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Will be doing a HID Retrofit on my 2006 LX and a friends 2005 LX tomorrow or Friday using @Luke111 brackets and Morimoto stuff.

If anyone is interested in watching, helping or drinking some beer PM me.
 
Pics or videos or it didn't happen! :bounce::p
With the weight of the lathe off the boom hit the header over the door. We may have ripped the blue trim off :)
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With the weight of the lathe off the boom hit the header over the door. We may have ripped the blue trim off :)View attachment 1863447
I’m sorry Ryan, that’s friggin hilarious, as long as no one got hurt. I was wondering how you were going to get that in the shop....
 
No matter what, I think the best "lift" that occurred in that doorway was when the tub was removed from Bob's 40. Man o man it was quite the entertaining show!

There are still chunks of tub in the parking lot from doing that. Isn't that how you remove tubs?
 
Even though the engine has thankfully been resealed, re-installed and is running quite well I thought I'd post this pick of the engine out of the 40 and on its stand in the garage. Frankly I'm getting a little too old to be doing projects like this!

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Ooooo, the garage envy is real right now!!!
 
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Bob thanks for the compliment!

Patrick, took the engine out to replace the leaking rear main seal and also the side cover gasket. With the dual battery setup it would have been a real PITA to replace the side cover gasket in place. As it was I removed the distributor (large body later 2F unit) to do the side cover gasket. I had replaced the rear main back in 2010 when I installed the engine (which came out of my orange and white piggy after I flopped it) with a non-OEM seal. damn thing leaked from the day I fired up the engine and I finally got the s***s of it and pulled the engine. Having the engine out also allowed me to clean up the engine compartment and a bit and did some re-wiring too.

Those are Man-a Fre headers and the best I have ever used- and not just on a Toyota engine. They were on my 40 when I bought it, when I swapped my engine (it's a Jim C hi-po rebuild from around 2005) into the truck I used a new Toyota manifold gasket and it hasn't leaked at all since. The header has a very heavy flange that in my opinion would be hard to distort. The way the header (6 into 2 design) couples to the exhaust pipes is awesome. Uses two ball joints and they never leak either. They were originally purchased for and installed in the truck when it was at Ironpig back in 2008/2009. They still look good and work well. I would highly recommend them to anyone considering a header for their F/2F/3FE engine. Yeah I believe they are compatible with the EGR part of the 3FE smog setup. The attached photo shows how the exhaust pipes look without the engine and header in place. The pipe ends are flanged and fit over the ball ends of the headers and they get clamped together with two bolts through the heavy flanges on each section. Chrysler used to use exhaust systems like this way back when.

As you can see I pulled the front and apart to do this job and had to pull the bumper and winch to get the engine out. I don't have enough height to lift the engine high enough to clear the winch. I use a block and tackle for lifting like this and once the engine is hanging off the chains I roll the truck backwards out from under the engine. Sure was nice using the block and tackle to remove and then reinstall the bumper and winch!!!!!

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Patrick, took the engine out to replace the leaking rear main seal and also the side cover gasket. With the dual battery setup it would have been a real PITA to replace the side cover gasket in place. As it was I removed the distributor (large body later 2F unit) to do the side cover gasket. I had replaced the rear main back in 2010 when I installed the engine (which came out of my orange and white piggy after I flopped it) with a non-OEM seal. damn thing leaked from the day I fired up the engine and I finally got the s***s of it and pulled the engine. Having the engine out also allowed me to clean up the engine compartment and a bit and did some re-wiring too.

Those are Man-a Fre headers and the best I have ever used- and not just on a Toyota engine. They were on my 40 when I bought it, when I swapped my engine (it's a Jim C hi-po rebuild from around 2005) into the truck I used a new Toyota manifold gasket and it hasn't leaked at all since. The header has a very heavy flange that in my opinion would be hard to distort. The way the header (6 into 2 design) couples to the exhaust pipes is awesome. Uses two ball joints and they never leak either. They were originally purchased for and installed in the truck when it was at Ironpig back in 2008/2009. They still look good and work well. I would highly recommend them to anyone considering a header for their F/2F/3FE engine. Yeah I believe they are compatible with the EGR part of the 3FE smog setup. The attached photo shows how the exhaust pipes look without the engine and header in place. The pipe ends are flanged and fit over the ball ends of the headers and they get clamped together with two bolts through the heavy flanges on each section. Chrysler used to use exhaust systems like this way back when.

As you can see I pulled the front and apart to do this job and had to pull the bumper and winch to get the engine out. I don't have enough height to lift the engine high enough to clear the winch. I use a block and tackle for lifting like this and once the engine is hanging off the chains I roll the truck backwards out from under the engine. Sure was nice using the block and tackle to remove and then reinstall the bumper and winch!!!!!

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Nice work Gary!
 
I must have missed it...what happened to the engine? Also, who's headers are those?

I’ll buy this header I picked up for you and you can buy the Spector one.
 
I’ll buy this header I picked up for you and you can buy the Spector one.

I could probably be convinced of that. So will you then actually finally swap that 2F in your 40?
 

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