Plus here in the east not only do they give you itchy, annoying bites they can kill you too. So awesome. Something so tiny and so omnipresent can also give you a potentially deadly virus with no treatment.

 

X2 on the West Nile virus. Savannah has their own mosquito control air force with helicopters and fixed wing spray planes. Larvacide is applied over large areas. Small chickens are kept in cages hoisted up in the trees around the county, blood is sampled and tested for the virus. I think they use Auracanas chickens. The harbor dredging builds large mounds of silt, which crack open and form little fissues ideal for rain water and skeeter eggs. Those get sprayed frequently.



Session five - cut short by tail end of tropical storm rain - 20 minutes a day is dragging along.

Got valve cover off. Note baffle inside, suspect that has heavy gunk behind it blocking PCV. Found my valve cover spacer (you see that missing in one pix). Valve train is super sludge. Note the oil drains are pretty blocked up. My mechanical oil PSI test showed 44 PSI warm and revved up, just can't drain back very fast.

So - all the oil changes (Rotella), oil supplements (MMO, BG), etc., - they have an uphill battle against PO indifference. I've taken what I thought was good care since I bought it. Hard too reverse 10 plus years of neglect by PO.

Suspect that most high milers with multiple owners will look similar.

Can't wait for rain to end so I can get back to it.

 

wow that sucks lots of clean and degreasing there, now I'm kind of glad I pulled mine apart the 80k. on your intake do you think if you pulled the t-stat housing you could get leverage by putting pipe or wood handle in there and lifting up.

 

buzz so far yours pretty much looks like mine did maybe a little worse? hard to tell, the po had cut and bent away the valve cover shield under the oil fill on mine

I have not had many cast iron V8 open that looked as bad as these inside unless the owner rarely changed the oil

 

Well, it is a known fact that I'm skeered of the dark, and it is dark inside the motor. The more I "Discover" the more I wonder at what point it is time to cut and run, etc. I'm going to take that VC apart, to see what sort of sludge collector is behind there. I suspect my cleaning attemps so far have solvented some of the gunk, maybe just kept it running.

 

Hot Tank. Let the machine shop make it all pretty for you.

By the way, the virus I was refering to is Eastern Equine Encephalitis or EEE. Even if you survive, you are likely to end up with brain damage. Of course, then you will have something to blame your decision to buy a Land Rover on.

 

My horse barn friends don't like that one either. Offspring has no fear on a quarter horse.. but should.

 

Session 5 1/2 after rain delay.

Got second valve cover off, more of the same gunk, the two lip seals, and intake. Pix of split lip seals. Valley pan gasket firmly glued to intake, will have to what they used.

And confirmation of this being a path already walked. Look at the color of the heads just above the gasket line when viewed from the valley side. Looks like a PO slapped some boneyard heads on there, the burnt oil colors don't match.

 

buzz, now that you point out the oil stain differences, I looked at my pics and think same was done on mine

 

Or it could be old heads were tanked and cleaned, re-installed, and have not turned grime yet. But I wonder why the area under VC looks so bad. Going to take the VC baffle apart to see if plugged behind.

Turns out it wasn't plugged. But the PCV fitting only has a small semi-circle of open area, would not be hard to clog, some carb spray from time to time would be a good idea. Gaskets had some flex but split easily. Not stiff enough to stand in the corner on their own.

SWMBO asked at dinner tonight how long before I finish the truck.....