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Just one idea re colours. Keep the colours relatively light, that makes it easier to spot potential leakages of oil and/or water.

Oil seals; from a car dealer, Yeomans, (heavy on Toyota) in Brighton, UK. (the spare part manager there has sorted me out several times with spare parts that Toyota Thailand is not able to deliver) Well if you say 15 minutes/valve ain't too bad maybe I shouldn't complain, but my expectation...

Thanks. I have one of those "pliers". Bought it on Amazon. I found that getting springs/retainers/keepers off and out was not tricky. The cumbersome part was to assemble the pieces after having changed the oil seal. Used the valve plier in the pic but the tricky bit was to get the keepers in...

I have just had both cylinder heads off in order to change the oil seals on the valves. I have 4 different valve tools, none of them even close to fit the 1UZ head/valves. Took hours and hours to fix all 32 valves, the most time consuming bit was fitting the keepers after the seal was changed...

thanks for that info yes dip-style chrome, with lax cleaning before dip I suspect¨ I will for sure ask around if people here know about this powder treatment.

Very nice! Is this powder treatment available for a range of colours? Subjected my cam covers to chrome treatment a few years back, looked nice 1 year, then the chrome started to get wrinkles and peel off. Am not familar with powder treatment. Do you do it yourself or do you send the parts to...

Slowly getting the hang of this now I think. Put on left cylinderhead and cams today, sorted out the timing belt. (First try resulted in some experience of valve interference.) 2nd try OK. (after the experienced interference took the 2 cams off again to check that retainers/keepers were still...

Right, thanks. Based on the fuel pipes; I have 2nd generation. Nope, cannot do like you and pick new blankings from the shelf. But I have a table on my terrace that has a plastic box on top in which I can find brand new blanking plugs, so I used them.

Not sure about generation. My best guess is Celsior late 1994 (after October) or early 1995. ---- At the ends of the camshaft housings there are some half-circular aluminium blocks (thickness about 7-8 mm or so) that seals off the housings. Along the half circle there are a couple of tiny...

Thanks a heap for your patience. I think that finally the haze has lifted and that I can see some light. I should of course have inserted the 6 mm before I took off the timing belt, while I still rotated the engine to fit the alignment marks. (then it doesn't matter that the threaded hole is...

Thank you. I understand now that I have expressed myself rather badly re the gears, sorry for that. Before I started to pluck off cams and cylinderheads the engine was turned to timing alignment position, like when you change the timing belt, (it was running smooth before I started). The...

TUTORIALS AND TERMINOLOGY: Have been through most, if not all, tutorials addressing water pump, timing belt, cams etc. Terms like, RIGHT, LEFT, CLOCKWISE, PASSENGER SIDE and DRIVER SIDE is used. Right and left are well explained, but driver side and passenger side are not. Is the writer...

Thanks for that. In the end that was what I did. Changing the valve oil seals was reasonably quick and easy with the cylinderhead off. (could use a rather big plier look-alike tool similar to what I used 35 years ago on Minis/Coopers and B18s) Did screw in a 6mm bolt in the left hand out-cam...

CYLINDER HEAD GASKET I found that my gaskets had some small "circles" of something like silicone gasket maker cream around the small holes in the gaskets. Is this something you normally do? Or do you just use the gaskets, dry, as they are?

ANOTHER QUESTION(s), PLEASE On the right hand side the 6 mm holes in the cam gears in the middle of the out-cam are far from being aligned. When I take out the in-cam and the out-cam, can I just open the spring on the out-cam and rotate the wheels so that the holes are aligned? Then insert the...

Ta. I saw that hint re 6 mm bolt in one of the tutorials also. However, on the engine's right hand side the holes in the two cog wheels are not aligned, roughly 180 degrees apart. How do I handle that? If I open the spring on the gear can I just rotate so that they are aligned, apply the 6 mm...

right, thanks for that. sizzor gears, the 2 "cog" wheels in the middle of the cams?

Thanks a heap for replying Zuffen. Thank you, I have seen the tutorials re string/rope and compressed air. (compressed air I don't have - string I have in abundance) My observed problem: engine oil leaking into the exhaust pipe for cylinders 6 and 8. My perception of what is wrong; either the...

QUESTION (-----> ADVICE PLEASE): Unless it pisses down tomorrow I will have a go at removing the cylinder head(s) for the purposeof changing the valve oil seals. Have read a bit in relevant tutorials linked to from this forum. I have forgotten what it really looks like when all the covers...

ADVICE SOUGHT: Where on the 1UZ do I find the engine's seriel number stamped in??