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I think you all are getting ahead of yourselves. First thing I would do is drain the oil and see if there is any water in the sump. If not, go ahead with Skylarks recs.
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Thanks mate. Just ordered the part from Amazon. It should arrive in 10days or so, hopefully I'll be close to firing it up thenHere's a link...
Did you check to see if the intake gaskets are leaking. They are very well known to do that. If that isn't the case, remove the heads, have a competent machine shop mag the heads, and surface the heads. Yes surface the heads if they are not cracked. Ask if the machine shop uses a CBN cutter on their surfacer. It will be a newer style machine. Surface finish is very important for head gasket longevity. While you are at it, install new valve seals(they come in the head set) and clean the deck surface of the block. The reason I suggest surfacing the heads is, a straight edge will not tell you if the head is twisted, a surface clean will. Also with that many miles, the areas around the bolt holes will protrude to the deck, surfacing removes that.I use the same app to read cmp retard.
Good advice. Problem is that there are two cmp retard PIDs on it and they are about 8 to 10 degrees different.
I had to check it when I did the intake on my other Sub, and it turned out to run just fine. Either mine is 4 degrees or 12 degrees. Either way, it's run just fine the past year so I'm not messing with it.
I would not have known you could swap the heads but that makes perfect sense lol.
Yeah I haven't looked for the price on a salvage 5.7, there aren't many of them around seemingly with decent mileage anymore. Since I've never pulled an engine, I'm a wee bit cautious of going that route since I'd have to mostly 1-man it. I have a few friends that can help but I'd have to be the one in the drivers seat. But, you guys here have helped me with a lot so I got that going for me.
I'm definitely not taking a loan out on something. I'm too Dave Ramsey for that lol, we don't drive far and I like having things that I can fix myself (sorta).
I'm thinking this is what I'm going to do. I don't drive far to work. At the very least I think I should pull the intake and swap the gasket, I still think this is where most of the fluid in the exhaust and oil is coming from. I picked up a Felpro intake gasket and a cheap alternator this evening.
I'll start pulling the intake tomorrow when I get off work.