Hey guys.. So I just wanna start off saying my Celica experience has kinda sucked recently.
I bought a manual 2001 celica GTS (145k miles) about 6 weeks ago for $3200. The car was fine for about a week, and then I started hearing a squeal when the clutch was depressed. Diagnosed it, and it's the throwout bearing squeaking. 2 weeks later I was on my way to school and my car broke down. I was switching from 2nd to 3rd and my car was giving VERY little power (My friend thought I shifted into 5th the power was so weak) and when I came to a stop the car was jiggling and everything. I turned it off and had it towed to my friends dad's shop. They ran a compression test and saw cylinder 1 had 0 compression and put a camera down the sparkplug hole and saw the intake valve was stuck open. My friend and I went to take off the cylinder head, and as soon as we took off the valve cover, we saw literally, the valve spring retainer popped off and the spring was off and everything (and that 1 valve was bent) . I just had the head-rebuilt with MWR and BC parts. I noticed these little caps ontop of the valve stem and retainer (Which just popped off) but didn't take note of these at the time. I lost one, and the machine shop told me they didnt have it nor could they find it. I went on toyotacelica forums and determined that these caps are called "Lash caps" or "Valve stem shim caps" and they're ment to adjust the gap between the valve stem and the rocker arm. Well, they make about 1000 different sizes for these valve stem caps. I looked up all the adjustment guides and I just want to give up. So far, i've done all the labor taking the head off and even got a discount on the head rebuild (Had my friends dad take it in and got a mechanic discount.)
I have about $350 in parts and $250 in machine shop labor.
I guess what my final question is do I NEED these shims? Or since the valve is new, is there 1 size that will fit on a new valve with no wear? or would it be better take take off all of the valve shims / caps and run it like that?
I bought a manual 2001 celica GTS (145k miles) about 6 weeks ago for $3200. The car was fine for about a week, and then I started hearing a squeal when the clutch was depressed. Diagnosed it, and it's the throwout bearing squeaking. 2 weeks later I was on my way to school and my car broke down. I was switching from 2nd to 3rd and my car was giving VERY little power (My friend thought I shifted into 5th the power was so weak) and when I came to a stop the car was jiggling and everything. I turned it off and had it towed to my friends dad's shop. They ran a compression test and saw cylinder 1 had 0 compression and put a camera down the sparkplug hole and saw the intake valve was stuck open. My friend and I went to take off the cylinder head, and as soon as we took off the valve cover, we saw literally, the valve spring retainer popped off and the spring was off and everything (and that 1 valve was bent) . I just had the head-rebuilt with MWR and BC parts. I noticed these little caps ontop of the valve stem and retainer (Which just popped off) but didn't take note of these at the time. I lost one, and the machine shop told me they didnt have it nor could they find it. I went on toyotacelica forums and determined that these caps are called "Lash caps" or "Valve stem shim caps" and they're ment to adjust the gap between the valve stem and the rocker arm. Well, they make about 1000 different sizes for these valve stem caps. I looked up all the adjustment guides and I just want to give up. So far, i've done all the labor taking the head off and even got a discount on the head rebuild (Had my friends dad take it in and got a mechanic discount.)
I have about $350 in parts and $250 in machine shop labor.
I guess what my final question is do I NEED these shims? Or since the valve is new, is there 1 size that will fit on a new valve with no wear? or would it be better take take off all of the valve shims / caps and run it like that?