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Losing my Head

July 5th, 2009 by Rufus

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I’m finally getting around to working on the Toyota HJ45 Troopy that I bought last year. I’ve been fighting intermittent low compression numbers on one cylinder for about 1500 miles since I got it on the road. It’s become a big problem so I decided to pull the head and pistons to inspect the problem.

I knew the engine was tired but I wasn’t expecting the pistons and rings to look like this.

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This is the piston from the bad cylinder. The others aren’t as bad but are far from ideal. So it looks like I’ll need a whole new set of pistons and rings before I put it back together. This is one of those instances where having an Australian truck kinda sucks. I’ll have to order the parts from there and wait a few weeks for shipping.

At least I’m finally making some progress.

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