Nutz About Bolts Prius Maintenance Videos

that’s good to know, hopefully they do light resurfacing and not a lot of shaving. Will let you all know when it’s put back together lol.

as for the brake booster, I’ll tackle that when the time comes, like this headgasket lol.

I had the cold start knocking about 80k miles ago, only this time, it caused misfire and coolant leak. So when you do get the first symptom, you’ll likely need a new HG in the future.

I did have a partner to film with but we live too far apart and so it didn’t work out

 

So out of all the gasket and o-ring left, I’m stumped on where this o-ring goes.

I think it may be the ECT sensor o-ring, but my old head has a welded gasket on the side, the new head doesn’t have a welded gasket sticking out, it’s flushed. So I assume this o-ring is for the ECT sensor, what do you guys think???

EDIT: ok after checking, it might be it

 

Some documentation from Toyota would be nice. Always puzzles me: they put together this kit, and all the pieces have a part number and purpose, so why the heck not tag each item with those two bits of info, plus a summary sheet.

 

What was the issue when I got my kit. Figuring out which gasket goes where apart from obvious ones like valve cover, intake, timing chain tensioner. There were a lot where I had to hunt and figure out what went where.

 

don’t worry, I got you! I’m filming and will be showing you where all the gaskets and o-rings are located at.

It looks intimidating at first, but it isn’t so bad. I do agree they should’ve listed the names of each gaskets and o-rings.

 

Disregard that o-ring for the ect sensor, I believe that o-ring was for the oil dip stick tube. The ect sensor has a metal flat gasket on it. Gotta go to Toyota and get one tomorrow.

edit: my old copper gasket was stuck onto the head. lol make sure you guys remove it if it is.

 

Just finished the headgasket install. No misfire, running clean.

time to edit the videos

 

Yeah, but think how nice it will be to get to 100,000 subs......

 

I’m still waiting for the 100k sub plaque

 

Wellll, that was easy wasn't it?

 

it was I was working on the car from 9am-2pm for 9 days or so. Filming and cleaning everything took most of the time, if I was just going to replace the 2 o-rings on top of the camshaft housing and the 2 o-rings on the left side of the head and 1 on the block, everything would’ve been faster.

I replaced all the o-rings, gaskets and oil seals. Good thing I didn’t have to work on the head valve train, or else that’ll add more hours to this job

Overall, I wouldn’t mind doing it again, with out filming it, glad I got that out of the way.

 

I mean, if you had to do it again and got stuck some where, I'm sure there would be a Nuts about Bolts video that could help you out.

 

True true.