Removed most of the rust and crud from the groove.
And then lubricated the rubber seal with silicone grease. This should be more than enough to seal the water pump.
Brand new timing belt pulley. Looks gear-ish.
…and then water pump and some timing belt related stuff. This was probably my mistake, but I have two of these pointy tensioner pulley bolts 🙂
A quick head gasket test. It’s cometic 0.75mm (.030″) thick.
Brains work in mysterious ways. At this point I suddenly got a spooky thought that the TTT pulleys were for different kind 4A engine. Almost ran to get the pulleys.
Everything did line up perfectly, so fuck my brains.
Glorious golden pulleys! Woooooo! 😀
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