ajg193

Make sure to use proper EFI hose clamps or the cert man will ping you

The thing that caught me out once was my roller has two grooves, one for small wire and another for big wire. I was running big groove with small wife for ages and always got frustrated with it being intermittently crap. Flipping roller over fixed it

Your nipples

Magnesium is fine to machine. Main thing is to keep the swarf dry

Probably the same pistons as 3Y - I might still have 2 spare good pistons laying around if I didn't throw them in the bin. Edit: Looks like I probably biffed them. I'll check in the attic some time. I've still got two good connecting rods in the garage if you need them but they will probably be different to 2Y

It will be fine, it's only a forklift motor.

Reminds me of that episode of Everybody Loves Raymond where the grandpa loves old records and says they sound better than CD even though they are shit

Probably not relevant for OHC engines but some old Barries reckon to use softer springs for the cam break in period (obviously with no boost) to give you less chance of eating a lifter.

Also if you paint the exhaust black they won't see the leak That high temp red RTV stuff would probably hold up better than that exhaust gum stuff too

Last WoF I had a note about spring shackle bushes being borderline on hilux. Looks like I can get the parts from amayama. Am I better off buying just the bushings ($50 all up) or buying two shackle kits ($180 all up)? I presume the shackle kits come with all new bolts and shackles. /edit: looks like the shackle kits might not actually be in stock

Nah that's always been the case. Especially as the cars are getting older, you can't expect everything to exist. Usually best to check if parts partsouq has anything in stock as they seem pretty accurate

You could buy a lot of spray wax for that /I'm sure OEM paint usually lasts more than 5 years anyway with minimal care

Apparently top fuel engine cranks twist so much that they can have up to 15 degrees different timing between front and rear cylinders

@kpr and @Roman would be the guys with brains to pick.

You're going about it all wrong nick, you need to just put some big resistive heaters on your fence and aim the heat from the sun away from your property.

My heat pump guy reckons to not turn it on within 5 minutes of turning it off and that sudden power cuts while it is compressing is bad for the compressor

I don't think that is even worth giving away for free, looks like absolute trash. The only good thing about it is the Juki nozzles Closed loop motors are not going to give any placement accuracy bonus if you don't have closed loop rails, especially if you are running belts

4K would have dropped straight in, a 7/8 race cam and you'd be laughing / I'm pretty sure this thing of yours was only like a second slower on the quarter mile at drag day than my brother's Capri, but his thing is more traction limited

Are they called iceberg because you can only see 10% of the problems at first glance?

@kws

I reckon those white plates suit it, especially with how they still have the old white plate font. Would be a shame to get modern black plates on it (I'm assuming your posts in the plates thread referred to this car)

Do you know what the story is behind the plates on it? Carjam doesn't show any earlier plates, but it seems strange someone would put new ones on just as it got taken off the road

The things I would be concerned about with your string method is that it probably won't pick up if the car is skewed (back axle offset to one side or at an angle), it would also struggle if you just take book values for track widths instead of actually measuring the tracks. I wonder if putting some coloured chalk dust on the tyres and then rolling them forward would leave a usable track on the ground for measuring the car?

I'm sure you are already aware, but best practice is to start with both rods equal length and keep them equal. ie for more toe in wind both out

Could be worth draining a bit out the bottom of the tank before starting the pump, could have a layer of water from sitting for years