Ptarmigan mods - 1995 FZJ80

[Fishy]

rotate it another 90º and it should drop right out.

Awesome...!

 

[treerootCO]

Done and done!

 

[treerootCO]

Anyone ever wonder what a 1FZFE, transmission, and transfer case weighs?

 

[rckhound]

Is that a Toyota fork lift I see. Yup! Love it.

 

[powderpig]

Mike do the head gasket before you drop the new engine in, cuts the time down by a bunch when it is out. Much easier to get to everything when you are not leaning over a fender.
Progress is always good.

 

[OilHammer]

You made an oil spot on someone's sweet shop floor! Good progress though, and I bet that fork was much quicker than a lift.

 

[treerootCO]

Port matched the exhaust on the 80. I was surprised how little the manifolds needed to match the head and gasket. Dropped them off to be ceramic coated inside and out.

 

[Rezarf]

Mike who did you use to do your coatings? I used a guy down in Denver that did an awesome job if you're looking. Keep it up, things are coming along nicely... I am a little disappointed that you ported without polishing!

 

[treerootCO]

The things you discover at the sandblaster! Good thing we caught this in the shop instead of out on the trail

Tig welded up by Figs

 

[treerootCO]

1600F (871C) Cerakote on the Land Cruiser's exhaust manifolds. Applied Plastics did an excellent job. Color is tungsten.

 

[treerootCO]

 

[PabloCruise]

Do those flexible sections like to be ceramic coated?

 

[rover67]

wow very nice. very very nice.

 

[treerootCO]

Gary has cool tools. Just under 700 if you were curious what a 1FZFE weighs. I bet it is right at 700 with all the accessories installed.

 

[treerootCO]

What do you do when you are waiting on parts for your engine swap? Cerakote

http://www.cerakotehightemp.com/resources/files/testing/C7300BlackVelvetTest.pdf

 

[AimCOTaco]

That's a great idea! Keep us posted but I'll bet it holds up really well.

 

[treerootCO]

Engine swap went well. Made it 1,500 miles to CruiserFest and back

 

[treerootCO]

Trying the 16361-65020 3.0 V6 fan on the 80. The 3FE fan was no good running about ten degrees hotter than stock.

 

[treerootCO]

The new engine had one issue though. The front main and oil pump cover seal let go on the way to Utah and sprayed about a quart every 100 miles or so. Not a job I care to tackle again but the gist of it is the crank bolt has to be removed at almost 600ft pounds and torqued to 304foot pounds! When you take off the harmonic dampener, the seven oil pump cover screws tend to break off. Putting them back on, there is no torque spec so most folks torque them just before the philips screw strips out. Using JDM bits, I torques the oil pump cover screws to 11.6 foot pounds and then, with Simpson's 6' torque wrench, torqued the crank bolt to about 320.

 

[treerootCO]

Upgraded the rear swaybar to a 30mm Whiteline and replaced all four link ends with OEM.