And in much less of a nail-biting vein I have some Frame porn for your:
I love that the video ends on the VIN/chassis number. Some day when I am dead and gone and if neither of my sons want the truck it will go to someone else to take care of and they will be able to see how we went about bringing this truck back and they will be able to be certain it is the same truck.
I am back in Dubai and despite struggling with a bad case of jet lag, went and had a closer look at things.
Apparently the engine already has been bored 50 over both cylinders and crank. But it looks pretty good. The mechanic advises going to 100 on both. I'm pondering to just say polish. As regards to the pistons themselves they are not OEM and I will replace them. I am working to find 1HD pistons because I intend to do a mild turbo on this 1HZ.
So we opened the transmission today. Rather evil liquids emerged.
But the gear train itself does not look too bad.
This is, of course, the R151F light duty transmission. There does seem to be some orange rusty liquid but I don't see any damage. I'm inclined to change the bearings and seals, check the condition of the synchros, and close it up again. We will make a decision tomorrow.
Consistent with Shrodinger's very essence, the answer is both yes and no. The original axels I don't think were. The replacement axels I am not sure about.
Work is proceeding in earnest again after some necessary delays. We are replacing the front and rear axels from a JDM 105 and they look really promising.
I am going to cut the discussion short on the engine because I decided not to put this back into Schrodinger. I did complete the rebuild and it turned out very nicely, but I am shipping the resulting engine to the US to use in another project there. Here is a photo of an interim stage:
And ready for shipping:
And crated:
As to what I am going to do for an engine for Schrodinger I am looking at another 1HD-T. Recently I've had opportunity to work on 1HZ, 1HD-T and 1HD-FT and I have to say that I prefer the 1HD-T. The 24 valves of the FT just don't seem worth all the complexity. Yet the 1HD-T does have some obvious improvements over the 1HZ, namely higher pressure pump, bigger diameter fuel lines, and a redesigned head with better cooling. I'm just at the stage of putting together a 1HD-T that originally I got for Schrodinger but have diverted it to another project here in Dubai.
