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Fuel pulsation damper installed, and no fuel leaks. I let the car idle up to operating temperature and looked for coolant/fuel leaks ... nothing! The only thing left to do now is time the car and drive it home.

You can clean them pretty good when off the car, just take out the bulbs. So long as the bugs aren't between the lense/platic then you're golden. If bugs are inside, well ... talk to Tekdues or look at his thread on how to seperate tail lights ;) (lots of work)

holy crap, how did that happen!? You are loosening it right? (righty tighty, lefty loosey) Once you get those off though, you'll have to restud your cuscos.

Found all my coolant leaks, my friend came by with a coolant system pressure tester - awesome tool! Pump it up to 0.9 bar (13psi) and go around the whole system listening for air or looking for drips. Of course, the heater core<->block hose was leaking WAY down there...argh should have checked...

There are more MK3s around then you think...most of them are just tucked away in a garage with ::bhg:: ;)

That's how low my car was when I installed rears in the front ... heh!

She's ALIVE! except I've got leaks of all sorts ;) First fire up, was OK then noticed I was absolutely pissing fuel somewhere. That was easy to find, I didn't tighten the damn fuel dampener enough. Next, fired it up and everything was OK...until it started to warm up slightly then coolant...

2am home time, and almost done. Dang, took a bit longer than expected to get all that random crap back on. Should fire up tomorrow!

more importantly though, there is still slight pitting around the cylinder ring. I just want some extra insurance...

So, head is back from the machine shop, everything looks good. It is nice and flat (according to them) and I am ready to put my supra back together tomorrow. I gotta borrow a straight edge tomorrow and double check to see if my block is flat. -ARP Studs -Stock Toyota head gasket -machined head...

Yup, that's the plan. Going to start it up with fresh water/oil and let it run for a bit. Drop the water/oil and refill the coolant and oil with good stuff.

Nope, didn't put anything in the water jackets as I scraped everything wet with lube. Scrape scrape + wipe. Repeat 1000x. Got the head back from the machine shop and everything looks really good. The head surface is crazy smooth! I polished up the cams with some scotch brite, and it turned...

Well, the car's been down for about a month now due to ::bhg:: I finally got around to taking the head off of the car a few nights ago, and was a little worried about scoring on the cam journals, and pitting on the block. It looks like whoever did the last HG job when it blew...

So that coating on the stock cam shaft acts as a bearing, seeing as the caps do not have any. Seems weird ;) I looked in the TSRM about polishing the cams but came back empty handed. http://www.cygnusx1.net/Supra/Library/TSRM/MK3/manual.aspx?S=EM&P=48 I also searched for babbit, and got some...

Surprisingly none of the lobes were blue, but were all quite scored. It almost looks like whoever did the last HG job torqued down the caps too tight. The only other thing I can think of is my car is parked on quite a steep drive-way with it's nose pointing down. I keep my car topped up with an...

Ok, some better pictures of the block. I went to down with razor blades for a good hour, then some oil/800 grit paper. Didn't push on the block at all, just let the block glide across. Also, I've got some brutal scoring going on my cam journals. There is quite a bit of aluminum residue from...

Lessons learned from others is often difficult...first hand experience leaves a much stronger imprint :| The good thing though is that I didn't waste much by changing out coolant/tstat/rad cap. I'm going to go clean up that block as best I can, take some good pics and see what you all...

lol Jetjock, I always had this sneaking suspicion that I had BHG but after the symptons went away after what I changed out, I figured it was fixed. WRONG! ;)

could somebody post some pics of what "bad pitting" looks like?

Couldn't find the maximum take-off, but .002" is the maximum warpage? http://www.cygnusx1.net/Supra/Library/TSRM/MK3/manual.aspx?S=A&P=4