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Help - Distributor install questions (devil is in the details)

97 Vortec 5.7 (K1500). Since all threads on distributor installation have only bits and pieces of proper installation, and non of them are "complete" as there are some rather important intricacies that always manage to get glossed over... I am asking for a few points of clarification (and let...
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- Dec 12, 2019
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Engine Performance + Maintenance
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Trouble installing harmonic balancer - it gets to the same spot and then binds

Cannot get past a certain spot on reseating my harmonic balancer -- it gets to the same spot (only halfway home) and just STOPS. All forward progress halts and it's either the installer bearing that is going to implode or I am going to commit the unpardonable sin of stripping out the crank...
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- Dec 7, 2019
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Engine Performance + Maintenance
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Help! - lower timing cover U-Seal. Impossible!

1997 K1500 5.7 -- conflicting information. Some say to use the old lip seal at the bottom of the timing cover (but mine is SWOLE and will not allow re-entry into that tight space (without removing oil pan). Shy of removing the oil pan (which I want to avoid at all costs), I want to be able to...
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- Dec 5, 2019
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Engine Performance + Maintenance