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  1. All back together! Five litres of tesco petrol. Optimistic turn of the key and..... Crank, crank, crank. I got the tiniest of splutters then nowt. Doesn't fire on easy start, then I noticed multiple petrol leaks from the carb. Time to order that rebuild kit then!
  2. A little bit of faffing this weekend. Intake Manifold now on, gaskets made and carb subjected to liberal amounts of cleaner. I thought I'd get lucky and have the model corolla with a drain plug in the fuel tank, but after five minutes on the cold floor i was sadly disappointed. After a memorable siphoning tasting event with vegetable oil and diesel during my student days i decided it was time for a Plan B ...12 litres of six year old lucozade removed using a screwfix bulb pump, through the sender unit mounting. Brilliant little bit of kit. I inherited some batteries with the car but they both seem dead even after being left to charge overnight so i borrowed one off another car and checked the electrics. All OK other than an indicator dash bulb. Even the cassette player works and gives out comfortingly bad quality sound from the 35 year old speakers.
  3. I bloody love this. Especially the fact that it has the 4Y in it. Proper survivor. If you do go down the Chinese route please make sure you chuck the old engine engine in the back, you know, just in case.
  4. Some more progress, little 15 min jobs but they all add up. Looking like a real car again. Connected the loom back up, fitted some interior panels, put the radiator back, sealed the rocker cover and filled up engine and gearbox, fitted HT leads and torqued a few bits up with my shiny high spec amazon torque wrench. My clutch master cylinder arrived after two weeks only to find even after supplying all the details and cross referencing that it was a LHD one. I took a punt on one for the later model for £30 as the correct one is 80 quid. Luckily, it fits, just needed to change the rod over so well happy with that. The old one was well past it and full of sludge. Working clutch! Started cleaning the intake manifold. I need to fix the vacuum valve with some tubing as the plastic has snapped and make up some new gaskets. Also I'm not sure what to do with the carb. Thinking of *carefully* applying carb cleaner everywhere and putting compressed air through. Someone has also helpfully mangled one of the adjustment screws. Amazingly, you can buy rebuild kits from the phillipines for £30 delivered so that's currently my Plan B.
  5. Thanks to all your replies! Suffice to say it seems after the big hammery waste of time approach, I took the long, messy washing machine unfriendly route, with extra fire. Next time, I will buy that tool....
  6. Out for the weekly food shop. Looked very clean.
  7. I didn't know this thread existed until after I'd ordered some! Placed the order last Saturday for 10w40, gear oil and coolant with carousel. After nothing happening all week, the tracking updated suddenly to say it's in the local depot. I was expecting the worst after reading this thread and seeing their feedback. Hopefully it'll turn up Monday. Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk
  8. That's interesting, I didn't know that was a thing, presumably the auto choke wasn't the finest? Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk
  9. Where were we? Ah yes, it was all going swimmingly. Too well in fact. After poking around the pile of parts I noticed one that looked very 'engine mounty'. Ah, that'll be the one under the engine I've just put in then. That should be easy but the flywheel cover had been bent back and had a lot of springiness. I got it on there with various clamps and by relifting the engine on one side after a few evenings of trying. On that theme i then discovered a missing engine mount at the front. Mounts are available, trying to find the bracket to attach it to a bit harder. I thought i could graft one from my stash of celica parts but no deal. I then took a punt and after scatter gunning breakers got both parts from a 97 model. Bracket OK, mount different fitment. More Autodoc (but fitted in 10 min) Starter motor? Not present. Got one from a starlet turbo. Clutch slave cylinder. Bled nothing. Took the boot off to find fluid and rust. New one fitted, still no joy. New master now on the way. Courtesy of Ebay and JANPAY20. Then the driveshafts. I'd ruined one of the threads trying to get it out the hub, so I just ordered a NOS cv joint for £notalot. Only to find that they weren't intended to be replaceable. After hitting it with various hammers i went via an angle grinder and made a horrible mess, plus with the added drama of a brake cleaner/wire wool bench fire. Then just to rub it in I had to pay six quid each for some retaining clips from Toyota. Pic of the aftermath attached. Still, in a fit of optimism, I've just ordered oils and coolant and some gasket material. Plus I bought some wheels. However, the carburettor is still sitting on my bench staring at me. I don't understand it, and it probably doesn't understand me either. Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk
  10. Sadly not the first time for me either. Even though I'd vowed back then never to repeat it. Any ideas on how to get the smell of gearbox oil out the bench/concrete floor/wooden dolly/bin/clothes/pallet truck/tools/vice/air welcomed! Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk
  11. Christmas Corolla update. Optimistically, I'd thought I could mate the engine to the gearbox instead of doing things traditionally. This was brought on due to the fact I'd shoved another old shonky Toyota to the side of this one and didn't have much room. As you can expect, successful fitment didn't happen. Even with help. So, after I'd gotten over myself I disconnected everything, ruined a track rod end, dropped the box and spent an inordinate amount of time releasing stuck driveshafts. I then spent more time cleaning up gearbox oil from the floor than I did fitting it as I mistakenly assumed it was empty but nevermind. Bringing me to now... Twas the night before Christmas.. and the wife had taken the kids to the panto. I strapped it all up and it's now back in, awaiting fitment of the smorgasbord of parts and random bolts. Next step to start the meccano show and fit new gearbox seals and the driveshafts. Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk
  12. Right! All assembled with new belt, tensioner,, pump, thermostat etc. Need to fit the pulley then unbolt from the engine stand and fit the clutch then it's ready to go back in. Also cleaned up the engine bay.
  13. Well, most of the past couple of weeks has been spent with a toothbrush and degreaser wiping off 35 years of grime. Pretty grotty. Plus, brushing up the rocker cover and giving it a bit of a spruce up. Got my '12V' sticker ready and waiting to go on. And my clutch arrived in correct period packaging. Next step is to wait on a couple of replacement hoses and then reassemble water pump, thermostat etc. Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk
  14. I did this, plus some more scotchbrite rubbing, plus a dab of oven cleaner. Then I went to town and blew the whole thing out with compressed air. Several times. I also cut a groove in a head bolt to clean out the threads. Then finished up with lint free cloths on a stick. Before realising that I was probably into the law of diminishing returns and I had an aura of carb cleaner about me. In other news after trying to compress the valve springs with a set of mulgrips like they do on YouTube, I quickly realised that was going to end badly so ordered a cheap compressor from amazon and had that done on a lunch break. Head now on, new bolts in and I'll bust out the aldi torque wrench middle aisle special later to finish up. I'll then move onto the repainting the rocker cover and cleaning up the grime off the engine block. Sent from my SM-A145R using Tapatalk
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