Well the time has finally come for me to retire my MR2 from daily service. For the last 7 1/2 years it has been the most fun daily driver that I have ever owned. I have even used it for the last few years to tow my aluminum boat around. In October it blew the head gasket and forced me to buy another vehicle. I got lucky and found an 83 Toyota 2wd pickup with only 155,000K on it. I also bought another Mr2, an 85, that had the engine rebuilt about 60-80,000K ago, but has a nasty noise coming from the trans. The plan is to take all the good parts from the 85 and make the 87 like new again. At the moment I have already removed the engine and trans from both cars, here are some pics.
Taking engine/trans out of car, no ploblem! Putting pictures of such car in forum, problem! So I have the pictures up on flickr, now how do i get the pictures to show up on this forum? Ideally i would like to have the picture in the forum instead of having the link to the picture. Also how do I make a picture of my car as my avatar?
[ img ]between these tags put the link to the picture[/img]
such as [ img ]http://www.somewebpage.com/mypicture.jpg[/img]
just remove the spaces I put in the first img tag.
For the avatar, click on the User Control Panel at the top of the forums, then go to the profile tab and click avatar from the side. You can then either upload from your computer or link from a file that is already hosted on the net.
the [img.]picture.jpg[/img.] tags require the direct link to the picture itself. Not sure if that made sense. More pics! Nice project you got yourself there, as well as the work space.
Well i just spent a good chunk of time updating the progess on this project and typing the story to go along with the new pics, and then when i went to submit the update it wanted me to relog in, and everything was lost! I thought that, that had been fixed on this site . If you go to the link to the album you can see the pics. I'll repost the story to go along with them when i get more time!
Well, it's been way longer than I anticipated, but i wouln't of been happy with doing a halfa** job! The donor motor that had been "rebuilt" a mere 50K kms ago needed to be re-sealed and some other gaskets replaced instead of being reused. Unfortunately they forgot to install the rubber grommets under the acorn nuts that holds the valve cover on, and didn't bother to replace the shaft seal on the distributor so there was a good amount of oil everywhere. I also noticed that they had mixed up some of the bolts that hold on the oil pan, timing cover backing plate, and spark plug valley cover, not to mention that they used generic bolts instead of new studs and nuts on the oil pump pick-up. The clearances on all the main and rod bearings were measured and within spec of a newer engine. I torqued every bolt on this engine that has a spec for peace of mind. I also cleaned the engine bay while the engine/trans was removed, replaced the axle seals and shift bushings at the trans end. All I need to finish is the exhaust and then I can tune it up and take it out to drive. I've got the next two days off work so I am hoping that I can get it together for thursdays meet at A&W, but i don't want to get my hopes up!