Seedy Al Posted May 3, 2014 Share Posted May 3, 2014 SO.......... basically I couldn't help my self. This came up for sale on here and I had to have it, becasue it was cheap, and I was going to where it was for sale anyway...... So the details. is a 1981 NZ New Toyota Crown. 227000km on the clock 5m motor with auto, and thats about it really haha. used to reside in napier, and came on these most yuck wheels, 14 inch 100 spoke wires. From memory it didnt look to bad on these wheels when it was all slammed out, and it did come with the cut springs it used to have, now has some sort of aftermarket springs in it that have some how jacked it to shit????? anyway, the story was when i bought it , it had an odd over heating problem. when i picked it up, it was running mint! drove it round napier for a bit with no problem. come a few hours later and it randomly over heated.. Interesting, but basicly i topped up the water and drove it back from Napier to wellington, no problems. (although i did swap the radiator cap with another i had,) Drove it round for a little bit, and noticed the temp was doing some weird things. Got My lovely lady Mourning CupCake to take it to Alltorques work for a wof, failed on a spot of rust, exhaust leak, and brakes pulling to one side. not to bad. Noticed at this point, that the water pump was original..... hmmm........ 227000km on an original water pump........ good going, but whats the bet its fucked inside. SO I started the hunt for a new one. Then, one morning on the way to work, it mega over heated........ Yip, the head gasket is fucked now for sure. So then came the fun stuff........ parked it in my shed and pulled it apart. its funny how quickly you can get things done with no distractions and a little no how. had the head off in about 40min. pretty happy about that. Besides one thing........... sometimes, even as a trained mechanic, you still make fuck ups. Mine was thinking that the reason the cam wheel bolt wont undo is because someone had fucked up the install at some point, however...... turns out they are left hand thread!!!!!!!! so I snapped it. woops, a bit embarrassing indeed. Moving on. I removed the water pump. Yip its fucked all right. I have no idea how I managed to get it down from napier. But im glad it worked. Also found the blow in the head gasket. right on the back cylinder. had the head skimmed by Grotty from Custom Works in lower hutt. Seems it had been leaking for some time thats for sure. took a bit of machining. Also. managed to get water pump and head gasket from repco. Dont normally use repco, but part master were fucking around. and I'm glad I did. Becasue they totally fucked up, and sold me the head gasket for $10 under there cost. Lol. So thats my story so far. have some pics. Strokers Life Not bad for an oldish girl, besides being jacked to shit Lovely Blown Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seedy Al Posted May 3, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 3, 2014 so this is the water pump.... as you can see. its fucked. 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 4, 2014 Author Share Posted May 4, 2014 Average update. Got it running again today. Temp behaved nicely so thats good. Motor was a bit rattly in the top end. So ran it round to get it hot. Set the tappets. So hopefully that gets rid of most of it. However still have a few cunty problems that I had thought I had fixed. Mainly the exhaust leaks and the pulling to the left While braking. Rwbuilt the rear brake cylinders in a hope that was the problem. However. It was not. So had a look at the tyre on the left front. Has a bit of wear on the inside so am going to change it with the right rear one. And also grease the caliper slides However I tjink its a wheel alignment issue. Which will suck if it is. Because I intend on lowering this after the wof. Which would need another wheel alignment again. But oh well. Anywsy. Wall of text. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 In an attempt to over come my pulling to one side issue, I rebuilt the rear brake wheel cylinders, as apparently it was dragging on the drivers side, so this seemed like it could be true. Hover after rebuilding and re adjusting everything, it would seem that was not the problem but anyway, today was a little bit succesful, kinda. drained oil and changed filter, chuck in some desiel oil to help clean the motor out a bit, however, it would seem the 4 litre container i got was not enough to even get it reading on the dip stick. but started it anyway. After having adjusted the tappets the other day its oh so much quieter!!!!!!!! Also pushed back front brake pistons so hopefully that will help with the pulling Anyway, yay, hopefully be driving it tomorrow!!!!! again...