I took the head to a machine shop that has been in this city for as long as I’ve been here back in........October?
Back in October if you’ll remember...the guy doing the head, “surfaced“ my head with a belt sander. I had to take it to a machine shop after that fix his phck up. At the same time, the guy at the head shop tells me that he “clearanced” the valves, and basically saved me hours checking and setting the valve clearances using the standard method of checking them after the cams were installed, and replacing shims as required to get the proper clearance.
Well given that he was such a phck up, I decided to check him today.
Every valve is too loose....And now my choices to fix this are minimal.
1..I keep the cams in place, and use a goofy ass tool to compress the spring, and another goofy ass tool to hold the spring down enough so that I can remove the lash cap. I don’t have the tool.
2. I remove the balancer, now torqued in to 270 lbs again, so that I can remove the timing belt, so that I can remove the cams, and remove every single lash cap, so that each one can be measured to determine what can be swapped around to other valves if possible to minimize the expense of doing it right. Then, once I know what lash caps have to be purchased, and what thicknesse,..I can go about the process of sourcing however many of the 24 valves that I cannot get to come into line.
At about 10.00 each.
I've never had to do it on a car engine, but I've shimmed the valves on a few motorcycles and I was able to buy a shim kit that included many of the various sizes so that I wasn't stuck with down time... are there not kits available for your engine?
I just called the guy...it went south quickly. he ended up telling me to kiss his ass and hung up on me, something about how he'd been doing work for 30 years..i guess he got pissed when I told him that evidently nobody checked his work.
I lose on this one...there are only a few shops that are truly qualified to do caliber work in the city it seems, and I seem to find all of the wrong ones.
There are no shim kits for this engine, each shim has to be purchased separately. I'm gonna walk across the street here in a while and see what kind of a jug phck that'll be.
I just called the guy...it went south quickly. he ended up telling me to kiss his ass and hung up on me, something about how he'd been doing work for 30 years..i guess he got pissed when I told him that evidently nobody checked his work.
I lose on this one...there are only a few shops that are truly qualified to do caliber work in the city it seems, and I seem to find all of the wrong ones.
There are no shim kits for this engine, each shim has to be purchased separately. I'm gonna walk across the street here in a while and see what kind of a jug phck that'll be.
Up until last week I worked with an ******* like that. He refused to keep up with the constant changes in automotive technology and **** up and/or misdiagnosed a lot of cars but it was never "his" fault because he'd been working on them that way for years.My favorite. The "I've been doing it for 30 years" guy that can't pull his head out of his own ass long enough to open his eyes and realize that, just maybe, he's been doing it wrong for 30 years....
You have to bolt on cams to check valve lash. You have to remove cams to bolt the head on.....It made sense to me that I’d bolt on the head, and check the clearance...see the paradox?And what made you check it now as opposed to when you just got it back or before you bolted it to the block? Honestly I'm surprised you did not know better Mike. You check anything that any machine shop does in short order of receiving parts back, if not shame on you.
Scott
Shimless buckets are twice what an entire set of shims would cost. ANNDDDD... they are for guys that intend to buzz the engine to almost 9 grand....( Which I do not)uhhh the 2jz is definitely alive and well. Lol
Guys are building them for supras and other stuff left and Right. Finding parts like stock cam shims is another story .
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Shimless buckets are twice what an entire set of shims would cost. ANNDDDD... they are for guys that intend to buzz the engine to almost 9 grand....( Which I do not, well not yet anyway)