Louis,
Please post a pic of what the hub looks like from a few angles. I'll check my pile.
Please post a pic of what the hub looks like from a few angles. I'll check my pile.
Lou's [it only needs a clutch] 1976 FJ40
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The hub is meant to be re-used. It's been a while, but I don't remember it being super hard to put the new bearing on. I'm pretty sure it is a slip fit, not pressed (though it will probably take heat/force/lube to get the old one off).
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from Jim:
Ok, here's the deal: The Downey 4 speed bellhousing uses a stock 4 speed throw out bearing , shift fork, and the stock shift fork pivot ball. The flywheel will be for an 11" pressure plate, will have 168 teeth, and center hole will be 2 1/2" diameter if your engine is 1985-older, or 2 1/8" diameter if your engine is 1986-newer, and I'm assuming you do not have the newer LS-1 engine. The clutch choice is the issue. A stock Chevy clutch takes more travel to disengage than your Toyota hydraulics produces. For that reason Downey produced a Chevota clutch that is machined to require less travel to disengage. My Chevota pressure plate and disc cost $252.00 plus postage. The guys who try to run a stock Chevy clutch must adjust the throw out bearing so that it is always riding on the pressure plate fingers in order to get full disengagement, but then this is what burns out the bearings (i.e. yours). These then are the same guys who tell you a stock Chevy clutch works.
Ok, here's the deal: The Downey 4 speed bellhousing uses a stock 4 speed throw out bearing , shift fork, and the stock shift fork pivot ball. The flywheel will be for an 11" pressure plate, will have 168 teeth, and center hole will be 2 1/2" diameter if your engine is 1985-older, or 2 1/8" diameter if your engine is 1986-newer, and I'm assuming you do not have the newer LS-1 engine. The clutch choice is the issue. A stock Chevy clutch takes more travel to disengage than your Toyota hydraulics produces. For that reason Downey produced a Chevota clutch that is machined to require less travel to disengage. My Chevota pressure plate and disc cost $252.00 plus postage. The guys who try to run a stock Chevy clutch must adjust the throw out bearing so that it is always riding on the pressure plate fingers in order to get full disengagement, but then this is what burns out the bearings (i.e. yours). These then are the same guys who tell you a stock Chevy clutch works.
TWSS comment in 5, 4, 3...
Pay the man.....
Depending on which side of the engine the dipstick is on, that'll tell you whether it's the older or newer SBC configuration. Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've fooled with small blocks, I can't remember now which is which.
Yeah I had one of those before. It's just a collar for the throw out bearing right?
A vice, bfh, and appropriate socket will separate those. Maybe squirt some penetrating oil and let it soak for a bit first.
That technique is for removing the pilot bushing from the end of the crankshaft. Grease works too.
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Took intake et al off. Just to inspect and put in new gaskets and seals everywhere-on a hunch....many of the intake and exhaust bolts were barely finger-tight.....most leaked in a spots here and there from the pressure washing.......
Roller rockers.
Lots of cruddy coolant passage build up.
Otherwise. It looked pretty good inside. However. You can see the gray liquid in there. Water. From pressure washing. Probably not enough to hurt it. But I'm glad I took it all down.
Roller rockers.
Lots of cruddy coolant passage build up.
Otherwise. It looked pretty good inside. However. You can see the gray liquid in there. Water. From pressure washing. Probably not enough to hurt it. But I'm glad I took it all down.
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Meanwhile. New seals all around engine and it's almost ready to go in. Waiting on a few small parts.
Found a bunch of old rtv and cork gasket in the oil pick up screen area last night. WTF.
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Looks like the Toyota F one I suspect non OEM also looks to be adapter.
