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RAV-GT4 Forums Junkie Toymods member I supported Toymods Location: Rydalmere, NSW Registered: May 2002	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE Mon, 15 December 2003 05:40 hemi twofifteen turbo wrote on Sat, 13 December 2003 11:45 If you could move the rav 4 out of the garage, you'd have plenty of room to do the engine.. q's is, could you park rav on street? Or what about your parents house? -- grandparents? Or, have you considered using your living room/kitchen/bedroom? Once you've got the bare block down to bits, it's light enough for one person to easily carry.. You could assemble it indoors, then get 3 people to give you a hand to carry it outside again.. Not as hard as it seems, and also building an engine inside does have it's benefits. As for getting it in, if done right it's a 1 day job to have the engine in the car bolted to the box, and leave the electrical other accessories for later. Hoist hire can be as little as $35 a day, and if you find a place closed on sunday, hire it on saturday and return it on monday for the same price as 1 day. hope this helps. Thanks for the help here, but I don't have anywhere else to do this. All the grandparents are dead, the folks live up North (like 700+ km's away) and I can't take it into my place because I rent out a room from my flatmate whose apartment in total is no bigger than someone's loungeroom. Street parking is insanity, there's never anywhere to park it with 300+ other people living in the same apartment block. I'd take it round to my sister's place if she didn't live so far away from me, and the kids would have a field day with it too. On top of that, I enquired with both Miller's and Kennard's hire garages the other day and neither of these places will allow me to strip down an engine block on their premises (too much to clean up). So as you can see, I royally screwed, unless I can get some help from elsewhere. Don't worry, I'm rethinking my tactics here and a lot of what GEE120 (Gary) said to me the other day made sense. I'm probably a lot better off getting an engineer to rebuild this engine as it's gotta be properly balanced and everything before it can be put back together. That kind of expertise I don't have, nor can I afford to take the risk of something going haywire when it first starts up. I'm thinking more along the lines of getting the engine reinstalled into the RAV4 by a lot of ToyMods volunteers (show of hands please!) and saving on costs that way. I'll save myself anything between $2500 and $4000 for it to be reinstalled doing it this way, and I'll pay beer-money to those with their hands up for the job. [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Thu, 11 December 2003 22:14
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	bbaacchhyy	Thu, 11 December 2003 22:25
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Thu, 11 December 2003 22:57
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	Norbie	Thu, 11 December 2003 22:42
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	TurboRA28	Thu, 11 December 2003 22:59
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	spectral	Thu, 11 December 2003 23:39
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Fri, 12 December 2003 02:15
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RobST162	Fri, 12 December 2003 02:19
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Fri, 12 December 2003 02:42
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RobST162	Fri, 12 December 2003 03:14
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Fri, 12 December 2003 05:59
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	Toobs	Fri, 12 December 2003 07:25
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Fri, 12 December 2003 11:58
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	CrAiGzEE	Fri, 12 December 2003 12:21
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Fri, 12 December 2003 12:54
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RobST162	Fri, 12 December 2003 14:32
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Fri, 12 December 2003 23:12
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RobST162	Sat, 13 December 2003 00:20
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	hemi twofifteen turbo	Sat, 13 December 2003 00:45
	Re: Rebuilding 3S-GTE	RAV-GT4	Mon, 15 December 2003 05:40

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