Andrews 87 SX 3S-GE 400000km

My wiring plans have been put on hold and how!

Last week I had the interview and test and this week have started a pre-apprenticeship in Light Vehicle Mechanics. Put Uni on hold, it wasn't going well, to try something I really enjoy, so far so good!

Waiting to swoop on the White Lightening being wrecked that I saw last week, long term plan is 2 running road legal cars, hope to turn my old mate into a racer and have a nice white lightening day car.
All in good time

 

White Lightening

Just arrived at her new home

 

Steve it's the same old place but a new white lightening i picked up yesterday. now for work to begin! It has a near perfect body and needs an engine.

Matt cheers the lightening will end up a daily car and mine... We'll have a good time til retirement Maybe take it to the track later this year.

This week will be getting an engine stand and see if the engines rebuildable - has a bhg

 

White Lightening

Stig I will get photos for you very soon when i've washed the car!

I plan to take it apart and fix the body before I deal with driveline stuff. There isn't too much to do, and it'll inspire me to fix my car's body too


$850
Most of the car is in decent to great shape - possible front end damage - front of radiator support is a bit bent. Nothing major i hope.
Spare front spoiler with original radiator and gearbox under trays
Perfect black steering wheel
Working cup holders
5 newish tyres
etc

Engine - many options - beams, 2nd gen 3sgte, rebuild this 3sge for now... I'm not in a hurry so i'll keep saving and reading...

Gearbox - I have a spare s54 just needs a clean up and appropriate clutch, shafts for whatever engine.

 

87 Wheel Alignment

I had an alignment today, the car had been pulling left and scrubbing the front right wheel when turning left hard.

I'm going for a proper drive later today but so far it feels better but still drifts left.

They made the rear toe nearly neutral, and the front toe neutral.

They tell me I need to correct the castor on the front left wheel, with an offset bush, $80 for the pair.

I don't mind the price but I only need the back left control arm bush and have 1 year old polys in there now.

Any advice is very welcome



Cheers
Andrew

 

Looking at Nolothane and Super Pro for Castor correcting bushes

Nolothane adds +0.5 deg castor, only need one side (passenger/left)
But would this be enough?
http://www.nolathane.com.au/product_detail.php?part_number=45382

Super Pro have a few choices - but don't say the amount of change
SPF1364K PS decreased DS standard
SPF1365K PS increased DS decreased

Even better
Toyhead Auto
Front Control Arm Caster Adjusting Kit (#342) adds plus 1.0 degrees. $57.61

Would adjustable camber tops be useful for castor? At some point i'll be getting new ones for either car and might as well get adjustable for not much more money, last i checked

Cheers
Andrew

 

Hi thanks for the good replies, I'm keen to get it back to spec just no money at the moment, it handles fine but not perfect as I hoped after alignment.
I'm wondering what changes I really should make considering it's lowered about 1.5 in.
I have 6 spare good tyres so no worries for the moment

 

keeping an engine alive. hopefully

So I'm finally taking everyones good advice and getting my engine along til I can rebuild it.
I took off the top timing cover to have a look.

The belt is dry - i'm losing oil so that's good it's not seals
- It's the compression in cyl 2, i did wet and dry tests
dry wet
1 190 210
2 160 195
3 190 210
4 195 215

It's been whirring from the front for a while now... a long while.

When the engine is running, the intake cam gear wobbles a fair bit.
When the engine is off, it has no play. The bolt is too tight for a big spanner.

If I can get the tension off the belt, It will help me find out.

I loosened the tensioner bolt, and tried to move it to the left, extending the spring. I'm pretty sure that's the right direction to loosen it. It won't move either direction, but i couldn't get the engine mount off to get more space. I'll do it again with a frame/hoist thing. Or a flat surface. Both would be nice

See what you thinks

Cheers





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Thanks man that sounds about right. Cheers for the how-to, I wasn't sure what exactly held the mount to the block.
I don't have a crane but might be able to use a frame from work to hold the engine up, or a jack and wood...
I once used a forklift to get a engine out of a car, i miss it.

If I need to change the cam gear, does it need locktite or what? What's the best way to stop the cam moving when i tighten the bolt?

I might have one on the spare head.. I'll look tomorrow. Or i need to find one

Hopefully it's not that bad :fingersx

 

408000km service

I put the car on the hoist at work and did some good stuff today.
Need an alignment and i guess i'll go for a new castor bush, but it wanders a lot less than it did

Oil and filter - free filter good skills
Ball joints - both were torn and 1 seized
Tie rod ends - one torn
Rack boots - both torn
Valve cover gaskets - intake side leaking a bit
Lifted the front of the engine/gearbox up off the crossmember - doesn't clunk on takeoff. Cheap fix!
Cleaned and pressure washed everything about 20 times to find the oil leaks later this week
cyl 1 and 2 Intake lobes and cyl 3 exhaust lobes look cleaner than the rest, maybe they're not getting enough oil?











missing crossmember bolt


More pics here
http://s402.beta.photobucket.com/user/trelmcgee/library/408000km hoist action

Needs
Intake cam gear - spare on the white lightening
crossmember bushings
crossmember bolt - spare on white lightening but need a replacement
change back from atf to 80w90
rust kill
Big adventure driving trip