My 1987 celica (Iceland) LOTS of pictures

the rust hunt continued.
I wanted to take a look and see what was going on under the side skirts and
guess what, I found alot of rust. There was also rust surrounding the rear window washer noosle.
I promised myself that I would not fit the new rims until that rust would be gone.






I also changed the spark plugs and when I took the old ones out this is what it looked like


Then me and my brother decided to go all the way and see what the engine looked like on the inside.









My brother whith the engine and his daughter keeping a close eye on things.









looks like its pulling a wheelie


I cleaned the engine before we opened it up




few presents for the car


more pictures to come

 

Yeah it was kinda frustrating to find all that rust after all the polishing but I suspected it would be some rust there so I was prepared for it
plus the work space is pretty awesome and my brother is a master welder.

thanks. you´ll get more pics really soon

 

We took the engine apart and I think that was a good idea cause the engine was full of soot and dirt.
some of the valves were almost stuck cause of the soot, so we took it apart, cleaned it and changed all seals and gaskets.

I´ll let the pictures talk.






this car had literally no maintenance what so ever from previus owners.


new timing belt, tensioners and waterpump.

cleans up pretty well



The 5th gear did not hold when I was drivin the car so we opened the gearbox, changed the 5th gear and all the bearings in the gearbox





we also changed the wheel bearings





when we were finishing up we noticed that one of the wires for the engine computer had fallen out of the electric plug and there was no way to see were it was supposed to be


then it was good to work at the right place.

I had one of the mecanics at the work shop to go over the wireing diagram to make sure everything was allright.

I also put new rubber hoses ofer the inner steering links.


The airfilter was just hanging loose so we made a bracket to fasten it down


Ready and the engine started up in first try



at this time the only thing that was left was the damn rust so we couldn´t put that of any longer.
I will load the rest of the pictures later this week or this wekend.

 

It didn´t take that long, It was about a week from the time the engine was out until it was back in. we mostly worked in it at nights and I had to wait 2 days for the parts for the gearbox, I didn´t order the parts for the gearbox until we had opened it to see what needed to be replaced.

Nice thanks alot. It´s good to know about that cause it´s realy hard to find used parts for those cars here in Iceland.
do you have alot of parts for st162, other than engines?

 

I looked it over and you got alot nice stuff there.
but what I´m looking for is the moulding below the windshield. I wanted to order a new one but Toyota has stop manufacturing this item
and I looked for this on the internet and I found one store in USA that have this item in stock but they only ship to USA so I´m still searching for this.
as you see it looks bad and has gone worse since this picture was taken.

 

yes this is the one I need. mine has a big rust hole in it and alot of rust bubbles under the paint.

 

No I´ve never been to the netherlands . and yes it could be a problem to ship this without damage. I´m trying to find this here, there was alot of thease cars here once so there must be someone who has it here in Iceland, and I´m also thinking of having it specialy made here. but if everything fails I would be glad to pay the shipping fee, just need this part.

Thanks, I´ll take more photos next winter and post here.

If I find someone who´s selling it new and is willing to ship it to Iceland I dont care if it costs alot. I just dont like looking at my rusted panel.
and thanks for giving me the propper name fo it, I´m gonna try to search for it
(I used the name from the Toyota parts system. partnumber 75535-20160 descriptoin MOULDING,WINDSHIELD,LOWER)