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So naturally, no one wants to actively ‘look for’ a wasp’s nest, it just gives the feeling of most definite danger ha, but I do need these foul vermin gone.. I lucked out and didn’t have to look too hard. Found out what all the buzz was about.. : 2 rubber cork plugs, a steel plate, and a large...

That was my plan; get those small fine tune gains after a couple hundred miles. Biggest hurdle currently is getting through the drive cycles for OBD2, readiness, and passing the emissions test. No lights or codes though currently, I pulled them this evening just to see the Diag. monitors and...

The FSM said set it in Service mode, with the pins jumpered, so I set it to 3 degrees with the connector jumpered. I will re-read to double check, also want to make sure it’s done in Neutral? Have to believe so being a manual truck would be in neutral for setting the timing as well. Thanks for...

Got it running last night and finally got it to temp. 200-202 degrees F or so on my electric gauge, stock gauge got right up to where it should usually be as well. Full temp. and I still had 20+ psi of oil pressure, good deal! Set the ignition timing to 3 degrees before TDC and it idles smooth...

Wow, Over 3 months later and I have yet to update.. Following my extremely overly ambitious post from April, I discovered first hand how hard 're-sealing' a 1FZ engine, in the chassis can be. I spent hours, bought tools, returned tools, forgot parts, bought more missing parts, you all know how...

This truck.. My goals. Super clean man, so clean is it hard to want to get it dirty?!

POR 15 is the best by far. A little more prep work, but the application is as simple as following their instructions. And rust/oxidation will never occur if prepped/applied correctly. So much so, that I even treat steel parts with it when they are new/not oxidized.

The more and more i explore this website, the more motivation I accumulate to get ole Hogarth back to driveable! Welp, This is the list to complete by Sunday mid-day, it’s currently Friday evening around 6:00 PM: 1. Tear down ‘lower front’ of engine; replace all oil pump seals, FMS, and timing...

Touche.. Though I am still knee-deep in my 80's neglected maintenance, these are the type of utilities I want to add to my 80 in the near future. Incredibly awesome!

Well I got this thing all welded out. Welds aren't the most attractive thing to look at (mainly that middle one), but they are functional without a doubt, going to do a little light grinding/sanding around the welds to clean up the tube, but other than that it is finished! For those wondering, I...

Finished the mock up, final part prep and weld-out are all that's left to finish it up: 4 weld beads to lay, I really only wanted to have 2 total, but alas; bending that last 'dog-leg' section to mate with the OE pipe was tricky. Cheers all! -Dustin

All my materials came in, gotta love on-time parcel service. To shed a bit of light on why I am making a new EGR pipe: I sourced a '94 complete 1FZ-FE long block with around 180k on it. It was pulled from its original 80, because of apparent 'bottom end noise', later defined as rod knock. The...

Some picture updates and a 'rough' model of the EGR re-route pipe. I have been busy, just not necessarily in the garage. As of today however, ALL my parts and/or materials have arrived, so I have no excuses now: 'Freeze plugs' I fabricated, a la Water-Jet machine. I made a handful of them...

All 304 or 316 S.S. - .500" O.D. tubing, .625" O.D. tubing, mating to the .700" O.D. OEM EGR pipe tubing. Compression style fitting, flareless. .375" Male NPT threads on the Compression fitting for hole in exhaust manifold

Little late getting back to this, but my machine shop turned the valve job around in 6 days! Needless to say I think they were anxious to get some experience on a 1FZ head. Proof: Could not be happier with how the head turned out. They only had to shave .006" off the deck surface to...

Well got some updates. I found a used engine out of a '94, ended up only paying $450 for it. 180-190k miles and it was pulled from its original truck for reportedly having 'knock'. It turned over by hand smoothly on all 6 cylinders, so I went ahead and bought it. Got it home and pulled the valve...

I have been researching this option as well. My deck surface could very well be 100%, even with the crack as is. One thing I have learned (mainly from the Aussie reads) is of people testing hardness of the head, looking for a rating of 100 or better (Brinell Hardness test). So, doing a hardness...

Wow everyone, thanks for the kind words! Paying less for this truck initially would have been a nice change, however, I still can't put a $-value on zero rust and all original sheet metal, so I will stick with that. There are a couple 180-200k mile used engines for sale here locally. Both of...