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Oil pump.

Finally found a 7M pump.

that would allow me to mod the pickup and the crossover pipe to sit the 4M sump. 

I had almost everything I needed to run a dash 8 hose for the crossover pipe but I could also,  If I bought everything, fit a dash 10 in there. 

Bigger is always better especially when it comes to the main oil feed so dash 10 it will be. 

Need to make the relief spring spacer but that's no drama. 

Still haven't figured out triggers for the ecu yet. 

Also I made this. 

It's a corner shelf for the shower. 

Currently there is a tiny shelf thing which is worse than useless and gets drenched whenever the shower gets used to soap gets turned to mush very quickly. 

It's made it is some bits of ali angle and chanel I had. 

Was driving home from work yesterday and I came slowly coating to a stop at a red light. 

As I was sitting there the car stalled as the light went green and I went to take off. 

Weird,  cranking resulted in what was obviously something wrong,  it was cranking with a weird rhythm and wouldn't start. 

So me and the wife towed it the 4ks home and I started trying to figure it out. 

End result is that somehow the cam belt jumped a couple of teeth. 

Like how the fuck did it do that?

Seriously it was idling, nothing looks wrong but the tensioner does feel a little weird when I compress it and release it. 

Is not like any of these parts are old. 

Fucked if I know,  anywho I might as well put a new belt and tensioner in it. 

I don't actually know if this engine is an interference motor or not,  obvs stock jen one UZ aren't  but this has kelford SC cams in it and I can't remember if they make it interference or not. 

I didn't hear anything at the time but the radio was on and from past experience  when the pistons just kiss the valves they don't actually make a lot of noise. 

I'll get new parts,  put it back together and do a compression test I suppose. 

Simply add 4 cubes of garden mulch and hey presto!

Raisedish garden bed. 

Did a bit more. 

Pistons in and rotating assembly all together.  Spins freely which is a plus. 

Went to put the lay shaft in and things went wrong. Front bearing was to small. It was size for size which wasn't going to fly. 

So with the aid of some CNC (completely not in control) machining I opened the bearing ID up to the correct size. 

All gravy.

I need to figure out how I'm going to make a crank angle sensor happen as well as cam too at some point. Unno how to do that tbh, do i even need both? Do you still need both to run sequential injection and ignition? Fuck i dunno these days. 

anywho,  I'm piecing the garbage back together. 

I built a retaining wall so we can back full it with dirt and make raised vegetable garden. 

Is 9.5m long and 400 high.  I buried the posts 400 deep and rammed the back fill into the holes around the posts with a sledge hammer. Fucking tell you what, the rammed earth round the post is like setting the bastard in concrete. 

Missing image - topsoil. Yet to come. 

the hive mind decided that I should use the squirters, so in they went. 

Then I put in the crank and torqued it all up. 

It still spins which is a bonus.

I also got all the pistons and rings assembled. 

Turns out when you buy expensive pistons made for a specific size bore the rings come with the right gaps. 

I checked every single one and they're all perfect. 

I had to do a few little jobs if the celicas but now I'm back into this. 

Ended up getting the crank ground just because. 

I've been measuring Mains and big ends to check oil clearances etc. Surprisingly enough when everything is new and crank is ground/ block is line bored then everything is in spec.

What comes as no surprise is that the China H beam rods are the thing with the widest variance and the closest to being out of spec.

And as is fitting for such an engine a toilet brush was the perfect tool for washing the bores. 

Had to do some rust repairs for wof.

Didn't realise how bad it had got,  both sills behind the doors needed work. 

Is a common rust area for celicas, side window dumps shit down the quarter and it's sort of double skinned at the bottom. 

Anywho,  drivers side needed a whole new inner and outer sill made and passenger just had two small holes so I welded them up. 

Side note,  I thought I had already been in to the sill in the past but it turns out it was all original.  So it had lasted 47 years which isn't to bad. 

I fucked up the clear on the drivers side and got some runs in it but you can't really see it. 

Also I did a pretty good job of flicking in the new colour over the top of the old.  She's pretty hard to fade metallics but this time I did alright.