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Very cool design. I haven't seen anyone do something like that before. You've given me a few ideas though.

Just to be clear, I'm in no way inferring you made more mistakes or anything. :) My comment was aimed at the fact that you had a supposedly good mating surface on both the head and block, but it still blew. Torque spec was off, cheap gasket used, but even with those, I would hope an NA would...

I have an evergreen head gasket literally hanging on my wall. That's about all it's good for. I got the head gasket set, bought a real Toyota hg and used the evergreen one as a wall ornament. ;) To the OP, you had a few fatal flaws working against you that we know of, probably more we dont...

Yikes. Sorry to hear.

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Ya, my stand works fine with the tranny bolts. Granted the bolts don't go in more than an inch or just over, but it seems more than enough to do the job without risking damage to the block.

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So I checked it today and it's definitely worn a little. Can a shop easily weld material on and cut away a new keyway? It's barely worn/rounded on one side only, but it's noticable. This would explain the worn key as well. I thought the key was supposed to give well before the crank material...

I'll check it again, but I think that pic might be deceiving. I think it might just be the pic angle and the fact that the snout was quite dingy at that point. I assume you guys are referring to the front keyway for the harmonic balancer and NOT the timing gear one? The woodruff for the...

Aluminum foil? Metal mesh wrap?

5Zigen 5 spokes:

BVSV, same part is found on nearly all late 80's-early90's toyotas. Chances are, you can find a pristine one at a local junkyard for under 5 bucks.

I haven't found a single machineshop in CO that has a hardness tester. Do I happen to keep calling super shitty machine shops, or is hardness testing not a common thing to do?

Cool, thanks for the responses everyone. Reaffirmed what I thought for the most part. Need to debate whether I should send the crank in tomorrow with the head or wait to do it later when it's not 20 F in the garage. :(

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So we got the rod caps off the other day on the 88 auto and this is what the crank and bearings looked like. The car never knocked or had low oil pressure. It had a blown head gasket so we wanted to check bearings to make sure they were healthy. Plastigage said bearings were well within...

The thread type is the 1.25 part of what the M10 x 1.25 the OP posted. ;) Fine and coarse thread is for english threads. Metric actually uses numbers to quantify how fine the thread is right in the title.

i'm in north boulder, but i could always drive down to castle rock. Park meadows area is better for me, but either way is fine.

I deal with phones all day at work and the dare is horrible. Get a droid. ;) I'm typing this on one right now from work. :)