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seedy Al Posted August 17, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2014 wow mega update So yeah, eventually got a wof, had to get a wheel alignment and other sit to get it sorted, but it is sorted. Used it to get up to Parmy swap meet, first decent drive since doing the head gasket etc. went pretty well, including towing a slam trailer. So yeah, been pretty keen to get it lowered as we are planning on driving this down to the hanmer meet. So over the last week been sorting out the bits and pieces I needed to get it slammed Done deal. as you can see, the springs are different, in a good way. holy crap those cobras are so yuck! and the result much better. and no more yuck wires. Really need to clean up my SSR's tho. been sitting for too long. However, the back needs to come down a tad maybe, looking like its got a bit of rake on, not surprised really as I took a quarter of a coil off the front, as I concluded if the car still had original bump stops in it, then it must not have been low enough, so I modded the bump stops also. the back is just captive, which I am surprised about, as all my other crowns have had shorter shocks in the rear. So that might be on the cards soon also Next step is to cut out the inner wheel archers where the tires rub, pretty common practice on crowns, for me anyway. word. Discuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/43431-seedy-als-brown-crown-non-wag/ 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 15, 2015 Author Share Posted May 15, 2015 Hey! heres an update. Took this down to hamner springs Went ok, but always smelt fummy, like gas was burning somewhere Went to go to an os cruise up parmy way got pink stickered was a bit sad so sort of thought about what I was going to do, get cert and try get one of my V8s in there was what I thought would be a good idea. But this didn't happen, instead have decided just to fix the 5m, was running so rich the oil was getting thinned out, and as a result oil pressure was lacking So, pulled off two main caps, and yeah, bit of scoring. So now its time to decided how far to go with the engine. But firstly it needs to get pulled apart. managed to drag motor down to work today for a sunday mission. And yeah. yay crowns. yay................ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 17, 2015 Author Share Posted May 17, 2015 good afternoon So a productive day, went to trenthan swap meat this morning, and then pulled my motor down So far not looking to bad, someone has fondled the balls of this motor before, not much of a lip at all on the bores, and the big ends are 10 tho over sized, So all in all ok, crank is a bit iffy from the lack of oil pressure, so not sure if going to get away just a polish, or if its going to have to be ground. very keen to not have it ground as that is heaps more work. but you can only do what you got to do. Anyway, yeah, rad. head went in the stripping bath hang out over night and get most the shit out of it, will probably strip that down tomorrow night maybe, see if the valve seats are going to seal up ok. So once I have measured the bores and have the crank looked at, can figure out how much shit I am going to have to buy etc. And then the cleaning fun begins. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seedy Al Posted July 8, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 8, 2015 So shits been happening, but not as quickly as I hoped. pulled out frost plugs, who would have thunk that 35 years of not caring for a cooling system would some how cause the block to fill with crap. so had a hell of a time trying to get all that out, lots of jabbing with a screw driver and compressed air. which meant I could finally get on with a few things, like honing the bores, and decking the block. block was pretty bad where the gasket had blown prevoisly. looking pretty good now. So have pretty much everything to finish. Rings, bearings, timing chain, gasket set, and a new timing chain tensioner gear. Also heads been stripped, valves cleaned and machined, just need to vac test the valves to see if the seats are good, and that can go back together. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seedy Al Posted July 12, 2015 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 12, 2015 Casual update. Spent a bit more time on this yesterday and today. Block went in the hot was to get all the machining dust and other shit out and off the engine. Then cleaned up pictons and ring groves. Then, went to go fit big end bearins to conrods to measure, nope, turns out they are wrong. quick bit of research, engine changed in 1984, so I have been sent later model big ends, so will get that sorted Thankfully not a same case with the mains, so managed to atleast get the crank in. Measured good and turns nicely. Then today, I painted the block and smashed in the new frost plugs, then spent some time cleaning up other bits, pulled the rocker