Tonight wasn't quite as productive. I spent about 2 hours on carpentry/masonry trying to figure out how I could get the car above the engine. This method sucks and is dangerous. I finally resigned to removing the rear bumper cover and using the cherry picker to lift the chassis by the towloops.. This took about 30min, so I wasted 1.5 pissed off, dangerous hours trying to find a novel new way to do it.
Those fake plastic push-screws that hold the rear bumper cover to the crush bar have my vote for Toyota's worst fastener. There was about a cup full of dust and 12 years of grime under the bumper cover. A sorry state of affairs:
Once it was lifted, the motor rolled right out on its custom dolly:
Your garden variety 5SFE... The longblock is already sold for $200 to a guy whose daughter's ex-boyfriend let the oil out of her Celica GTS, and the tranny is going to a 18yo kid with with a 91 MR2 in need of a tranny for $50. Good homes.
The obligatory shot:
The rest of the weekend will be spent degreasing and restoring the engine bay and bumper area, as well as installing the Walbro 255lph fuel pump that just got here today. Deadline to first start is about 3 weeks.
