1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I just dropped off the timing kit with the mechanic

 

They didn't have one?

 

No I had to bring them the parts

 

I don't know what you are making, but it looks mighty impressive.

 

Weird, did ya buy a good kit. I just did a big purchase for all the gaskets and consumable parts on a whole 5VZ through partsouq. Was like $450 for everything to deck one out with OEM parts.

 

Anybody that I know?

 

I got the one from Yotatech, it was around $270. That gasket kit sounds like better value though, do you have a link? I also didn’t get the crank bolt.

 

It’s Joes Auto Repair out on Highway 12. He said he’d try to give me a good deal.

 

Should be ok.

 

You have to build it yourself with part nums, I can send a list of numbers to you when I get home though. When I said every gasket and consumable I meant it, not just for a timing job, like everything to turn an empty block into a ready to run 5vz.

 

He has a good rep, but he can be a little hard to get a hold of sometimes since he’s pretty much a one man show out there. But I don’t have to pay for his fancy shop.

 

Go spend $12 at toyota and get one, having that pulley fly off is bad

 

Sounds like really good value. I wonder what that would be for a 1FZ - have you priced that out?

 

Ok I might try the local stealership, they tend to charge double what you can find online though.

 

I need to do a full front end restore on the LC. It still drives sweet. Though I know its just a matter of time. So much to do. So little time. The guys in the CO trip have talked me out of trying to move the LSD rear end from the LX to the LC. Said it will be weird and hard to explain if I ever needed to sell it.

 

Those are usually the best kind.

 

I’m torn on this decision to move to the Palouse for this job. It’s only starting at 23/hr, but they said they might give me a raise after three months depending on performance.

I’m thinking about staying here and taking a retail analysis course at the local community college to try to land a job with a Walmart vendor.

 

I did the same thing and bought them all like 4 years ago, chances are its most expensive now but it was about $600 with a few missing seals, but I did throw a new oil cooler in and a new oil pump neither of which are strictly necessary.

 

I'm surprised they're still waiting for an answer, if I was a recruiter and didn't hear back in a week I'd move on

 

I’ve accepted it but I have a month to go before they’re expecting me. I’ll probably end up going and I’d hate to back out now, but I’d be leaving all the friends I’ve made at the coffee shop, and I doubt my relationship would survive the move either.