[batmmannn]

Thanks Nailhead. What do you use to hold the cam shaft. I see they use a special tool in the book but I guess any thing that will hold that wheel will work.

Somehow I either lost my ac belt tension pulley or its put aside somewhere. Can pull from the other car if it does not turn up right away. Wondering if it was missing from the car but I think I remember pulling it. Not sure.

Anyway, Auto Zone finally came through with my timing belt. Had the timing cover bay ready and clean when it came.

Used some fine sand paper and tapping on the gaskets with a hammer to clean the gasket material off the plenum. Found my finger nails useful to pic off some of the harder gasket in the tighter areas. Though I now have the dirtiest nastiest fingernails in the East...lol

I am putting her back together now. I did some cleaning but will try to steam power wash the motor at some later point. What are your thoughts on that?

New plug wires to route, the plenum to put back on, radiator....etc and then she should be running. I was careful to sand the ground location on the block before reattaching it. The timing belt as you well know is hard to stretch on, my trick was to hook the drivers side cam sprocket one tooth tighter and then pull it toward the drivers side with a wrench getting the belt as tight as possible and then pulling as hard as you can working the belt over the passenger cam sprocket. It is a bear but that worked for me. I didn't have to pry with a large screwdriver or do anything that would have compromised the new belt. It helped when I took the large bolt out of the idler pulley. I attached the spring and then checked the tension to be even from both spans on the belt and then torqued down the idler pulley bolt.

Not too concerned about the AC right now till I see how well it does. Thought seriously about pulling the compressor for new seals but thought twice about it because I would have to tape closed the lines. Made better sense to wait, pull the one on my Black Supra and rework that, then put it on the 5 speed. Then after that do it again for the Black Auto Supra. I am sure it must be bad after 7 years of sitting.

So tomorrow I will see if I can get her fired up. Not much left to do. Could use a good set of tires though. One tire cracked after driving and went flat so maybe the others will as well. I have fog lights to buy, Speakers are all blown, drivers auto lock switch is broke or jammed. Over head lights don't work but all in good time.

The tires on the Black Supra look better so I might be borrowing those as well. Less tread but No cracking as of yet. Fog Lights were taken from the Red one for the Black one years ago. Guess they are coming back home to the Red one.

New valve cover gaskets are on, front seal is in, Timing belt is on and adjusted at top dead center alignment. Just a matter of hooking it all back up now.

Hopefully I will have a runner soon! Here are 2 new pics.... Scott