Make slowboy not so slow

[FattyBoomBatty]

Originally Posted by 1ViciousGSX

More pics of the chic please.

Dude, he IS the chick! Sex change for $5.99 in Burma these days.

[1ViciousGSX]

Originally Posted by FattyBoomBatty

Dude, he IS the chick! Sex change for $5.99 in Burma these days.

Oh damn

[A//// Guy]

Looks good, but you had all weekend, I expect the new motor to be installed already?

[asshanson]

Bah, we keep running into little problems that cause us to stop after 2 or 3 hours. Like Saturday, we didn't have a grinder so my friend went back to his house to do it. Sunday we were going to get all the belts on and transmission mounted an put back in, but the tensioner tool won't work because it's a 2g motor mount and 1g tensioner arm, it has to be compressed manually. No vice or clamps here for me, so again he had to go home and look for something at his house. Plus after a few hours in an unheated garage, my toes are numb.

We keep finding out about these little things as we go, and since it's my first time doing any of this, I'm going pretty slow. Yesterday I figured out how cams go in, with those caps and all, and how the rockers and lifters go in, and basically how a head works. So I'm learning and taking it slow.

[A//// Guy]

Yea having all the tools and equiptment is really handy. You should get a heater going when you are in there.

Hopefully the progress speeds up.

[FattyBoomBatty]

Heaters are overrated, I never had one that worked well. Just take breaks often, drink beer, too.

[asshanson]

Originally Posted by FattyBoomBatty

drink beer, too.

That's what I've been forgetting, and I had several beers just waiting in the fridge too.

[A//// Guy]

Haha I dont know, timing belts and beer dont sound like a good combo. haha

[asshanson]

Got the timing belt on, transmission on, turbo and intake on, etc etc. Now I was trying to get the timing belt cover on and ran into a few problems. Since I'm using a 2g motor mount, it doesn't seem to want to go on. Anyone who has a 6 bolt in a 2g want to give some input on this?

[TkrPerformance]

you need the 6bolt timing cover and cut it to fit around the 2g engine mount

[scheides]

+1 cut it!

[turbotalon1g]

Good luck man, sounds like a fight, but it will be worth it.

[asshanson]

Cutting it worked, but I suck at cutting since all I have is hedge trimmers. Turns out I just needed to break little sections off and since its so cold out pliers actually worked nice to snip off sections. I also had to cut out the bottom left corner since it has a custom front-facing oil filter housing that got in the way a little. But now the timing belt cover is on, water pump is hooked up with alternator belt on too. However, I noticed the pulley on the crank rubs a tiny bit on the timing belt cover, is that ok? Not the belts, but the back of the pulley itself.

Also, I noticed the shape of the two blocks is a little different where it meets the tranny. I have a bolt leftover, and it looks like there is an extra bolt spot on a 2g that's not there on this one. The right circle in red is what I'm talking about. On the 6 bolt it seems like there are only 3 bolts to hook up, and on my 2g there were 4. In the clutch picture I drew a red line where my 2g starter plate is bigger than the 6 bolt one, and also a circle where that extra bolt would go. I also noticed a couple holes on the left (next to where the starter goes, where the left circle is in the first pic) that don't seem to go to anything... I should have taken more pictures when taking it apart.

Do I need the intake mani brace? My 2g one doesn't fit on the 1g block.

Edit: I learned what a clutch pilot tool is today, I had to go get one after an hour of trying to figure out why the transmission wouldn't go on.

[JET]

That bolt hole in the front is an extra, don't forget to put the bolt on from the back side of the tranny, the smaller one. There should be 4 bolts holding the tranny on. The small bolt goes through the middle of the back dowel pin.

Trash the intake mani brace, just extra weight.

[scheides]

Keep going man! There should be no rubbing on any pulleys, that would be bad! LOL 2 the clutch alignment tool, YES you need it

[A//// Guy]

Looks like good progress, now throw that beast in! haha

And yea make sure nothing rubs on anything, that would be bad.

[asshanson]

It's going in today, right after my 2:30 meeting. However, I realized that I don't have a banjo bolt to get oil from the head to the turbo, since a few months ago I decided to swap the SS line for an oil filter housing one, stupid me. I'll see if any of my friends here have one, hopefully I can get one by Saturday, or if MAP still has the one I gave back, I guess I could ask them to ship it.

Does the stock 6 bolt come with a banjo bolt from Mitsu at the head? I have the circular part that hooks up to the SS line, but I don't have a correct bolt size that goes into the head, the one I have is too large. I doubt an OEM one would match up to the circular part I have, but it's a shot.

The circle part I have is 12mm inner diameter, which I guess would be the diameter of the banjo bolt I have which is too big. Looks like the head may be around 10mm??

[TkrPerformance]

I probley have one. If I do I can just send it to you

[FattyBoomBatty]

I'm sure it's similar with wrong wheel drive cars, but on my quest, I never used a clutch alignment tool and I have done at least four engine installes either in my car or someone elses.

All you do it turn the crank pully a little bit till the splines line up and voila.

[asshanson]

Originally Posted by FattyBoomBatty

I'm sure it's similar with wrong wheel drive cars, but on my quest, I never used a clutch alignment tool and I have done at least four engine installes either in my car or someone elses.

All you do it turn the crank pully a little bit till the splines line up and voila.

That wasn't the issue, the inside disc wasn't lined up in the center of the clutch, it was off to the side 1/2" so the tranny wouldn't go on at all. This little plastic piece lines up with the splines and goes into the center of the flywheel to keep it centered.