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Yeh true. Last one I had done I only had .4mm max runout on the head but I got it skimmed anyway. For cleanup, I use this stuff. Killer I could get a head off and on again in 30 minutes if I wanted too, but to do it properly, block the water gallery holes, cloth down the bores, spray and scrape the crud off, that's the best part of an hour!

sweet that's what I was hoping, although couldn't be sure, just because the compressed length is shorter, it might not mean extended length is shorter. This is good news, it means anyone running shorter springs can still remain captive although increase in stiffness and addition of KE20 strut tops may affect it again. Will keep posted, I'll source a set of KE20 inserts now instead of bothering with KE10 ones.

DIG DIG DIGGING!!! So from what I gleaned in this thread, the Ke20 shock is about 50mm shorter than a KE10 shock.... Is the actual stroke shorter though? Where I'm heading with this is that a shorter stroke shock will get around the non-captive spring issue if I get a custom set of springs made up.

Finally finished sanding, last of the 2000 grit over and done with. Polished 2 rims, no time for the other 2, I'll get new rubber on them tomorrow, finish polishing later this week then onto the car....

Project engineer for a construction job upgrading part of the process plant. Technically interesting job but some of the political dramas are insane!

It's hard to no how many people are too lazy to spell "know" and how many just don't have a clue.

Hmm, i wouldn't be surprised if you have issues with the head again if you didn't skim it. Did you straightedge it?

haha, all good. It also amazes me how many people on this site own carollas!

did you toot or something I recall seeing a hilux and thinking hmm that was odd?

Who're you working for, Caledonia? It's good fun, but I imagine you'll be on a 3/1 or 4/1 week roster? I was on a 10/4 day roster which was pretty good, longest stint I did was 17 days straight. Dunno how some blokes go 4-5 weeks at a time!

I was at roxby for 12 months. I'll happily go to any mine in the country again as long as it's not that one haha. Single best bit of advice I can give is bank all you can. Drink and be merry but it's all too easy to piss your cash up the wall in the desert when there's nothing else to do. And when your hanging with scaffies they like punching on, we put 8 of them on the plane one morning after their RDO boxing match.

Would have not would of. A lot. Not alot. And then there's the quotation marks.......

Archie Robertson in Bayswater I used years ago. Good dude to deal with, he's on edelmaier street.

Sounds like the gaskets was the issue then. You should always put some never seize under the bolt head so you get correct torque readings, otherwise the friction accounts for much of the torque. Cam I wouldn't bother trying to adapt a bypass, later k engines had a whole lot more plumbing for emissions and so on, I doubt you'll see any real gain in reliability. Edit- you most likely won't see any damage to the head gaskets if its only been faulty for a short while.

I don't often park my car anywhere other than work, hone or supermarket but when I do I often get notes. I just ignore them, usually just people wanting to buy it.

Yeh good question, I would be asking the same myself. TRD valve springs seem like expensive overkill, buy a newer better set of Crows, keep the TRDs as a talking point then sell them in 10 years to the NOS crowd for loads of money. The only reason I changed my standard springs was because one failed me. Regularly saw 7000 revs and drove it as a daily for 12 months before it failed. My cam has .480 lift, well and truly beyond the standard .38 lift.

Is it a recovery typr of radiator cap? Because if you went to the shop and asked for a KE20 type cap, they may have given you a Non-Recovery cap. With a Non Recovery cap, every time your engine gets up to temperature, you push water to the overflow tank, but as it cools, it doesn't get drawn back into the system. Tridon Recovery style PN: CA0750 Tridon Non-Recovery style PN: CN0750

The second valve spring isn't for dampening a the harmonics; dual springs allow much higher valve lift than a single because they have much shorter solid height than a single. You may likely see a decrease in nose pressures with a double spring vs a single. The dampening of harmonics can be achevied in two ways: spring dampener which is a ribbon spring that rubs on the outer spring to dissipate energy (friction) or an interference fit on double springs where the inner and outer rub on one another.

Yeh I would hold off ripping off the head like dave said. When mine failed I did not get cappucino foam on the coolant, nor did I get water in the oil, but once the cap was off, there were significant bubbles indicating compression leakage. Get a comp tester or leakdown tester, that will pick up a leak.

Surprise! haha. It'd be a roaring forties replica. http://www.roaringforties.com.au/ Very very nice car. You used to be able to get the kit for about 65 grand, they started off making them down Mornington Peninsula in melbourne. I had a great chat with the dude who started the company, lots of re engineering and improvements to the original chassis, but very anal about attention to detail. Hard to pick from the real thing.

First of all, why do you consider this a cooling issue? Are you continuously topping up water? Do you have a return valve cap on your radiator. If you're not actually overheating, then what's the issue? Also, put a thermostat in the car, it's not a modification, it's an 8 dollar replacement part that is necessary for proper operation of the engine. When the first water comes out the overflow, how hot is it? Because if it's only warm to medium, then my money is on head gasket. I had the same issue with my 3K, after running for a few minutes, but not long enough to get up to operating temperature, it was pushing warm water out the overflow. It's basically combustion pressure escaping and pressurising the water jacket.

Mate if you're getting stuck, I ran Crow 4220's in my large cammed 5K. Went straight into the 5K no problems (after I broke a valve spring) have a read of this thread. http://www.rollaclub.com/board/topic/38950-valve-spring-discussion-whos-used-what/

I forgot that I use a program on my phone to track fuel usage :lolcry: Around town I get a consistent 9.5L/100km and that's running twin 40mm dellortos.

http://www.robearracing.com/pd-golden-eagle-vacuum-manifold-turbo.cfm

Probably for the older O ring style valve stem seals which will be much narrower. I have the numbers at home somewhere but 15.5 ID sounds much too small for the Steel ones even. I'll check tonight.