Well,..nothing to show.
I did get the trans figured out. All good stuff.
For whatever reason I must've went brain dead thinking the converter was gonna be anywhere near the flex plate with a 3/4" spacer bolted onto the transmission side of the flex plate. Even if I bury the converter pilot all the way into that spacer, the feet are still an inch away. And I cannot bury the pilot all the way in. The reason it's called a flex plate instead of a flywheel, is that the converter moves in and out on the input shaft as it is accelerating, or decelerating. I need to allow for some movement, so I'm gonna back it out of the adapter 1/4" to keep it from bottoming out. That means these pedestals are 1.125" tall.
I do not have to cut off the converter feet, I do not have to weld on the converter...and...I'm able to tie each pedestal together so that they'll end up as one piece. How freakin perfect is that?
The garage was a disaster, I couldn't find nothing, so I spent the first few hours organizing stuff. Then, knowing I was gonna be messing around with the engine, I put the pan on for good. In order to do that, I had to finish the pickup screen, and bolt that stuff al back in. I put the pan on, and then decided to install the oil pump.
Wrong order. You cannot install the pump like a SBF timing cover it seems, there's a portion of the pump that hangs down, that will not allow that. So I had to drop the front half of the pan so I could install the pump.
Once that was done, everything got bolted tight.
Remember that I found alternative o rings to the Toyota ones?....they didn't fit. I ended up reusing the old ones, augmented by a judicious aplication of the right stuff. I hope to hell everything seals up.
So no pics...but I'm on the path forward.
I did get the trans figured out. All good stuff.
For whatever reason I must've went brain dead thinking the converter was gonna be anywhere near the flex plate with a 3/4" spacer bolted onto the transmission side of the flex plate. Even if I bury the converter pilot all the way into that spacer, the feet are still an inch away. And I cannot bury the pilot all the way in. The reason it's called a flex plate instead of a flywheel, is that the converter moves in and out on the input shaft as it is accelerating, or decelerating. I need to allow for some movement, so I'm gonna back it out of the adapter 1/4" to keep it from bottoming out. That means these pedestals are 1.125" tall.
I do not have to cut off the converter feet, I do not have to weld on the converter...and...I'm able to tie each pedestal together so that they'll end up as one piece. How freakin perfect is that?
The garage was a disaster, I couldn't find nothing, so I spent the first few hours organizing stuff. Then, knowing I was gonna be messing around with the engine, I put the pan on for good. In order to do that, I had to finish the pickup screen, and bolt that stuff al back in. I put the pan on, and then decided to install the oil pump.
Wrong order. You cannot install the pump like a SBF timing cover it seems, there's a portion of the pump that hangs down, that will not allow that. So I had to drop the front half of the pan so I could install the pump.
Once that was done, everything got bolted tight.
Remember that I found alternative o rings to the Toyota ones?....they didn't fit. I ended up reusing the old ones, augmented by a judicious aplication of the right stuff. I hope to hell everything seals up.
So no pics...but I'm on the path forward.