My 3s-gte Thread, rebuild project (pics) Done! Options

[95celgt]

Hey every one, this is my thread dedicated to the 3sgte in my car.
Im making one thread for all the projects that will be done to the motor itself.

Info: Since I bought the car from Chanh55, I was wondering why it was not performing as it should, I did various tune-ups, only making marginal difference.

The biggest project I did up to this point on this motor was when i took out the piping and FMIC to clean it out(this made a huge difference BTW). I addressed this due to massive blow-by coming out of the valve cover PCV pipe. clean up project

Well after that, I decided to check compression and the numbers were as follows: 180:170:95:180
As you can tell my #3 cylinder is gone for some reason....so the tear down began:

Stage 1:
Bolt on accesories taken off(TB,ALT, FMIC stuff, etc.) as well as harness plugs.

radiator out

turbo and manifold out (this was probably the hardest step lol)

Head off:I had to go to pep boys to get the t-55 hex bit for the wierd toyota head bolts.


This post has been edited by 95celgt: Sep 25, 2006 - 12:06 AM

[95celgt]

Hehe, thanks playr.

Some FYI for the readers....

Take the crank pulley/harmonic balancer off the motor BEFORE you start tearing apart the block, UNLESS you pave power tools like the impact gun. This way you can take off the timing cover, these two things deprived me of the clearance for the bellhousing to clear the clutch pressure plate, so i spent hours trying to squeeze the block down under the car, so that i could place it in a verticle position to take it out. It was the only way i could get it out with the tranny still in there.

Over all it was pretty simple, but just time consuming. I have the dash peices dissasembled as im STILL trying to get the speedo to work.

I was also gonna take this oppertunity to stick the a/c condensor and hard lines back in, but once i was aware that the wiring had to be modified for that as well, I kind of gave up on that hope....this decision may lead me to having to look for another car due to the constant 100+ degree temps here(even in the evening), but more on that later.