Get-the-supra-running-day

[CaptainHenreh]

I just don't have the money.

Take it to Dale Engineering if needed, they're cheap

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Considering how long I'm considering keeping the Supra in dry-dock, maybe I will just go ahead and get everything machined.

Anyway, the head won't come off. All the bolts are out, nothing holding the head down but JDM Toyota Turbo Voodoo.

Seriously, this isn't a joke. We used a slide hammer, we ran a metal pole through a chain and had dave and I do squat thrusts against the chain. We've rocked it back and forth, we slammed the intake manifold with a broomstick and a sledgehammer. We've rocked the head, we cranked with the bolts out hoping compression pressure would knock the head off. We put oil in the cylinders and hand-turned the engine hoping it would push the head off, or just freaking loosen the thing so we could take it off.

No. Fucking. Dice.
All of this trouble to break...nothing loose. We're sure there's a dowel in there someplace, maybe that hasn't been broken loose since it left the factory, and it's just being difficult.

So we're thinking John Deere now. I really wanted to avoid that. I'm gonna try a rubber mallot first, slam it against the intake manifold, hoping to jar it loose. Then we'll have Green give it a shot.