Tonight I went and borrowed Kevin’s engine lift – again! The original plan was to just lift it up so I could swap engine mounts but decided to remove the whole thing a do a few other things I have been putting off. It was also going to be easier for me to do with the engine out.

This is how I torqued the flywheel bolts. It is always a challenge but at least it’s not the big nut like an eccentric shaft. Actually I learned this from having to deal with that big nut on the eccentric shaft. Know what I’m talking about? Continue reading →

I am doing the fun process of wiring. It’s fun. Hooray.

I suppose I could have just left everything and whatever wasn’t used wouldn’t be connected. Continue reading →

I really don’t know why I thought about this sooner, but to verify my idea that changing the indicators on my cluster would work – i simply shined a flashlight behind them.

Seems to work and almost better than I expected. Continue reading →

Continued working on my gauge cluster and got everything mounted.

Kept stock fuel level, turn and high beam indicator but unfortunately had to ditch the low fuel warning light. Continue reading →

Starting the process of setting up the gauges from the FC into the Corolla. Some of you may scoff at the fact they are Autometer gauges, but guess what – I got them for free, so I am going to use them. Not as many as I had in the FC but most of them.

For the main cluster I needed to take apart the stock piece to make the template for the replacement panel. Continue reading →