Jesse's Toyota Mark ii Grande gx61

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144 pieces reinstated to the head with nothing missing of left over

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I then spent saturday putting in the 24 buckets and shims. I had no idea of the order so just wacked them all in and checked clearances. Only had to swap 3 out for spares to get within specs. Repco had mechpro torque wrenches on special for $39.99 so the head was torqued down.

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Where I'm up to now. Just needing to purchase spark plugs and waterpump really, might do dizzy cap and rotor while I'm there as they are looking pretty manky. Really hoping to get this all together and back in the hole and running over the next 4 weeks

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Installed genuine idlers and cambelt and aftermarket waterpump (toyota discontinued)

Had aircon, power steer and alternator brackets tanked at engine builders along with the rear engine braces to bellhousing, intake braces and exhaust manifold and shields. 

 

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Had a clutch hard line made up as I didnt like the look of the braided stainless one. Finished assembling motor and gearbox and put them in the hole, half the wiring done, most of the front end reassembled.

 

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Put lower control arms back in with new ball joints and bushes and attached knuckles and castor arms 

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F series ma61/gx61 diff casing stripped and painted with new pinion and axle seals and bearings

Pinion bearings:

Koyo TRA0607RYR

Koyo TR0708-1 

Crush tube spacer:

41231-22010

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195/65/14 for the 7j up front 

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Heater hoses 17mm ID v8 falcon XD 302 Cleveland heater hose does both

CH1666C from Supercheap Auto 

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St191 caldina powersteering reservoir and bracket as 1gge are remote reservoir 

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Clutch slave cylinder and rubber line along with gearbox mount arrived from rock auto 

Waiting on pieces from various places to reassemble rear end hopefully ready to start up shortly.

The list gets smaller each day untill I remember other things then it grows again

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Diff all assembled again (professionals finished it off as it was well out of my depth)

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Camber modded f series subframe back from sandblast and powdercoating. Facelift gx61 unless they're factory twin can come with a smaller 6.7" t series diff. To upgrade you just need the crossmember and diff. The rest is interchangeable 

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Not having a good time. Probably should have sorted the subframe before shopping for tyres.

May reluctantly end up running 7 inch rear and 7.5 inch front to get through cert.

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Beat the inner guard lip with a hammer and trimmed the chrome edge to suit around where I folded the lip. Planning on a full re-spray post certification so things like this can be painted and undersealed then 

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Chrome sill and arch trims put back on

have managed to get the rear down to 250mm wheel hub to guard but untill I get to wheel alignment there's no telling if I'm within camber specs. 

Have ordered an airbox from a 1gge gx71 via yahoo. Doing some measuring on a friends car the intake pipe with temp sensor has the same pcd as my 1geu afm meaning I should be able to bolt it up to my stock airbox to keep things looking like the car came with the engine from the factory. 

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Fender mirror bases painted in factory 035 white 

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Driveline all back together with fluids, fender mirrors reassembled and installed, put the front sway bar back in and inner guards. Then tried to bleed brakes and realised what the tubes were for that came with new master cylinder which I threw out yesterday, called it a day. 

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Home made SST to hold crank pulley to torque nut