Popular Post be4ver Posted June 6, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted June 6, 2015 Brain: Hey get another project Me: Nah got 3 other cars to waste time and money on. Brain: go on, its a wagon. Me: naaaah... Brain: ahhhhh go oooonnn. Me: ok Here it is, a somewhat neglected GX60 wagon with a very sad, oil leaking 1G-EU power house The poor 1G is hemorrhaging oils from every oriface at an alarming rate. Thankfully the car came with a spare engine. So this lucky 1G will be receiving new oil seals, gaskets and water pump etc. + = Why the fuck am i even trying to make this lump look good?? Anyway that is it for now. I will leave you with this artists impression of the wagons near future. Discuss: //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/48689-be4vers-gx60-wagon-discussion/ 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
be4ver Posted June 9, 2015 Author Share Posted June 9, 2015 Reassembled and ready to go in Took the old engine out... There is always one bolt/nut that will essentially double the removal time! If you have never used a hot water-blaster i very much recommend using one if you have a greasy engine bay with 30+ years of shit crusted to it. Cuts through it like butter! Also im after a decent rust free bonnet and a drivers tail light if anyone has anything?? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
be4ver Posted June 15, 2015 Author Share Posted June 15, 2015 So this last week has been pretty average in regards to this whole thing. The engine went back together and in the hole all very smoothly Time came to fire it up... it started first pop! It was going good all bar a small exhaust leak. So put some water in it and 30 seconds later it died, Tried to restart it and it was farting around and not idling. This is the point in which i notice the fuel light is on..... hmm thats wierd i emptied my 20L fuel container into it just the other day. Ok thats fine, whatever, i'll put some more petrol in it then. Cue me poring 5 litres of fuel into the tank which promptly gushes straight onto the ground under the car! WTF Upon closer inspection i see some shit cunt has removed the bung for me from the fuel tank. I luckily found the bung back where the car had been parked. Fuckers! So someone ass hat has jumped a 7 foot fence to make off with my 20L + 10 of half stale petrol! Which they have emptied out using an old icecream container which they kindly left behind. At this point i give up and flush the water from the engine and push the car back to its park. Next day i filled my 20L container again with petrol went to work and poured half of it in. Turned key and it fired up and idled perfectly! Yuss! so i quickly drove it into the workshop and put it on the hoist and sorted the exhaust leak out. with that sussed i filled it back up with water and started it up. AAAAAAnnnnnnnd its running like shit again. WTF. Maybe i didn't put enough petrol in it? so i put the rest of my container in it. Still running like shit. Dies. Won't start. Finally got it going and it barely runs, i give it heaps of throttle and thats when i see it. Bubbles. Bubbles coming out of the fucking radiator!! Fuck sake! Oil under the filler cap is milky as fuck. Shit. But on the plus side, i found the spare key while it was on the hoist! So at this point i see myself having 3 options; 1 - persevere with this shit heap of a motor and replace the head gasket. (I've never done a head gasket before) 2 - Put the new water pump and cambelt on the original 1g and get new oil seals for it. and cross fingers its ok (this engine has done 280thou kms) 3 - Find another 1g-ewww and hope for the best. 4 - Buy my work mates crashed JZX 110 and put engine and transmission from that into GX60 (low kms and very reliable but lots of fab work needed and cert etc) PS - my budget is not very high. please help //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/48689-be4vers-gx60-wagon-discussion/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
be4ver Posted September 21, 2015 Author Share Posted September 21, 2015 *******WARNING******* This post contains coarse language Despite all consuming thoughts I've been having to burn this shit heap thing to the ground I've been making some progress. The last two months have had thier up n downs with this. Not long after my last post i decided to pull the pin on this 1g and bought another low kms one off a member and another gc brought it up here from duniden. CBF touching it / wasting time / spending more money on another 1g i decided to just leave it and chuck it straight in as is. In it goes. now is about the time i realise there are a few subtle differences between the 1ge and 1geu. like this; and this; and some plugs and the oxygen sensors etc also i discover this. Whatever, thats fine :/ Now with that shit all sorted and everything plumbed up etc ..... its time to fire it up again right? wrong. Some scumy fuck has stolen my petrol. Again!!! Whatever, got more petrol the next day and fire it up. It ran good for a minute or so then starts missing really bad and wont idle, i can hold about 5k revs on it and it sounds ok. So i take it around the block to blow it out and it dies and wont start again After looking around for a problem i discover the back of the oil cap has gone all milky looking. WTF No. Not this shit again. The curse of the 1g Threw my toys, pack shit up and give up for the day. Under closer inspection the oil seems to smell a lot like petrol. Hmmm?? As it turns out, lots of fuel in your oil makes it look a lot like it does when there is water in it! who knew..... not me. So why the hell is it putting so dam much fuel into the engine??? I then discover the fuel return line is completely blocked and the pressure is getting so great that there is fuel squirting out past the hose clamps on the rubber lines. AH HA, that will be the cause of the issue! NOPE! did not fix the problem. Different oxygen sensors? nope The coils are different. is it the coils? nah! I checked the resistance of the 1ge injectors and they are slightly different to the other 1geu ones. So i changed them over aaaaaand it made no difference. God dam it! What else? a bung temp sensor? swapped and tested all the temp sensors. Not that! Removed and checked the cold start injector. That is fine. That only leaves two things, the ECU or the airflow meter. Now i have no way of testing either of these so i give up for a couple weeks. Which brings us to today. I took the AFM off to take and compare to my 1ggeu one and maybe try that in there. That's when i realize that the fucking flap inside it is stuck at about 3/4 of the way open! Well that will sure as hell cause a shit load of fuel to be injected unnecessarily won't it!! Nasty Its now that i realize there was possibly not much wrong with the last engine i just took out, and the fact that the compression tested good amplifies the fact that it was just doing the same dam thing this has been doing. Anyway! i put the afm back together after I regreased the rusty bearing and gave it a good clean up. Start it up and WOOOOOOO success!! it idles and revs smoothly. Finally! So i take it for a hoon around the block and it dies. Out of fuel. Who the fuck is stealing my petrol!! I feel actually feel sorry for people who are scummy enough to have to steal peoples fuel. The price of meth must be going up or something. So with all that behind me i can now make some dam progress! 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post be4ver Posted June 27, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted June 27, 2016 i got a warrant!!!! its taken a damn while but Its been a long time between updates, reason being nothing much has happened while i've been waiting for my bonnet to be repaired. All that was needed for the wof was brake pads and bonnet rust fixed. After having this sit for so long with no bonnet (months) while it was getting fixed several average things happened to this seemingly cursed wag 1 - one day after moving around in my driveway the water pump decided its had enough of life and split its seal and subsequently drops half the water on the ground. Lame. Luckily i kept the new one that was on the other 1geu i replaced with this engine. 2 - Apparently spark plug threads aren't water tight when rain water sits on them for extended periods of time..... must have been pretty close to fucking itself because when i tried to start it one day it locked up solid! oops! with that shit all sorted it was time to put my sexy rust free bonnet on and get a warrant. Then upon returning home from said warrant the engine started loosing a substantial amount of power which was strange after it ran so well untill then. Had normal power for about 3-4 seconds after i buried the accelerator and then died down to almost nothing until i bcaked the throttle to about 1/4 . I decided this was probably another fuel blockage .... boy was i right Might be time to clean the tank out! And that's where I'm at right now. Must be time to lower it finally 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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