Long weekend project
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The valley is leaking oil, and I'm pretty sure the coolant leak was from the right rear of the valley as the gasket was deteriorated at the rear water jacket.
I called it a day after the first 90° torque as it was already 7pm. I spent way too much time on the phone with parts stores trying to get my power steering pump warrantied, and finding crucifix seals for when I do the oil pan. I am 95% sure I pre-ordered the crucifix seals and put them with all of the other parts for this job, but when I opened the boxes I couldn't find them. They are probably at my house 100 miles away. Luckily, the local Carquest can get them from Worldpac by Tuesday morning, so I should be good.
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Sorry for no pics today. Long day. Started the day with the final 90° torque on the bolts. Then decided to redo all of the plastic loom on the engine harness, and use dielectric grease on every plug (which meant unplugging the crank sensor behind the engine and the O2 sensor which I had just plugged in, so I could grease them). Then came the front cover degreasing before the timing chain, oil pump, timing gasket tomorrow. I did find what I have found to be the best engine degreaser I have ever used: Simple Green oven & BBQ cleaner. Spray it on, it foams up, use a brass brush gently, and then brake clean it off. I now have bare aluminum. Going to have to use Worldpac through Carquest to get two seals that did not come with the head gasket set, by Tuesday morning: the heater pipe o-ring, and the water inlet o-ring. Since you have to remove both pipes to get the intake off in order to take the heads off, shouldn't those o-rings come with the head set??!!
I will be sure to take pics of the clean front cover tomorrow.
I will be sure to take pics of the clean front cover tomorrow.
Last edited by lordmorpheus; 08-11-2019 at 10:44 PM.
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