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Freshly hot-tanked and decked head for a Toyota 1AZ-FE, 2001 Rav4 (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Radiator end tank exploded about 2 months ago and it overheated. It then blew the head gasket a month after that, likely cause by the radiator failure. Yanked it all apart in one weekend, putting it back together this weekend. All new top end gaskets. For 230k miles the inside of this engine is spotless.

Except O'Reilly gave us a head bolt kit that only had 7 out of 10 bolts...

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah. Having a professional machine shop deck your head and hot tank it makes reassembly so, so much easier. No more smearing grease everywhere. And guaranteed head gasket seal.