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:bigthumb: Good advice Mik! I was thinking it'd be nice if someone made an engine stand with two bearings in the rotating assembly but I guess that'd be asking too much.

BWAHAH HA! Ian, you never cease to disappoint! :biglaugh: Dr Jonez: Loving the alternator relocation bracket. That thing is a work of art! I'm seeing a lot of them cropping up here and there too. Nice to see innovation spreading like that!

Sorry, I didn't clarify that. Thanks for pointing out an obvious place for people to get confused! The Soarer motor is an old 82 (I think) 5M and is quite dead. It is entirely different to the new 7M that I'm putting into the Cressida. The old Soarer motor is just a chance to rob parts for...

Lastnight: I removed the old Soarer head from the motor I'm salvaging near where I work. The washers on the head bolts where a perfect fit for the missing "spacers" on my engine stand! So that's the first thing I did - remove the wrenches and replaced them with 2 washers each. Then...

You had it long enough to check so it's your own fault! :) Seriously though, I doubt it's got a 7m as the motor's likely a 87 or 88. Unless someone got a replacement crank for it along the way.

Thanks! I was just about to suggest they look at your pics.

Yes. The stamp should be fairly easy to see and if you can't find anything obvious, try rotating the crank. But it's probably easier just to see if the counterweights are there. They're fairly obvious. The 7m is fully counterweighted and the 6m is not.

Yeah, cooked on oil and probably a lot of blow by from the PCV. Actually, now that I think of it, that explains why it's so much worse on the intake side, as that's directly plumbed to the crankcase! The cams themselves look to be in good shape, I'm just hoping the clearance between cam and...

Looking good! I like the way gloss colors always look good in pictures, despite your comments about it exaggerating the flaws! Only you know differently. ;)

Boso: Thanks for your interest! Likewise, I'm also very interested in your progress. In fact, I think you'll be done a lot sooner than I am! About the only thing I might finish before you is the dipstick relocating and I'll be sure to share my results here.

Update! Last Night: Decided to spend about an hour tearing the motor down in preperation for pulling the head. I managed to get everything stripped off in the hour I set aside but wasn't actually able to start removing the head. I was surprised to learn the 7M-GE uses a variable length...

What and run the risk of going postal on all the innocent drivers on the way here? :P I'll see how I go on the dead block. I've got a lot going for me on this one because it's only one material. With the cam housing, the bit kept wandering to the softer alloy and getting caught between the...

Thanks for the tips! I'm planning to bring the dead 5m home this week (that's the Soarer motor I keep mentioning) and will practice on it first. I have a lousy habit of breaking drill bits in motor parts so I'll give this one several attempts on a dud block. The last nightmare I had with...

Wouldn't surprise me if the SST was a bar and screwdriver! I'll have another look at the dipstick hole but I could have sworn it was tapped. If it's not, that makes things much simpler. Ian, I take it the block material isn't rediculously hard and a normal metal drill bit will do the trick?

There should be room there. I'll have a look to be sure though. Here's a pic of the 5M location for the fuel filter:

It's mounted in almost the exact same spot as the vacuum chamber! In fact it probably uses the same holes in the block.

Thanks for filling in the blanks! I was just about to go search for the answer to that one. I don't know if there's a way for me to retrofit the 5m one back in the supra location, perhaps finding a home for it in the engine bay somewhere is a better option.

Just learned the "fuel filter" under the intake manifold is actually a vacuum reservoir (see "edit" on page 3)! Oh the things I've yet to learn...

Hmmm.... :evil2: That's definitely a thought. The only problem I have with that approach is timing. I want to keep the car as is on the road as long as possible and then plan to just spend a weekend doing the swap, when the time comes. I highly doubt I could swap the 5m head to the 7m...

Items That Need Addressing (To be ammended): There is a strut on the Supra motor that I'd love to use (assuming it's for damping engine vibration or perhaps it's a torque brace) but as there doesn't appear to be a place to mount it on the Cressida, it'll probably have to be left out. Anyone...