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As promised... You can see where the sealing ring sits here:

Creek is down at the moment, lets see what another 6m in the river does though. Another thing I have been thinking about is that they dredged the brisbane river from Ipswich to who knows for gravel in the early 90's, I wonder if that will reduce the flood levels.

This is the creek in the back yard at 9:30am, we are meant to get another 6m yet. EDIT: Fixed vid.

I am in the gully that went under in 74, the Goodna boat ramp is under and creeks are now inline with the river and there is more water coming.

I have a few brand new turbo rebuild kits sitting at work so I will pull one out and get some pics. Diesels are prone to running dirty, they have more detergents in the oil to help keep the engine clean, there is nothing wrong with using deisel oil in a petrol engine, I use to run castrol RX super in my old seca once in a while just to help remove carbon.

Turbo's DO NOT have oil 'seals', they have an oil control ring that is that similar to a compression ring on a piston, they are called a seal because well they seal the chamber and do not let oil out, the seal does not get brittle and hard, it will get covered in carbon and fail the same way a compression ring does. If the turbo has not been used in a while then you can do one of the following: 1, put oil in the turbo be either filling the inlet or drain. 2, Undo the turbo drain, pull the plugs out (including the coil driver/ignitor) and wind the engine over until there is oil present in the drain.

Why didn't you offset the manifold so the rear closer to the head.

I have always done what Scott said between 500 - 1000 but the 3tc might be different in the fact that it doesn't need to be.

Good work Andrew, the gasket set should say on it when to re-tighten it.

Mrs said she doesn't like the wheels but they suit the car.

Looks good Ev.

No, I am in QLD, I have just got parts from Cabe Toyota in Long Beach CA before, my top hose pipe I got here in Oz brand new.

Turbo, P plate sleeper, the seller is a dumb f@$k, I hate these fools that get a car and treat it like shit just because it has the right engine, if you followed the build like I did then you would understand as it isn't just a cressida wagon with a 1j and r154.

Ran what?

Yeah, I will get you a pic tomorrow/today.

I was just showing my interest.

:yes:

Yeah it is to bleed the clutch.

All done and running, just gotta finish off a few cosmetic things he asked to be done, I will admit that I made a f@$k up though, when I was putting the sump on I pre tested it to see if it hit the oil pickup and it was sweet but it was so close that it was restricting oil flow (thank god the engines are assembled with assembly lube) which is a fairly common mistake since the pickup is so close to the sump, so the x member was dropped down and the sump pulled off to give it a hit to allow more clearance, 30 mins later and it had proper oil pressure. Will get some final pics tomorrow.

Yeah no longer available and this is from Toyota in California.

NLA in the US either.

The f@$king builder of the car sold the car a lot less and it wasn't thrashed back then, f@$king wankers.

I got mine brand new after they ceased production, you never know who has one laying around I was told that everything apart from the top rad outlet was getting hard for toyota to get, I will send my supplier in California an email and see what he can do for me.

J series box or commodore?

The oil filter head we ordered isn't sealing right so we need to get another small block chev filter head and then it will be rev time. EDIT: And skid time.