5sfe Rebuild in progress (PICS)

[mikemustang289]

I'm in the process of Rebuilding a 5sfe for my 2000 Camry. Just thought I'd share some pics of the process. It's gonna be a few more weeks before the head is ready to put on. I happened to stumble across a complete motor that had a rod knock for $125. I had the crank turned .020 on the rod journals and polished the mains. Bought one used rod for the #3 piston and kept the original pistons. All it needed was a hone; the cylinders showed really no wear after 90K miles. But for some reason it spun a rod bearing. Most of the bearings were junk so that didn't surprise me.

[N35QU!K]

looks clean as hell, man, good luck with that rebuild

[JCamry94]

Re-build for performance?

[mikemustang289]

No, this car is a commuter. 70 miles a day, 6-7 days a week. I'm at a 150k but the motor currently in my car has a few probs; it needs valve seals and has had a slight knock since I've owned it for the last 30k miles. Plus I want to do the clutch. I figure I might as well fix it all at once rather than trying to attempt changing the head/clutch/rod bearings with the engine installed. I'll have no more than $1,500 in the rebuild including everything, even the cost of the engine. That's a lot cheaper than buying a new car in a few years.

[JCamry94]

Nice. The 5S is a tough performance platform to work with anyhow. You gotta document the tranny work big time! I'm gonna be swapping my auto in for a stick sometime this next year, and I know the handy work would be appreciated by others too. Good luck man

[barthmonster]

are you familiar with the balance-shafts that sit under the crank ?? (I'm not) Where are you getting bearings for those shafts or are you ??

[1996camry]

what you have the machine shop done the work for you (on your engine)?

does the machine shop know exactly what spec. has to be when they doing the work?

May you share your experience on machine shop... What do I need to look out or need to takecare the engine before I take directly to them to do the work...

do you have the manual that show all the specs...that tell you what the torque suppose to be in certain area(head, water pump, etc.)?

please share your experience...

[bigbird]

lookin good. good luck with it.

[frenum49]

Kudos on the build but if you are not building for performance why the tear down? Every yard around here has the 5sfe's for dirt cheap. Like the $200-$300 kind of dirt cheap. A few near the 100k mark and most with some kind of warranty.

[mikemustang289]

You should be able to get the bearings for the balance shafts direct from toyota. If you can find the part numbers (which will require some searching) you can order them online also. I'm not going to put the balance shafts back on this engine; from what I've read they're a waste of time and not really necessary. Plus, I don't have the special service tools to install it. The machine shop I went to had a database online of specs so they knew exactly what they were working with when I told them the year and model of engine. The factory Camry manual has all the torque specs but a Haynes manual also works fine.

[Turboman412]

the japan models dident even include the balance shafts

[96paseo]

That looks awesome!! Did you do the honing yourself?

[mikemustang289]

No, I let the machine shop do the honing. It's cheap enough that unless you have the tools to do it right, you're much better off letting the machine shop do the job. I looked into it and it's not something that can be done at home with the same level of accuracy. They only charged me $40 to hone it and $90 to turn the crank. They also honed the Rods which was another $30. That was basically all the machine work it needed.