Thread: Landcruiser HZJ77

I didn't have bits left over but when I did the timing chain on the Paj, there are a shit ton of timing marks to line up (because of the 2 balance shafts, oil pump, two idlers, top and bottom sprockets). Did it in place and really should've removed the radiator. Replaced a couple of damaged gears from the broken chain, but even after trying my small porta power to get the crank gear off it wouldn't.
Dressed the teeth back and as majority of the damage to that was in the middle where the two opposing gears don't run I cried enough and ran with it. If I'd used heat to get it off I might have had a shitfight getting another one back on and I still had to get another one. just called it.
I'm no diesel mechanic but reasonably mechanically inclined inclined but even after I made sure I could see them all and were right I still faffed around for ages.
You pretty much have to do it with the head off (mine was off anyway to get fixed because of the buggered cam after the chain let go), so its a big deep breath and say its fine then bolt the front alloy cover on which the AC, alternator and water pump are fixed to, then refit the head (and that costs you a decent head gasket and head bolts as they are torque to yield so nudging 200 bucks if you get it wrong).
AND I got the pump timing out a tooth so had to redo that because it was as gutless as but at least that's done with everything else fitted.