Marcus's Sr20 Ke70

[Ke70 Fan]

UPDATE: Dropped the car off to work on thursday and went in and spent some time working on her.

 

I installed polyurethane steering rack bushes, and the lock spacer I've had for for ages.

Because I didn't find any pics with the instructions I thout I'd post up the process and explain some stuff.

This is a task that can be handled easily by mechanical n00bies :)

 

First loosen the clamps on the rack side of the dust boots (small phillips screw) and slide them down the tie rod.

 

 

If your wondering why there's less grease on the passenger side it's because the rack teeth are on the drivers side.

 

Then use a fairly big adjustable wrench to crack the inner tie rods (Don't worry about the little locking tab, just put the wrench on that too), and in my case I could undo the rest by rotating it with my hand.

They're traditional left is loose, right is tight (Some cars are not).

 

Screw in the rack spacer on the passenger side and tighten it. Do not go overtightening. Locktight is not needed at all but if it makes you feel better put some medium stuff on not the supertight stuff.

Then slip the spacer on the drivers side tie rod and reattach both tie rods.

 

 

Now the important thing to do is center the rack when aligning it after.

Sounds hard, but it's really simple. Measure on the drivers side from the end of the rack HOUSING to the inner tierod (not spacer) and on the passenger side end of rack housing to the wider part of the spacer; turn the steering till both measurements are exactly the same.

 

Get the idea?

 

Your steering wheel will not be straight. remove and reattach it as straight as the splines/boss kit let you, reinstall the dust boots then get an alignment with you steering wheel straight and your rack will be centered. And your done, Tada! :D

 

I did something different as I'm not getting an alignment or driving it yet so tomorrow I will 100% confirm this as the correct way. 99.99% sure this is correct.

 

I also started to run ae86 fuel lines, figuring out where they need to be re-shaped

 

 

Lastly I spent some time making the transmission crossmember.

It's one piece of steel C channel. Not finished yet as I need to make a raised platform at the back (remember I'm solid mounting the engine and gearbox). Pic is before it's welded. I'll post more pics when it's fully completed.

 

 

Might get some very small stuff done tomorrow but unlikely, in which case updates will be Monday night :)

 

 

Marcus

Edited April 26, 2013 by Ke70 Fan

[Ke70 Fan]

Could a mod please change the Topic Title to 'Marcus's Sr70' ?

TY :)

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Go to the very first post. Hit 'EDIT'. The hit 'GO TO FULL EDITOR'.

 

Then you can edit thr title yourself :y:

[Ke70 Fan]

Thanks mate, I spent a while trying to figure that one out, lol :yes:

[LittleRedSpirit]

With the name SR70, to a Toyota person, your describing a LiteAce van with a 3sge. Its kind of confusing. If you want to follow Toyota conventions and name it something we can quickly understand, name it an sre-70. E meaning Corolla chassis.

[Ke70 Fan]

Sorry, I never thought there would be any confusion.

It"s got me interested though :) is it a 3-sfe liteace with a 3-sge conversion? what model came out with it?

If so I can't figure out why they call it an sr70 :hmm: google proved useless, but I might have been typing the wrong things.

Thanks

[Ke70 Fan]

Today I got some of the annoying things done. I completely fitted up the ae86 fuel feed and return lines and swapped the hoses coming off the block as they were on the wrong ones (feed on return; return on feed). Got my fuel tank up with lines on, and will securely mount it when I make a flexible breather line that follows the fuel filler neck which would have been done if repco hadn't completely forgot the order. Can't complain though, they're normally very good.

 

 

I pulled out the standard pedal pox in preparation for the ae71 pedal box I've had for ages awaiting this build. I pulled it apart and cleaned up the rust before painting it black, I'll hopefully be putting it in tomorrow if I get time to cut out the master cylinder hole. I installed the slave cylinder aswell.

 

 

I pulled the entire wiring loom out in preparation for a complete shell re-wire. Finally I got to mounting the battery box. I was originally going to mount it behind the passenger seat but decided in the boot because I want a little more weight over the rear axle. Unfortunately when I thought I was about done I realised one of the mounting holes I drilled was a cm to far to the left as I did it by eye, I'll fix it in the morning as it was the end of the day.

 

 

Don't have pics of everything, will take more tomorrow.

 

Tomorrows main goal is to finish off the engine and gearbox mounts. If i complete that I'll get onto other things.

 

Also for those that asked I found the video camera with the motorkhana footage. Unfortunately, I didn't find the charger which is needed to connect it to the computer and ofcourse sony has to be difficult by using their own memory card instead of a standard SD card like eeryone else! so looks like no footage till i buy a new charger.

[Ke70 Fan]

Alright, I finally feel like this thing is coming together! So having my hands looking like I went 3 rounds with a brick wall is worth it :D

 

First up today I finished up mounting the battery box. I used 4mm thick steel to make washers so the pressure is spread out more making it very strongly mounted. I had to move one mount; I explain why in last post. There is half a mm clearance with the boot hinge when it closes :P

 

 

My shiny pedal box

 

Unfortunately the box was very slightly twisted, only by about 2mm but enough for the bolts not to line up with the top ones. So I clamped it in a vice and twisted it back with a pry bar. Then lined it up on the inside, marked the bottom bolt hole for the clutch master and the preceded to drill t the holes for it........................................................................

However I forgot to bend the brake like before I drilled and it went through the side of it :bash:

Anyway, it's not a big deal I'll get one from a wrecker.

