12-08-2014, 01:44 PM
April 2014 the serpentine belt tensioner broke on my wife's way home from work, thankfully it wasn't the timing belt. I had way too many other projects going to deal with it and thought perhaps it was time for a new car for the wife's daily driver so it sat parked since then. After my wife test drove a bunch of cars she decided she like the current car better (at least before the tensioner broke) so after a few more months of sitting I finally got it towed to my buddy's house so we could have lots of room to work on it and spread parts around. He is a Toyota mechanic but has been dying to get his hands on this thing to tear it apart for fun, sick bastard.
Once we got it over there and off the truck the rear wheels were locked tight so we couldn't roll it into the barn. We had to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out how to open the hood since the latch was stuck and once it was open we hooked the big ass battery cart to it and started it long enough to break the wheels loose. AWD with no power steering is a bitch but we got it rolled into the shop after a three point turn, ow my arms hurt. Jamming a 2.7 v6 twin turbo motor into a space made for a much smaller 4 cylinder means there is no room for anything in the bay. In order to get to the belts, water pump, etc. you have too pull the front clip and so off it came.
![[Image: 7zGGBin.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/7zGGBin.jpg)
Damn still not much room to get to anything except the front of the motor.
One of the turbos has been making noise since around 70k miles in 2006-7 and it is now at 145k and 7-8 years later so we decided the heck with will pull the motor and just replace everything,
After many hours of banged knuckles and cursing German engineering we got the motor out Saturday.
![[Image: PNO2pI3.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/PNO2pI3.jpg)
No air tools allowed since there was no room for any of them and you better have skinny wrenches to get to a lot of stuff and damn there were a million wire ties and allen bolts used. Thye even have little thermal blankets with snaps to go around parts of the wiring to protect them from heat.
It finally made it on to the engine stand so we can find all the leaks and figure out everything that needs to be replaced.
![[Image: kJMaTg8.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/kJMaTg8.jpg)
Since it is the original clutch that was on the list and of course it is a dual mass flywheel so that gets replaced too, luckily I found a great deal on both so I did not go single mass since it is a commuter car.
Replacing every rubber hose, both water pumps, every seal and gasket, both turbos, god knows what else cam pads, rollers, pulleys, etc. Good thing there is no budget for this project, all I know is it will be cheaper than a new car. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> It is tempting to just stage 3 it but once again a daily driver going 45 miles or so a day so keeping it where it was which is about 300hp.
Once we got it over there and off the truck the rear wheels were locked tight so we couldn't roll it into the barn. We had to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out how to open the hood since the latch was stuck and once it was open we hooked the big ass battery cart to it and started it long enough to break the wheels loose. AWD with no power steering is a bitch but we got it rolled into the shop after a three point turn, ow my arms hurt. Jamming a 2.7 v6 twin turbo motor into a space made for a much smaller 4 cylinder means there is no room for anything in the bay. In order to get to the belts, water pump, etc. you have too pull the front clip and so off it came.
Damn still not much room to get to anything except the front of the motor.
One of the turbos has been making noise since around 70k miles in 2006-7 and it is now at 145k and 7-8 years later so we decided the heck with will pull the motor and just replace everything,
After many hours of banged knuckles and cursing German engineering we got the motor out Saturday.
No air tools allowed since there was no room for any of them and you better have skinny wrenches to get to a lot of stuff and damn there were a million wire ties and allen bolts used. Thye even have little thermal blankets with snaps to go around parts of the wiring to protect them from heat.
It finally made it on to the engine stand so we can find all the leaks and figure out everything that needs to be replaced.
Since it is the original clutch that was on the list and of course it is a dual mass flywheel so that gets replaced too, luckily I found a great deal on both so I did not go single mass since it is a commuter car.
Replacing every rubber hose, both water pumps, every seal and gasket, both turbos, god knows what else cam pads, rollers, pulleys, etc. Good thing there is no budget for this project, all I know is it will be cheaper than a new car. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/smile.png" class="smilie" alt="" /> It is tempting to just stage 3 it but once again a daily driver going 45 miles or so a day so keeping it where it was which is about 300hp.
![[Image: 968s42-s.jpg]](http://adamblauer.com/web/cars/968s42-s.jpg)