Today.....was not a good day (pics)

[Vortec Lover]

It is a 5.7 Vortec

 

[96-1500]

Its great excuse to put vortec heads on it.

However it would be a great excuse to do head and intake gaskets, just for fun

 

[Vortec Lover]

However it would be a great excuse to do head and intake gaskets, just for fun

never heard of that one, haha

 

[96-1500]

never heard of that one, haha

Heh, well I figure the truck has 255'000 kms on it (158'000 miles, for our Yankee friends) and I don't know if either have been replaced. I doubt it.

 

[Darkrider]

Perfect excuse to pull the heads from your old K1500, check them out to see what condition they are in and as you said redo the top end gaskets using the heads from the K1500 engine.

 

[GMstrong]

my bad,had tbi on my mind.

 

[gnrl]

Chalk one up for pulling the head. I've tried to do a live helicoil on a head once (younger and stupider), where I tried real hard to get all the shavings out was diligent about this and that. Still, turns out so many shavings got in there that they jamed the valves and bent them when I tried to start it.

So the head had to come off anyway...PLUS now it needed new valves and a valve job.

There may be many formulas for a job to go to "hell in a handbasket", one of them surely is metal shavings + precision parts.

 

[Vortec Lover]

iirc, he got it running just fine- not sure how clean he was about it, but the old girl is going, haha

 

[96-1500]

Chalk one up for pulling the head. I've tried to do a live helicoil on a head once (younger and stupider), where I tried real hard to get all the shavings out was diligent about this and that. Still, turns out so many shavings got in there that they jamed the valves and bent them when I tried to start it.

So the head had to come off anyway...PLUS now it needed new valves and a valve job.

There may be many formulas for a job to go to "hell in a handbasket", one of them surely is metal shavings + precision parts.

iirc, he got it running just fine- not sure how clean he was about it, but the old girl is going, haha

Thanks for the input. And yes, Charles is right, I got 'er going. I cleaned up the threads my way and installed a new set of delcos. Working the very best.