Blue Thing: The Daily / Motorkhana Hack (Now Efi)

[carbonboy]

looking good! I want that bucket for my garage! :D

 

Cheers man, the things you find just laying around. ;)

 

You cheated and bought new ones didn't you!!

 

How long until you assemble the bottom end?

 

I'll take that as a yes, they're clean enough. :)

 

The crank's going in this evening & clearances checked, once that's done I'm going to hit a bit of a wall until I can afford piston rings. Got the 6:30am don't-come-in-today call this morning, work's still quiet so just doing what I can.

[kickn5k]

 

I'll take that as a yes, they're clean enough. :)

 

The crank's going in this evening & clearances checked, once that's done I'm going to hit a bit of a wall until I can afford piston rings. Got the 6:30am don't-come-in-today call this morning, work's still quiet so just doing what I can.

 

ok then they will definitely need a quick hot soapy water wash before putting em in.

How much glad wrap do you have? You'd be suprized how much fine dust will get into an open clean block.

 

 

[carbonboy]

Yep, they have a WD-40 coating for now to stop rust forming on the conrods until the time comes that I install them.

 

I have plenty of glad wrap, happy you mentioned it as it makes me feel less paranoid! :laff:

 

[carbonboy]

What do you need when putting in crankshaft bearings & are also what I forgot to clean? Main bearing caps. :blush:

 

Before & after shots.

 

[carbonboy]

New core plugs in, happy-hammer-fun-times.

 

 

Good news, all I need is a set of standard-size piston rings, no special-sized jobbies. Win! The gap measurements are from the existing rings, so allowing for any wear a fresh set should see me by.

 

 

Suppressing the urge to "bugger the measurements & just slap it together" is harder than I expected, but f*ck it, I only want to have to do this once.

[67Rolla-Ken]

Damn, she's looking like new!

[azza91]

top job mate, it looks like new again.

[Sznaps]

ouuu yeah. Bring this beauty back to life man!

[carbonboy]

Cheers guys, I appreciate the comments as it means I'm heading in the right direction! I feel kinda bad re-using the rods/pistons but since new ones add too much to the build cost & I'm not running stupidly high compression/boost, they will suffice.

 

New rings arrive tomorrow, for a $10 difference between a set of cast & chrome rings, chrome please! :yes:

[carbonboy]

Yay! Now I can get into the really fun part!

 

 

See you all in a few days. :wave:

[azza91]

:)

[carbonboy]

Haven't gotten as far as I'd like to have, but all is good so far. Pistons have rings on them & side clearances are perfect.

 

 

This obviously came after checking the end gaps.

 

 

Mains in, ready to check oil clearances.

 

Edited October 21, 2013 by carbonboy

[carbonboy]

Well, today was fun! Kinda. Main bearing oil clearance check was going well.

 

 

 

Stupid clumsy me got careless removing the main caps after 'squishing' the Plastigauge, gouged up a bearing shell nicely on the crank.

 

 

Lots of swearing, followed by phone calls to my engine machinist to discover he's closed today. Oh well, skip the middle-man, called Precision Bearings Head Office which is about an hours drive to the other side of the city for me, they have the ones I need in stock so off we go!

 

 

Got home, only to realise that I had forgotten thrust washers....it's okay, I asked my local Repco to order me some yesterday & they were meant to call me back... Called the guy I spoke to previously:

 

Repco - "Nah, we're still waiting on a price"

Me - "I can tell you the price, I'm asking you if you have ordered them like I asked you to this time yesterday?"

Repco - "No need to get ups....."

Me - "HAVE YOU ORDERED THE F@&KING THINGS OR NOT?!?!"

Repco - "Uh, no...

Me - *Hangs Up*

 

So I drove ANOTHER two-hour round trip to the other side of the city for new thrust washers from Precision. $8.50 as opposed to the $60 inc freight charge Repco were going to slug me.

 

[end] /rant

 

Oil clearances also checked out A-Okay on the new, new bearings (as did crankshaft end-play) so this is where it's at at the moment.

 

 

[carbonboy]

I wanted to save money as much as possible on this build & intended to reuse the standard oil-pump. Then I looked at what I'd have to do to clean it, then thought about the consequences of pump failure. Yeah, no. Had I been a bit more organised, I could've spent a lot less time travelling the Monash Freeway this long-weekend...

 

On the bright side, I have a brand new 4A-GE 20v ST oil pump that has been ported/high-flowed from Sam at SQ Engineering, who also hooked me up with a brand new OEM rear-main oil seal. All for around half of what Toyota themselves would want for a standard 16v oil pump, for the price I'd be bloody stupid not to! SQ are also a sponsor of TCCAV, so I got a little discount too! :)

 

[carbonboy]

I had to get yet another visa to head across town to get, wait for it, a single gasket. The one for the rear-main oil-seal retainer/housing. The one I thought I had but didn't.

 

Then a bolt broke...

 

 

Drill & rotate out.

 

 

Fixed!

 

 

Dug this little gizmo out of the cupboard, an unknown manufacturer crankshaft under-drive pulley. Sitting inside a standard crank pulley gives an idea of the diameter difference.

 

 

Should help the alternator & water pump live long, healthy lives.

 

 

Seeing as I will be running neither Air-Conditioning or Power-Steering, only need the one thanks.