Yesterday, my brother and went up and picked up the transmission, I didn't get many pictures of the haul of parts but I will tomorrow. Here's one of the pieces, cost me $60.
Today, I did a leak down test on the 3.0L engine.The first two cylinders, I was getting ~10% leak down, but on the last four, I was getting ~4%. We did a better job finding TDC on the last four so I think the other two would have tested closer to 4% but even at 10%, that's still usable. These numbers are great on an engine that's been sitting for at least 2 years and it was just a dry test, I was going to put a bit of oil down in the cylinders if the results were not good.
I also stripped almost everything off of the engine, the intake and exhaust manifolds, the water pump, the broken engine mount arm, the fan bearing bracket, AC bracket, tensioner, oil filter housing. Everything needs to be cleaned plus all of that is being cleaned or replaced. The oil filter had to come off to get the intake manifold off and I couldn't find my oil filter wrench so I tried using a c-clamp which worked but not very well.
I've got to figure out how to use the fan bracket I ordered, I ordered it a month ago with the intention of keeping the CIS so I intended to put the emissions control stuff from my 2.6 to the 3.0 but with the Megasquirt, I really shouldn't need it to pass emissions in GA. The alternator bracket is different enough between the EGR/air pump engine and non-egr/air pump engine that the fan pulley bracket won't fit, at least not without modification. I also discovered that the stock M103 AC compressor will not actually bolt into the front two mounting holes on the late M104 AC bracket so I am going to have to send back the M103 AC compressor I ordered and buy the M104 compressor yet again. Thankfully Amazon doesn't charge for shipping returns if you use an Amazon store.
Also I cannot tell you how much quicker you can get and engine stripped if you use a cordless impact. My Rigid 1/4 impact driver has plenty of torque for most of those bolts. I am going to have to remove the crank bolt, hopefully my Nitrocat can do that.
Tomorrow, I am helping my friend change the tie rods and brakes on his 89 Celica which he is going to lend me to drive while my car is being worked on. I am also going to send out my shifter to have it rebuilt and the levers lengthened to make the throw shorter.