so tonight I tore into the truck
Finished draining the old gas, put some fresh gas in.
Bolted the skid plate back up ..
So after buying a truck that I have very little history on, I have to see for my self kind of approach so I remover the air box and inspected the flapper, things looked good there, so I proceeded to pull the valve cover, hmm. things get interesting. A very small amount of a milky residue was waiting for me in there on the valve cover and on the head bolts and alittle in the head pools, So Still a small hint to possible HG but not too fast. I put the engine on TDC and noticed that the cam gear was a tooth off! go figure no wonder why she wouldnt hold an idle. Also I noticed that there have been plastic guides put back in, fail.
So Im going to order up a set of steal backed guides for the old girl. Do it all over again now im rebuilding to 22re s in my barn with 2 geo metro motors to do also FUN .
Plans for tomorrow : remove crank pully
possibly take cover off, I want to wait kind of until I get the guides, I know that they are just a modified 20r guide, can i just call the parts store and order a 20r steel guide instead of ordering it from some kit I dont need, who get them from the parts store.
I am going to check all the fluids too.
on another note I have my 98 4runner with a cat going bad, So im going to drop that section and Reem her out, I dont run cats here. Also trying to find time to either re jet my webber on my 81 or start the efi swap waiting till it gets cooler