gear apart as that was full of old oil crust, cleaned the auxillery shaft and put that in. But yeah, biggest problem I for see in the future is a damn sump gasket. I hadn't paid any attention when I pulled it all apart and had hoped I could just get away with using 3 bond, but no, and old gasket is shot. So maybe with some luck I will be able to find a conversion / bottem end set for not heaps of money.... got a good deal on the top set, but that was repco clearance price. Also checked head, 3 valve seats need work, not to bad, will try convince engine builder at work to do them for me. lovely 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seedy Al Posted April 5, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 5, 2016 Fuck I have owned this car for a long time, and most of that off the road. Ah, project life' Anyway, Wash this face. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seedy Al Posted April 25, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 25, 2016 So yeah, This is the start of a new era for this car Basic story goes, after my Crown Wagon failed its revin on needing a repair cert for wof, I was pretty much ready to pack it all in and try sell this, the wagon, 2jz and everything as a package. But, after a bit of thinking, a few beers and cigs looking at the cars, I figured, whats the point in just giving up on everything, why not make something sweet here, I have the time, so....... I decided to pull all of the cool shit out of the wagon, Ie, manual column change, bench seat, shit like that. This sounded easy in theory...... Surely I can just remount this and cut that and it will be sweet. Nope, meant everything from swapping diff heads to cutting out floor sections and swapping them over. But the wagon is now all back together, and now I know everything that needed to swap over, putting this back together should be easy as. I finished the wagon yesterday afternoon, ready to sell. And then spent till 10.40pm fitting stuff back into this, Ie have fit the Coloumn change and steering box, accelerator cable and pedal, speedo cable, hand brake etc. But now, a little bit at a place where I need to sort out stuff to continue now. Need to weld the floor sections in to this that I removed from the wagon, need to make a hole in the firewall for the clutch master cylinder, need to get Steelies to modify my bolt on spacers which means its in the air till I get those sorted, I also want to water blast the engine bay before the motor goes back in, which means it needs to be rolling before I can do that. Basicly, lots to do, probably in a order, will tackle each bit as I go. Also have a new clutch kit sorted as the old one I got from the states was fucken shit. ANYWAY. keep an eye on stuff. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 Clutch life 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted April 27, 2016 Author Share Posted April 27, 2016 Gah, its easy to forget how much a conversion can cost when your are trying to sort out the whole lot at the same time haha Just purchased EFI pump, fuel lines (need to replace all rubber lines for EFI hose), pipe fittings and hose clamps. Along with a fuel pump bracket. Total of 253.60. Not to bad I guess Actually think that is the most of the spending sorted now, Just need to do rear exhaust section, and some rear tyres. Damn......... Oh and buy a 32mm hole saw to do my clutch master cylinder mounting. WHO DOES UP CARS! Slash might need some recovery time before I start on the next one....... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 So the pictures above relate to fitting the clutch master cylinder. I pulled the setup out of my wagon, so this actually gave me a good way of making a template. I basicly took a piece of cardboard and took a "rubbing" of the bolt holes and hole for the cylinder it self This crown already had the bolt holes, but not the master hole. So after taking a rubbing, I traced it out with a pen, then used a compass to find the center. If no one did this sort of stuff at school I will explain, basicly, take the diameter of the circle, then divide by half. Set your compass to this measurement, and then scribe an arch from the outside of the circle in, do this in two places, and where the arches cross, is the center of the circle. I did more than two for good measure (pun) then, punch the bolt holes in the cardboard, taped it to the fire wall using the bolt holes as a reference. then center punched the middle of the circle, drilled pilot hole and hole sawed my 32mm hole. Un fortunanlty cant fit cylinder yet, as I went to go fit it, and noticed a bit of weepage. opened it up and it needs a rebuild, surprised it worked at all to be honest! so have a kit coming Monday. Also got my new fuel pump, fittings and bracket together, have found a place to mount it in the chassis, but need to make a plate for it to mount on. Also started the replacing the fuel lines for EFI ones (showing the EFI proof writing for easy reading under vehicle) And yeah, that, is where I am currently Really need to get the floor sections welded up so I can progress, was hoping for this weekend, but work is oit of gas and from what I hear Boc have no argo shield atm Plus have some other shit going on this weekend But it really needs to be done during the day, as its a bit dark down the back of the shed...... this might put me back a week damn it. