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So, you're cryo treating the engine now............
H8PVMNT,First, I commend you for your incredible persistence and scrounging ingenuity!... and in adverse conditions! If you had not documented your project so well, I might have had trouble believing it. You are testimony to the power of the human will and perhaps a new level of engine-building-frugal-ness!! Im very anxious to read about your engine break-in and after you do your tweaking. If I get a chance to get to Highwood, MT, Im going to buy you and family a nice dinner!! .....If you get a chance to make it near Casa Grand, AZ .breakfast, lunch, or dinner is on ME. ...........IF.... I get to go for a ride in your hot-rod!! Gnarls.
Finally fired it up. Dropped in Wal-Mart 10W30 with about a half a bottle of that Lucas engine break in stuff. I cranked for about 40 seconds with the coil wire unhooked to get the fuel and oil up. Caleb turned the key while I shot the footage. It has a vac line leaking and an open header here but this is the first fire...https://youtu.be/hCkWcJIRp4A
I have a little over 4,000 miles on this engine so far and it is running great. Still love the 22re performance 282 cam. Oh yeah, the used rear main seal started leaking . I'll drop the trans again and put a nice one in there.
Jim says .007-.008 intake and .010-.011 Exhaust. I will re-adjust at my next oil change. I figure this is a real break in point for the valve lash.
The DNJ bits I have ordered so far were from an online outfit: https://www.partsology.com/ Main reason I went with them is I liked their search and they have the 20r bits listed and figured out. Prices were great and I have gotten everything the next day every order so far. There has been a bit of discussion on where DNJ parts are manufactured. I know engnbldr sells DNJ also and their parts may be from different sources. I looked at my boxes from partsology.com and here is what I found...The rod and main bearings: CHINAThe head gasket: TAIWANThe valve cover set: TAIWANThe intake gasket: CHINA (I'm sure Chinese paper is just as good as Taiwanese paper )
... So on the way home Thursday night at almost exactly 19,000 miles on this engine the DNJ head gasket went GUBoooSH! ….Looking at the gasket it appears the Kanuder Ring became detached from the gasket and got floppy. You can see the blow out a the end of my greasy finger...
The 22re Performance 282 cam, which I still love, has only a little polish on the lobes after a rev happy 19,000 miles. Looks to be wearing fine. While I had the head off I decided to reseal the timing cover, oil pan and replaced the slightly leaking front main seal with "Type-T" Toyota seal that is thinner so it rides in an un-worn spot on the crank pulley. I just happened to have that seal in my stash too. The oil pan was a cheap cork one, which shrank a lot and has been getting gooey. Swapped to an later silicone style oil pan and used black Permatex on it. I'll miss the nice big 1st gen oil drain plug but I won't miss the leaky cork. I used paper gaskets and Toyota black on the timing cover which was doing so-so. I tried the Toyota black sealer only this time because I had not more gaskets. I let it tack up and sit overnight finger tight before torqueing. We will see how that does.I didn't have any more intake gaskets either so I used Permatex black and let it skin over real good. I have no idea if this will work out but if it doesn't it's not too tough to replace intake gaskets.
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