Finished of the holes and mounted it and the clutch master cylinder.

 

 

I then set about today's main task of filing the mounts to get the engine to sit correctly and have the mounting surfaces perfectly flat as any uneven mating wil destroy something as i'm solid mounting everything. I ended up putting a large suspension washer at the bottom of the mount as the crossmember mount on the drivers side was slightly collapsed and the other wasn't perfectly flat. It took quite a while but I got them so perfectly flat even I was surprised, and thrilled!!!! :dance:

 

 

I swapped the flexible fuel return line at the tank with almost new line and my fuel line to use for the breather arrived but i'll do that tomorrow morning.

 

And a random pic of me working out how I'm going to mount the radiator and oil cooler

 

 

That's it for today. Tomorrow's goals are

-source and fit a new brake line to replace the one I broke

-run breather line

-finish transmission mount

-Work out a clutch line

-Trim up the hella mad drift pipes :rocknroll: I don't mind the look but it's not really my style :yes:

 

Could someone please tell me if I get an ae71 clutch line if it'll work? Cheers :)

[Tipu Khan]

hmm..u made it GooD...:)

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[Ke70 Fan]

hmm..u made it GooD... :)

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See my Ke70.http://www.rollaclub...my-toyota-ke70/

 

Thanks mate, I look at what it is now compared to what was and am just amazed because to me it doesn't look too different as i've been doing little things at a time but when I compare to when I bought it, just wow! :)

That's a very neat ke70 you've got there, I'd like one simular for the road, any future plans for it?

 

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Today I ran the breather hose and properly mounted my fuel tank, and after spending an age on the phone to wreckers trying to find a replacement brake line, I ended up going to rowville brake and clutch around the corner and asked them how much to make a new one. It was much less than I thought it'd be and and so I got them to make it and instead of getting an ae71 clutch line, they made me up some flexible line to the right length. I fitted them up, took a bit of time bending the new brake line exactly right so it'd fit where it was originally but all fitted right. I had a fiddle with the exhaust and working out what i'm going to do for a mount and if I might get a flexi-joint put in. I also got down to westys steel and bought what i'd need to mount the radiator. My oil cooler will be mounted with the same C channel I used for the transmission crossmember which I didn't get around to today. I usually take pics after the day end but unfortunately for you guys I worked until I was forced out so I have no photos :( so I'll take some tomorrow.

 

Tomorrows goals are to

-switch the oil cooler lines around for how it'll now be mounted out the front

-bleed all the brakes and clutch will rf700 Martini race fluid

-get or machine up a mounting pin for the clutch master to pedal (thing that slots through them to hold them together)

-Finally finish transmission crossmember

-Mount oil cooler

 

Hopefully this is all achievable.

Sorry no pics, post tomorrow night :D

Edited May 2, 2013 by Ke70 Fan

[Ke70 Fan]

Another update already!

I was having a look at the TechnoToyTuning website and before I knew it I had bought adjustable 4-link and panhard bar :lolcry:

Now I have no money left, so I hope for now there is nothing left to buy :P

Chances? =ZERO!

 

I left just enough (I hope) for the wiring :)

[Ke70 Fan]

Alright!, Here's the pics of yesterday's work :)

 

My Ae86 fuel tank mounted with all the lines ran

 

My new brake line in

 

and here's my master clutch cylinder mounted and line ran

 

And how my exhaust sits,,i've checked all clearances at full droop and squat and it clears fine, so i'm just going to make a fairly solid mount to keep it in place.

I didn't get around to trimming exhaust tips.

 

I also got 35mm square tubing and some 3mm thick steel for the radiator mounts.

 

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Today I bled the clutch, I didn't finish the brakes.I also broke off the cable clutch mount to clear the clutch master lid and brake booster vacuum line.

i cut out the front panel to get max airflow for the radiator

 

I then spent nearly the whole day making the oil cooler mounts, swapping lines and fittings to make it work. I had to remove the alternator to access the fittings on the block.

All done

 

I just have to make an oil filter mount, then I will make a rubber grommet of some sort for where the lines go through the front and then i'll cable tie them together

 

And you can see I removed the engine chain as the engine won't be needing to come out again :)

 

It then took half an hour to clean up my work area and I removed the looped heater hose as because it was looped 180 degrees it kinked and ballooned up so I buying block of caps.

 

Tomorrow if work is quiet enough at some point I will bleed the brakes and machine up a clutch rod to pedal mount.

 

Monday I will do the trans mount and radiator mount.

 

Any orangy spots you see in the pics btw is dirty coolant that came out when I removed the heater hose.

 

If we're quiet enough tomorrow there will be an update.

And thanks for any support and comments from you guys, it's great to feel that others appreciate what i'm doing :)

[Adsport]

trick for protecting braided (or any ) lines that go through holes : get some vacuum tube (I use new silicone where I can but you can use old crappy stuff) and slice it down its length so you essentially have a split tube, and it will look like a rubbery version of electrical convaluted tube. just feed it on to the hole outer diameter, make sure its longer than it needs to be to cover the metal edge and wiggle it on there. the tension of the hose being too long will push the hose out into the hole and hold it there.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Or buy some pinch weld, we use it at work, its good stuff.

 

[Adsport]

Oh mister high roller there! hehehhe

 

 

I've never found pinchweld to be as versatile or bendy as using silicone hose, but yes it would be constituted as the 'proper' way :)