Day two began a little late as we were pooped from working on my truck. Earlier that day my buddies ended up pulling the motor out of an 88 one of them had bought the previous night. So one motor pulled and stripped and another half way apart whooped them out. I did most of the parts pulling on mine so I was beat as well after working around the house all day.
We had two bolts left on the drivers manifold. well what was left of it at least. After a trip for propane for the heater and some other supplies we were back at it around noon. Gave up on wrenching on it or attempting to. A little convincing with the map gas hot wrench and a strong set of vise grips got the front one out. Disconnected the EGR tube from the intake. A few bends and we snapped the rest off the exhaust manifold for some more working room. Hot wrench went on the back bolt for a bit and it wouldn't budge. 3/4 rounded off. Was not looking good. Being the last bolt I smacked the manifold with a hammer and it rotated a little! Few more hits and I had more space to work with. More heat and a pair of pliers got it moving freely. The battle was won! Both manifolds came off with no more broken bolts! Next was the upper intake, valve covers, lower intake and finally the heads! She's tucked into my buddy's garage without a hood and rags over the motor.
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This is just ugly. The heads are fairly clean valve train wise. Thanks to my running full synthetic the past five years she's cleaned up a ton. Valve covers were spotless. No milky moisture pockets and no grime at all. I ram my finger inside and I got nothing but clean oil on my fingers. This engine has 252 and some change on the odometer with nothing but intake gaskets. Having it that clean just made my day.
The intake on the other hand is just morbid. It's like a mascara bomb went off in there. If it wasn't for the gasket surfaces being shiny aluminum I would have thought it was just plastic. It's BAD. I made the decision that The EGR will never ever be hooked up ever again. Ever. The valve seals will be coming with the fel-pro gasket kit. I ordered ARP head bolts today. Depending on the tax return I may get cats and sensors then. Until that happens I'm getting new flanges on my pipes and I'm knocking out my convertors for better flow. AEM dry flow filter will be spec'd and ordered tomorrow. Intake and heads are going to performance engineering tomorrow as well to be cleaned up, checked and have valve seals installed.
Thanks to Crew Cab Steve if I get the all clear that The heads are good I may do a set of 1.6 rockers for more lift and power. Apparently it's not a bunch more but for the cost, the claims of up to 30hp seems worth it. All depends where the budget is. I'll probably end up getting push rods if my current ones don't clean up to my standards. They all drained a ton of oil but they got alot of crud on them. May try to clean off the piston tops tomorrow as well. It'll be cleaning and planning day. Vacuum out all the junk from the tear down, degrease what I can see, and cover it back up.
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Way easier to change oil this way. You can get right to the filter. Only about a days worth of work. You can even do head gaskets while you're in there!
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