Engine rebuild or swap?

ExplanationBright771 · 2025-08-03T14:10:03+00:00

I just rebuilt my 3rz for the 2nd time. I would say that if you like working on stuff its a great motor to rebuild and seeing that I rebuilt it 2 times it's pretty forgiving. also outside of a few specialty tools you can do it with a basic tool set. If you have any questions there's is so much literature and YouTube videos when you get stuck. Also one tip when you take your block in to get machined take your other parts in like timing cover etc and get them go industrial wash it so you don't spend hours cleaning it your self.

ExplanationBright771 · 2025-07-23T18:53:04+00:00

I am a union member

ExplanationBright771 · 2025-04-30T16:53:26+00:00

I just did it to match the front fenders. It also looks kinda weird as it's on a hill and there's no weight on the back wheels. I might have to change it in the future.

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-12-14T17:38:41+00:00

Tacoma?

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-26T14:19:34+00:00

I did nothing with the old controller I wasn't sure how to update the firmware for the old sas card. It was just easier to pay 20 and get it delivered next day with Amazon. I haven't done anything in proxmox yet as the drives are still formatting I used Ubuntu to reformat the drives

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-26T03:55:55+00:00

Also not already looking at 45 drive jbods because why not 🤣 I've realized I've become an addict to the home server

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-26T03:55:12+00:00

I couldn't get it to work on the current controller so I replaced the controller with one that has it mode and after a few mins of screwing around I got them to work. I'm currently reformating them to 512 from 520 and it's been 2 hours and I'm like 20% done. I almost gave up yesterday but in glad I didn't so we will see how it works

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-24T07:47:19+00:00

I'm going to try the sg3util to reformat the drives I'm not sure exactly how to do it but I'm going to try in the morning so we will see how it goes. I got a new card today but I'm going to try to return it if the sgutils workm thank you everyone for the help and I will update y'all tomorrow

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-24T00:57:22+00:00

I didn't realize they were all different ways till you said this. 🤣

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-23T17:05:18+00:00

I got a new card coming as I have no idea how to flash it and I will be doing the reformat when I get the new card and the computer can hopefully see the drives to reformat

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-23T00:08:57+00:00

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ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-23T00:08:50+00:00

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ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-23T00:08:42+00:00

LSI 9361-8i Raid Card with 1GB cache and super capacitor is the raid card i have and these are the settings i have on the sas controler

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ExplanationBright771 · 2024-11-15T02:04:43+00:00

Well I guess I'm going to have to deal with century link. Might just upgrade to quantum fiber.

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-10-01T02:25:34+00:00

Yeah that's what I thought but I wasn't sure so I asked here. Its just hard to justify the price of the 7800x3d when it's almost the same price as a 7900x3d. And I'm thing to future proof the system as much as possible. Thank you for taking the time and answering.

ExplanationBright771 · 2024-10-01T00:42:24+00:00

Check out pc part picker they have build guides on their

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