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 UPDATE I finally fucking finished the fuel system. / Just need to wire in the cable I have run to the relay which is yet to make it onto the car. So pump is mounted, rubber hoses all changed, and shit like that Oh and I rebuilt the clutch master cylinder today, so that went in along with the clutch pedal, exciting right? Pictures pump wiring Master and mounted 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 also apparently photo bucket knows more about my pictures than I do, hence the side ways shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 So, I finally managed to get over a mild stone, floors are now floors again after fucking around trying to arrange a time when I could borrow a welder (thanks TGB for the offer!) now I just have the super un fun job of grinding it all back, welder was a cunt in spots, went super bird shit in one area. never figured out why. Oh well. Atleast its done looking forward to getting the drive shaft loops in and finally get the carpet and seat into this thing. And because this thread doesn't have enough pictures, 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 20, 2016 Author Share Posted May 20, 2016 10 days later and something else has happened! Last weekend was out as I donated my Saturday to Driving Born loser Chris around, which was a pleasure And then had oldnrustys 30th that night which fucked my sunday So progress has been slow But have a full day to play with tomorrow However Wednesday I managed to get the floor sections undersealed, and installed the drive shaft loops today so everything is coming along 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seedy Al Posted May 21, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted May 21, 2016 wow, had a super fucking massive day on this. longest day I have spent on this car in a very long time Super rapped mega thanks to beaver too, who came over in the afternoon to try rid him self of a hang over, managed to get a lot further than I had hoped for thanks to him So today, got the carpet in, bench seat in, seat belts in. had to put the diff head back in, lacking an LSD for now, as having issues finding one. Also put the lowered springs and shortend shocks in the back, worried about bump to clearance so will have to see how that goes I guess. Steelies engineering modified my bolt on spacers, as they had no locating rings on them. As always manu did a fucking amazing job, and now I know I don't have to worry about such things for the cert. Also, have decided to paint the chassis and inner guards in the engine bay, just to tidy things up. Wasn't really looking forward to taking the guards etc off as re=running wiring looked like it would be a cunt. Turns out, beaver found out the inner guards come out without having to remove the gaurds them selves. so I'm happy about that. Anyway, some sort of pictures. So yeah, next step. water blast engine bay bits, chassis etc so I can paint chassis, then motor can go in. YAY! 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted May 29, 2016 Author Share Posted May 29, 2016 ALLLLLLLLLLLll RIGHT Consider water blasting engine bay A Great Success. Painted some degreaser stuff on Wednesday, figures crossed weather was going to be not raining Thursday. It wasn't, So woop, the blasting commenced. Its amazing how much difference such a simple act can make. For the first time ever I found a chassis number for the car haha Anyway, spent yesterday Fixing Nikis daily, so didn't get very far on this. Managed to drop the steering box and idler out of the car, so I can paint hat stuff gloss black. Then proceeded to paint the chassis with a light coat un under body seal in a can. Maybe not the most best or showy stuff to use, but I like the matt colour and it sprays really nice and controlled. Might try get another cost on it today. Then I can look at getting motor in next week. Sunglasses.pdf Oh And I pulled my brake master cylinder apart for rebuilding. BEFORE Middle Inner gaurds I am going to paint with satin black, probably out of a can as setting up a spray gun is more fucking around than its worth. This aint no Sheepers / Snoozin Build. Oh Brake master cylinder insides for fun' 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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