Builds Pigpen 🐷 an HDJ80 LHD Ute (1 Viewer)

[SNLC]

Tear down of the FT is in progress!

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[SNLC]

Not fun work for anyone.

Just about got the long block scrapped down. My $2k manual parts washer or the hot tank at one of my subcontractors shops will not be happy if we don’t do this. Parts washers, be it a manual or auto hot tank you still got to get the bulk off and prep or you will wreck your parts washer.

It’s a process and the filthier the more work on any engine. Scrape, scrub, wash, scrape...get it to a point you can put it in your wash basin be it a 5-gallon pail of diesel or a $15k automatic engine block washer.

Slowly but surely we will be working through getting all these engine parts clean as we move through the rebuild process.

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[SNLC]

So I was actually really surprised at the lack of soot and clogging up
with funk-oil. In both intake and exhaust. These EGR FT/FTE’s from what I have seen really tend to soot up, so bad that they will foul valves.

I am guessing that whenever head work was done it got cleaned out. Total guess though.

Regardless this FT needs a FULL go through and I am just keeping my the bottom end doesn’t need major work.

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[SNLC]

Also, as per the FSM (follow it folks, it’s your Cruiser “bible”), timing was checked and set to TDC before tear down.

It took 20-minutes of scraping to get all the timing marks visible, but hey that is a required step during tear down.

Yes, we know, what matters here is assembly after rebuilding but none the less, we are methodical in my shop and do things by “the book”.

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[OGBeno]

This is really the worst and most time-consuming part of quality engine rebuilding…

Cleaning and prep. People really can’t appreciate enough the shear amount of labor involved in engine preparation for the sexy build portion that we all love to see.

The building of an engine really is a systematic process of following procedures….

So, in effect, reproducible.

But cleaning and preparation decisions are equally as important…. I’d say even more so than the building of the engine itself, sometimes. Especially with old, used-up, engine variants like the PZ/HZ/HD family.

They have all lived very hard lives— every single one of them at this point in the game…

The engine family was prototyped in the late 1980’s by Toyota’s industrial division…. And placed into mass auto production by 12/1989.

…. In any event…Ian has this down to a concise science. Nice work dude.

 

[chapel gate]

"irish death"

makes a good engine cleaner too..?

 

[lp2k]

I may be wrong here but this is an engine that had low compression right? If so, could you share what comes next to correct that in your rebuild plans ?

 

[OGBeno]

"irish death"

makes a good engine cleaner too..?

@Irish Reiver

 

[SNLC]

I may be wrong here but this is an engine that had low compression right? If so, could you share what comes next to correct that in your rebuild plans ?

Didn’t even go as far as to test it iirc. The head has some really janky repairs and for what I want to do with it, It needs a refresh.

Yes, will be going through the bottom end and detailing that here in the thread. You can see the same thing over here in this thread,

Builds - The '93 Troopy Hodgepodge

So @TonyP showed up at the shop today! 😎 We did the shop “tour” thing and then he-we jumped on finalizing bottom end before assembly. Ring gap checked on new OEM rings, prep deck (head mating surface) and oil pan mating surface, ect-all. Old rings Going into it today we thought, maybe...

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[Irish Reiver]

@Irish Reiver

Have i time to get my coat

 

[SNLC]

It took sometime to get but...

That is literally just slapped up in there. Obviously lots of body and metal work to fit it. I like it though.


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[GeoRoss]

It took sometime to get but...

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That is literally just slapped up in there. Obviously lots of body and metal work to fit it. I like it though.


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I did a half-assed scan of the thread, but did you mention where the donor rear panel comes from? This looks like a pretty good match.

 

[spazzyfry123]

I did a half-assed scan of the thread, but did you mention where the donor rear panel comes from? This looks like a pretty good match.

Why half-ass when you could whole-ass?

Well, after taking some measurements and finding the part, I decided I am going with a 79-series pickup cab back.

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The part is already purchased and I will be using the 79-series rear sliding window as well.

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[SNLC]

Getting into it today.

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Frame is pretty rough.

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[tmxmotorsports]

Even more fill dirt

 

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Still going on it.

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Starting to take shape.

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Had enough for today so pushed it outside.

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