6 weeks condensed into one “what I did to my pig today”(150 hours). Sorry I didn’t have time for a play by play. I still had to go to work while I took this little project on. Basically my last trip was to “Cruisin In The Woods” (Oregon)[2500 miles] I burned 12 QTs of oil. Bought a six pack of beer with every six pack of oil. Apparently the PO tried to hone out some rust stains in a couple cylinders and made them oval shaped, oil rings finally stopped doing their job if they ever did
Scope was to clean up engine compartment and components as well as rebuild engine:
Powder coat satin black; Skid plate, splash plates and battery box
De-crust and paint black; bell housing, engine mounts, pan, block and misc. parts
De-rust and yellow cadmium plate; fan shroud, overflow bottle brackets, throttle linkage, misc. brackets
Scrub, clean and touch-up paint misc. components as necessary
Engine bay(wheel wells and side aprons); clean, sand, de-rust and prime with etching primer, white primer and paint with 2 part polyurethane original Toyota factory color white #31
Engine; sleeve block for new standard size pistons, new rods, polish crank, 10 under main and rod bearings, grind cam and lifters. Balanced crank, flywheel, clutch and pulley sequentially. Balanced rods. Tune up a previously done valve job, new water pump
I had a machine shop do the above engine part milling and balancing and did the assembly myself
Just hit 500 mile break-in and ready to re-tighten the head and rockers and re-adjust valves. Very smooth running and quiet ( if you can call a 2F engine quiet.) Looking forward to my first excursion with a new engine.
I realize that compared to what some of you mudders out there accomplish this is fairly basic. But it’s been 45 years since I built engines as a kid so this was a true test for me. Hope you enjoy the pics if I can successfully load them. Inspired by all I hear on IH8MUD.
