6/26/13
Picked up 5 P-type wheels, four need elbow grease, all need tires.
Picked up 5 P-type wheels, four need elbow grease, all need tires.
I got the head off and apart today. Man this thing is different from anything I've worked on so far. Each cam is held in it's own cam tower, a separate piece from the head. This thing also uses rocker arms and hydraulic lifters which is not something I've ever messed with. Also, my valve spring tool thing I used on the 7M is too small for this motor, so I am ordering a different kind of spring compressor the guys on CelicaSupra use from Amazon:
Also, I'm going to pull all the lifters and make sure they're all good and clean them out using this process:
Originally Posted by Suprabee
Howdy, during my recent project having a full valve job done, I serviced
my lash adjusters. Here's my pictorial of the process for those of you
new to our lash adjusters.
After removing them from the head, which can be difficult sometimes. Generally they can be pulled by hand using some twisting action to free them from the head. If you have to use a hand tool to grab them wrap with cloth to keep from damaging the adjuster head.
Summary Process: The adjuster piston is freed up and allowed to move at its normal operating distance by loosening and removing years of old oil sludge by repeated steps of flushing with cleaner and compressing in a vice.
You should be able to compress the adjuster by hand by the amount shown below. Note: photo is of a cleaned adjuster. All of my adjusters were froze and would not initially compress by hand. Also, my adjuster have 140k miles on them and have seen very regular oil changes, so odds are most, if not all, of your adjuster will also be stuck and not compress properly.
After removing them from the head, which can be difficult sometimes. Generally they can be pulled by hand using some twisting action to free them from the head. If you have to use a hand tool to grab them wrap with cloth to keep from damaging the adjuster head.
Summary Process: The adjuster piston is freed up and allowed to move at its normal operating distance by loosening and removing years of old oil sludge by repeated steps of flushing with cleaner and compressing in a vice.
You should be able to compress the adjuster by hand by the amount shown below. Note: photo is of a cleaned adjuster. All of my adjusters were froze and would not initially compress by hand. Also, my adjuster have 140k miles on them and have seen very regular oil changes, so odds are most, if not all, of your adjuster will also be stuck and not compress properly.
Step 1) I used brake cleaner, but carb cleaner will work fine
too. Hold the adjuster away from you and spray into the side hole as
shown below for a second or two allowing cleaner into the cylinder and
make it ready for the next step.
here's what came out:
Step 2) compress adjuster using vice. Note: on this first
compression step, it may be very difficult to compress the sucker, but
don't worry, you won't crush it. Compression I found on this first step
was usually only a couple millimeters.
Step 3) Spray again with cleaner as in Step 1
Step 4) Compress again in vice. It should be easier to compress
at this point, and basically you keep repeating the flushing and
compressing until no more black shit comes out and you can compress the
adjuster its full distance. My adjuster took 4 steps to complete the
cleaning/freeing up process:
Another pic showing the range of adjuster movement:
If you have trouble pinching then adjuster with your fingers try it this
way. When fully cleaned and freed up, the adjuster should "bottom out"
with not much force
Step 5) Ready to bleed the adjuster. Use a light viscosity oil. I
used 5w-30. Submerse adjuster completely in oil. Cut a piece of a
clothes hanger, or small Allen wrench, or something similar to fit into
the hole. Compress the ball and spring in the bottom of the adjuster.
Feel around for the ball and press down and up repeatedly to allow oil
into the chamber below the metal ball/spring. Air will bubble out of the
top. Do this until no more air comes out.
Also, found here:
http://www.cygnusx1.net/Supra/Librar...aspx?S=EM&P=32
Lash adjuster is ready to be installed back in head in the same location
it was removed from...And I always match up the hole on the side of the
adjuster(that you sprayed cleaner into) with the oil feed hole on the
side wall of the head. Not sure if this matters that much, but I do it
anyway.
Rick
Later 7/2/13
The lifters are REALLY hard to get out of the head. And I broke one. No idea how that's coming out of there. When I got the others out, they all came out in two pieces. The inner piece with the ball on top came out, then I would have to get the outer housing out of the head, which made cleaning them out very easy. Now I just gotta get one new one and pray that the machine shop can get the remains of the broken one out of the head.
The lifters are REALLY hard to get out of the head. And I broke one. No idea how that's coming out of there. When I got the others out, they all came out in two pieces. The inner piece with the ball on top came out, then I would have to get the outer housing out of the head, which made cleaning them out very easy. Now I just gotta get one new one and pray that the machine shop can get the remains of the broken one out of the head.
Later-er 7/2/13
After doing some searching, apparently having the lifters come apart is bad. Also, RockAuto has SealedPower lifters on massive sale ($10 instead of $60) so I'm just replacing all of them anyway. Also in that order are spark plugs, plug wires (the ones that came off are wicked old and the ends are pulling off), and dizzy cap/rotor.
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