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RIP Dean Baranski 9/19/2023
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fyffer
Rising Sun Member
A club is a Club because of it's unity and special interest, in most cases. What I am reading about it, is how I am feeling in this regards.
NEVER MET BUT HOPE TO DO, IN THE LAND ABOVE.
FJCDan
Rising Sun Member
RIP Dean, I was glad to get to know him a little, he was a great person and member of this club. I will drive mini truck in honor of Dean.
MDH33
Hard Core 4+
^^^ yes
Crying right now, won't lie. You will be missed dude. 😢
The world would be a better place if we could all be as thoughtful, kind, generous and cool as Dean.
Peace Dean! I`m going to go fix something on one of my rusty Toyotas now.
And will think of you when I do in the future, and when I have the chance to help others like you have.
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Cheeseman
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Gonna miss that tall, skinny, smilin' face. Loved a great beer, loved great people, had patience for the rest, loved mastering Toyotas. I remember one of the first camping's I was with him. He was shivering pretty good in the cold in the morning. He had no nevermind and just said his body was warming up. Only he has that kind of thinking. His club Christmas parties were really fun.
JadeRunner
Rising Sun Member
So sorry to hear Dean passed away. I was fortunate enough to see him in his appt. a few weeks ago. He was so genuine and appreciative of everything we were doing for him. He was telling me about his truck repairs and was happy to get on his (new to him) laptop and get logged back into the RS Forum and see what's going on. He will be missed.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
Awesome! Details please.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
A U-Haul car hauler was rented and a very generous benefactor gave use of an F250 diesel to tow. Got it into the driveway with minimal drama using the Tacoma's winch and some burly dudes.
Did some cleanup under the hood and generally (lube the touch points, door and hood releases, you know just regular stuff), drained the crankcase, put clean oil in, turned it over by hand for about 5 minutes, drained that, filled with new oil and filter, checked cooling system pressure again and topped it with 50/50 red, pulled plugs, did compression check, new plugs, ran it for a few minutes, drained oil, new filter, new oil, ran it again for about 10 minutes, took video.
Compression before attempt at running was low and uneven but did not indicate complete HG failure. The one very low one (#2 at 115 psi) did not respond to a squirt of oil so there's still the likelihood the HG or head is in bad shape. He did say he overheated it. :-( But cylinders on either side were at FSM minimum (#1 at 140 and #3 at 145) so it's not cylinder-to-cylinder failure yet. The #4 was also a little low but at 125 psi. I thought the risk was acceptable to try and get it warm and circulate oil.
The old fluid that came out of the crankcase was not in good shape so I'm cautiously nervous about the bottom end. I hope the oil just sludged sitting with coolant in the crankcase for as long as it did.
But the old gal is back amongst the running and if I didn't know better it would be real tough to think anything was suspect from 10 feet away. It made a lot of smoke but started right up and cleaned up after just a couple of minutes of idling. It was white smoke so that also tends to suggest HG is weeping.
The idle is smooth and now the exhaust is reasonably clear. Slight tint the second run once the temp gage came up off low and idle dropped. But it hasn't been driven in anger in a while so it's bound to just want to be driven.
Next steps TBD until after holidays but I'm reservedly optimistic about a test drive soon. May do another compression check this week if time allows. The white Tacoma needs an oil change though and I need to take advantage of good weather for that, too.
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DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
It's an odd feeling. Pretty sure he was looking over my shoulder and winced with me when finally decided I'd done about everything I could and just go for it.
DaveInDenver
Rising Sun Ham Guru
He and I talked about it over the summer, I think at least 6 months, maybe a year. I wasn't clear about some of the order. I think it overheated and he made a brain fog mistake putting coolant into the oil fill.
I don't know for sure if he tried to run it after that but it does seem like the oil was burnt. So my thinking was that since it turned over by hand that with a few oil changes if the bottom end was ruined and would need a complete rebuild I wasn't likely to make it much worse with a few minutes of idling, exercising the rings, pushing fresh oil through the block.
I figured based on what I was seeing that I had to make a choice to either tear it all apart and put eyeballs on the inside or just trust that it's a Toyota. In any case it wasn't getting any better sitting and waiting any longer.
It's running pretty OK and other than a hollow not-really-mechanical sound that I just don't know (I locate to around the carb or air cleaner and may just be that) it really doesn't sound like the block or head need anything more than a valve lash adjustment.
Another compression test, idle up to operating temp and oil change before I try anything more.
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rover67
Rising Sun Member
Dave that thing sounds like it's runnign great!!!!! I say RUN IT
thats so cool it lives on with you. Dean would be so stoked.
thats so cool it lives on with you. Dean would be so stoked.
LARGEONE
Rising Sun Member
Very cool, Dave! Glad to see his mini resurrected. Hopefully we'll get some updates on saving the 40 as well 
Awesome Dave! Drive it around local and see how she does.... If it starts using coolant you'll know pretty quick