Session 4

Alternator - PB Blaster overnight on mounts, and an oversized socket over the one on block side. One good tap and it broke loose.

All bolts (1/2 inch or 13 mm) removed from intake, and coil packs removed on bracket.

Intake won't budge, time to remove valve covers. 8mm 12 point skinny socket no where to be found, hiding with Elvis, have the 6 and 10 mm I bought at same time. Will pickup another up today.

What they say about loose rear intake bolts must be true, the one under the fuel pressure regulator was barely finger tight.

 

defiantly true, i think over 4 bolts on my dads truck were finger tight, no doubt causing the gasket to leak. Funny how it seems to be always the rear most ones.
Hopefully a bit of loctite stops the issue from happening again.

good luck with your project!

 

You can use a 12pt SAE instead of the 8mm. 9/32" I think?

 

A 12pt 5/16 in socket fits best.

 

That's the one.

 

Well, a trip to Lowes (50 miles round trip) and the 8mm works. I don't have 12 points in SAE that small, should look into that. 1/10 of the tools I own are now scattered in back of the Disco. Got one valve cover loose, the other VC still holds the lower intake in place, I can pry upward and just get coolant to seep around valley gasket, I have all 12 polts out of the intake.

Tropical storm conditions approaching, rain good now, shut down for the day.

 

you can pry real easy against the heads to pop the intake it may take a pry on each side at same time I mean real easy do not want to f up the heads where the valve cover meets, someone else may have a better sugestion but it worked for us

don't foirget a good 16mm for the head bolts and long *** breaker bar

 

Yep on the slow and easy. PO may have re-sealed with who knows what. Rain should be gone by morning. The joys of shade tree work in the great outdoors, with all the skeeterz your blood can support. I heard two talking the other day, deciding if they wuz gonna eat me now or carry me back home so they could have a snack later.

 

That looks like the birds we get in minny

 

Gaskets arrived yesterday from AutohausAZ. Complete set, sealed up, but don't open if you might return. Reinz is part of Dana, a world wide player in vehicle and industrial applications. These parts are from Germany, even have a hologram logo shrink wrapped. Wouldn't want knock offs from land of the panda. And yes, OEM are available, even at a slightly better price. But, if OEM was that good, we wouldn't be buying these now....

Was shipped in a much larger and well packed box to prevent bending during warehouse foozeball.