead the groove was filled with permatex/FIPG
- an incorrect thermostat gasket was used (too large), so permatex/FIPG had been used to seal the water inlet to the water inlet housing
- all 4 radiator hose clamps were worm-drive clamps that had been over tightened and cut into the hoses
- heater Ts and hoses had been replaced within the last 5 years, but one clamp was a worm-drive clamp. Found the correct constant tension clamp under the intake manifold laying next to the starter
- timing belt idler pulley bearing was bad
- thermostat, radiator, radiator cap, fan clutch, fan bracket, timing belt, timing belt idler pulleys, timing belt tensioner, and a couple of ignition coils were no-name-brand Chinesium aftermarket parts
AND PACKRATS HAD TAKEN OVER!!!
Filled 1.5 grocery bags with the leaves, twigs, sticks, rocks, etc that the wood rats had piled into the valley under the intake manifold.
Anyways, we cleaned everything up and fixed all of the aforementioned issues with brand new Toyota/Aisin/Denso parts from Partsouq, RockAuto, local stealership, etc. It’s about 98% buttoned up, but there were a few parts that we didn’t have and had to order, so waiting for those to come in and the engine baselining will be complete.
