My wife told me that she had never seen me any dirtier than what she saw this evening when I came out of the garage.
I've never felt dirtier myself.
Seemed like every possible automotive fluid that you could pour or have drip or spill on yourself did all of that today.
I removed the engine,..while removing the oil pump, it slipped and landed in the drain pan under it. It makes this giant sploosh of oil that coats the leg of my pants, soaks my shoe, and coats the underside of the car...which continued to drip on me after I cleaned it all up. Trans fluid, antifreeze, brake fluid, I got exposed to all of that today...
But I did get the engine, and trans out.
At noon I get the call, head dude is done with the 2 Jz head...when I go to pick it up, I discover that he has " surfaced " the head with a belt sander...
Why are there still yea-hoos in business?
Who knows what the problem is with the finish a belt sander leaves when it comes to using a MLS type gasket?
I do.
I tell the guy that I need him to redo the head to give me a semi-mirror finish on the head deck, and that the finish that he gave me will cause me problems with my head gasket seal.
" Never been a problem for me before." Dude says..."Well maybe none of your heathen customers from the past ever ran a MLS gasket, and 20 pounds of boost before" I want to tell him.. But I don't. I just need it fixed.
In the end he can't fix it, the belt sander is all this guy has.
I have to take it to a different shop..it takes 4 passes at .0025 each time to get the head smooth.....010 total, and another 40 bucks.
When I get home it's 2:30, and I wanted to get started on the adapter plate for the transmission...I figure I've got about 3 hours left before the wife ends my day for me...so I start cutting and welding..
I get the plate roughed for the 4r,.....I get the plate roughed for the 2j...
But by then it's 5, and I've gotten the call...I have to stop..
I have little to show for my day off.
But..what little there is...have at it.
What once was,..is no more.
I'll bet it sits here till the end of days.....
The beginnings of the adapter plate that'll let me marry the 2j to the 4 r...I'm using the A340 trans as a template for the back of the 2j.
The two of them together,....The picture doesn't show it, but the 4 r is significantly larger than the stock yoda trans..
And look whose back,...sporting a very shiny bottom...