Arts and crafts
OK, Hale asked for pics. Here’s where you start, lining up the timing marks, here with a pin to make sure the cam is at TDC
As per usual, click to embiggenate.
Next, remove all these vacuuum lines
And these.
Oh, and once you have that stuff all apart, don’t forget about these.
Two or three days of that, and a lot of bleeding, and some real pain, and you’ll get here.
After a lot of scrubbing of the engine block with stones, and cleaning the pistons, and carefully assembling all the things that could be assembled, you end up with this.
Now you’re nearly done. All you have to do is install the intake manifold, the fuel injectors, the fuel rail, the pulleys, belts, hoses, distributor, cap, rotor, plugs, gaskets, seals, exhaust manifold, gaskets, seals, wires, vacuum lines, gas lines, overflow lines, covers, brackets, spacers, smpers, and finally the vermicious knid.
Took a while, but it’s all in there, an hour or so at a time over the week before last (Once I finally got the damned head). And now it’s passed emissions, and I think I’m gonna give it a new thermostat just on principle, and then I just have to fix the door wiring so the windows work.
Oy.
Were you able to do it all from above, or was some crawling under required?
When we did the left head on my 2000 F-150, it made life a lot easier to get at removing the exhaust manifold, with the truck up on a lift.
Ended up a bigger job than first imagined. The head had to come off a 2nd time, to open the oil pan, undo a connecting rod, and push a bad piston out through the top.
Interference engine bent a piston skirt from “things gone wrong”, when an errant intake valve decided to zig when it was supposed to zag.
It ran like silk for a while after that, until some 18 y/o chickadee, texting on her cel, made a left turn across oncoming traffic, and the truck died with only 47k miles on it.
Won’t find one that mint again, short of the showroom floor.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Ouch. Damned shame. Yeah, on that engine you had to be ultra careful. No, I did most everything from the top. I think I crawled under it to change the oil.
Nice pics. Tell me you didn’t take it apart a second time just to get the pictures…
I did that job once (well, twice since it was for a V-6). Ford Windstar. That was when i discovered that at 90K miles it still had the factory installed spark plugs in the black 3 cylinders, despite my having paid the slealership to install new ones.
It’s always a temptation to go overboard when taking down heads. As long as i am doing this… let’s do the timing belt. As long as I am doing that… Let’s do the waterpump. Change out all the fluids. New PVC valve. Hoses. Clamps. Belts. maybe even a new MAF sensor and O2 sensor or two.
Yeah, it’s called shipfitters disease, you start by replacing a couple deck screws and next thing you know you’re laying a new keel. I base my plans on this: What will be most difficult to get to when it’s all together. And I don’t mess with anything that’s simple to access. No, I didn’t take it back apart, but I should snap a couple “Complete” pictures. In fairness to the Toyota, it was all possible. No screw was stuck so badly it didn’t want to come out. I was quite impressed.
they are pretty good cars I hear. I will have to do something similar to the Gold Wing. Never by anything that runs without a battery. Oh well. Looks to be a head gasket at least so that is not so terrible. Getting the thing high enough to work on will be a challenge but we shall see.
Glad you got it going.
@ Paul B.
Horror Freight/Northern Tools, both sell a fairly cheap motorcycle lift platform, which I’d highly recommend to you.
When you’re done, you can keep it as a permanent parking platform for the ‘Wing, which will also make detailing the bike easier.
Or, you can just sell it on Craigslist for half of what’cha paid for it, and call it a cheap rental.
Lordy, I miss owning a Gold Wing.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
LOL! Love the Dahl ‘Great Glass Elevator’ reference!
I’m glad someone got it.
Nicely done!