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[mkernz22]

Yeah, that would definitely be a good idea!

Should I get these? About 50 minutes left and I'm not sure, thoughts?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TRD-Tundra-...sQ5fAccessories

[Ted95]

Yeah, that would definitely be a good idea!

Should I get these? About 50 minutes left and I'm not sure, thoughts?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TRD-Tundra-...sQ5fAccessories

if you want to go for it lol. i almost bought some but then i decided not too, i put the money towards somethin else for my swap. they r nice tho

[mkernz22]

Yeah, that would definitely be a good idea!

Should I get these? About 50 minutes left and I'm not sure, thoughts?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/TRD-Tundra-...sQ5fAccessories

if you want to go for it lol. i almost bought some but then i decided not too, i put the money towards somethin else for my swap. they r nice tho

I'm gunna hold off on them, i bet there will be more in the future anyway.
I need to get a new boot and shift knob cause the boot is torn and the knob is just ehhh lol


Edit: One thing that I did buy are TRD license plate frames and I bought a special frame to throw on once my car is painted

This post has been edited by mkernz22: Nov 19, 2010 - 11:49 PM

[mkernz22]

I guess you can call this an update, but I just found out my friend has an engine hoist!
Hopefully getting that Sunday afternoon, and then I'll hopefully be pulling the engine on Wednesday with my dad
Possible scrapping the car Wednesday as well.

[Ted95]

I guess you can call this an update, but I just found out my friend has an engine hoist!
Hopefully getting that Sunday afternoon, and then I'll hopefully be pulling the engine on Wednesday with my dad
Possible scrapping the car Wednesday as well.

you goin to mess around with the other 5s and drop it in? (eventually)

[mkernz22]

Yeah that's what I plan on doing
I'm going to do a regular tune up on it over the winter

[mkernz22]

Almost forgot, I got the hoist from my friend today and I bought a 1000lbs engine stand at harbor freight, only $50!
Can't wait for Wednesday!

[Ted95]

nicee mike thats sickk good scrore on the stand.

try lookin into some tune up things you can do to the 5s or N/A type motors u kno. you wont get a lot of power but somethin better then a reg 5s.

[mkernz22]

These came in today!

[HectortheRican]

Yours are different than mine. The TRD in the Toyota Racing Development wasn't highlighted like that. Nice!!

[mkernz22]

That's why I got them haha
I was about to do a buy now with the all white lettering.
Then I saw the red highlighted ones and I was like yes!
Click, Click "Buy Now", Few more clicks, WIN!

[mkernz22]

Finally got some pictures of all 3 cars the other day haha
You guys only need one to get the point

[Ted95]

i didnt realize you had 3 lol .. u drive the silver and black one right? then wats the story w the other black one?

do u still have the gas tank on the silver parts car too??

This post has been edited by Ted95: Nov 23, 2010 - 5:21 PM

[mkernz22]

yeahh i have 3 lol
the middle one is actually blue and that's the one i'm taking the manual tranny out of in the spring.

I do have it, it's not in bad shape, but you will need to fix up the area where the nozzle goes into it cause it has a little bit of rust on it.
The car might be getting scrapped tomorrow, so let me know if you want it.


This post has been edited by mkernz22: Dec 10, 2014 - 9:31 AM

[mkernz22]

mission engine pull equaled success!
i have pictures, but im too lazy to post them right now lol
It only took my dad and I about 3 1/2 hours to pull it (our first time).
The driver's side axle wouldn't come out of the hub and it wouldn't come out of the tranny so we did it our own way.
Also, found out the reason why the tranny was f*cked up, you'll see in the pics once i post them.
Overall though, it was a great experience!

[Soulend]

good work man, I don't see why you'd have problem with the axle up removal... a hammer works awesome . I had problem getting the axles out of my ST tranny and just left them on lifting the engine out... the pass side fell out evenually but the driver side stayed, and was still there until recently .

anyway good to hear you got it out!

Kevin

[mkernz22]

We were whacking at the axle, after we took the bolt off, for at least 15-20 minutes.
The bolt alone on the driver's side took about 30 minutes to get off.
Yeah, it was that stuck / rusted on there.
The passenger side was a breeze through!

BTW, I have the first piece that you were looking for, but I can't seem to find the other bracket.

[Soulend]

yeah those nuts... need a major pbblaster soak... Im in the chat talk to me there

[mkernz22]

yeah they do lmao

[mkernz22]

Alright, so here's the scoop with some pictures, well a decent amount of pictures.
This is my first ever engine pull and the same goes for my dad.

Just a picture before everything was setup. We had to turn the car around, wasn't that hard because there wasn't anything in it, but we did push it back up the driveway with the blue car. It's not like anyone was going to be buying the rear bumper off it anyway haha


Don't have any pictures of it, but we jacked the car up and took the wheels off.
I had to run to the local auto parts store to get a 30mm socket because I never had a reason to have one before lol
While I was gone my dad took the bolts and nuts off the bottom of the control arms.


We then proceeded to take the nut off the axles. The passenger side came off very easily and the axle came out after a few bangs.
Then I unbolted the carrier bearing area, hit a flat head in between the two brackets and they just popped apart and the axle was out of the tranny.



The driver's side, well that's another story...
Basically, the nut was well rusted and stuck on there. We sprayed plenty of PB Blaster on it and it took us a while to get it off.
After, I'd say about, 30 minutes later and a slightly bend 1/2" ratchet, it was off, but we still had to overcome another problem.
The axle was rusted on as well, who would have figured? After 15 minutes of whacked and blasting it we gave up.
I gave Manny (Pressure2) a call to ask him how to get the axle out of the tranny.
He explained it to me, but my dad and I couldn't figure it out so that lead us to doing it our own way.


Pretty much we just cut the boot / rubber piece that was on there, and yanked part of the axle out.
It worked and it saved us a lot of time haha
After that we cut the exhaust right after the header ended because the nuts on it were stripping.
The guy in the picture is my dad.



Then we proceeded to disconnect all the hoses and junk so the engine would pull right out.
While we were starting to pull the engine we forgot about the shifter cable.
Since neither of us realized that there was a bracket that was mounted to the tranny holding the cable in place, we just took a saw to the cable and cut it lol
Once that was done we hooked up the chain to the engine brackets, or whatever you want to call them, and pulled it out.





After it was out, we stumbled upon the answer to why the automatic tranny was sh!t.


Must have spun or broke something in there lol
Then just a picture of my dad and I.


And here are just a few random pictures of different things.










And that's pretty much it haha
My first time really wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be!
Any one want anything before I junk it??? It's getting junked this Friday!

This post has been edited by mkernz22: Nov 24, 2010 - 9:34 PM