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Day Three of Engine Removal
picked up this Two Ton Load Leveler from Harbor Freight (aka the Cheap Chinese Tool Store) for about $45 bones, its a step above their 3/4 ton yellow one, fingered I am pulling the engine with the boat anchor SM465 Muncie, might as well get this one man, the Harbor Freightians sure have a sense of humor, they give you the [single use] plastic red handle with a grade 3 bolt for this TWO TON jack, LOL, needless to say we mucked up the threads on that piece of junk on first use, other than the handle, the leveler held up, and no one Got Dead! |
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after disconnecting the drive shaft and the transmission from the cross member, we put the engine hoist and the new leveler to good use
we left the starter on and the oil filter, and maybe if we was to do it again we would have removed these two aparatie to prevent them from catching on the engine mounts |
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and we have Lift Off
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down boy, good boy!
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and this Divorce is Final
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always wanted to git an engine up on this type of engine stand like they do on all them TV shows and tear it down
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then it was time to commence with The Tear Down ceremonies
first the valve covers and the intake manifold came off, this revealed a decent leak proof set of beads on the Great Wall of China, both in the front and the rear of the block, nice |
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Off with his head!
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the lifter extraction proved to be a challenge - had to resort to vice grips and liberal use of PB Blaster to [ahem] persuade them out - fortunately we is replacing them with brand new ones
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the crank pulley came off next, which allowed us to pull off the harmonic balancer
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the timing cover was do to come off next, in hind sight, might be more better to remove the oil pan first as the bottom of the timing set cover has a lip that protrudes and overlaps the oil pan, oh well
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that revealed the timing set, and the chain which had way too much stretchability
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then I pulled out the camshaft, make sure you remove the fuel pump rod to allow it to slide out
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pulled the crank gear next
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removed the water/coolant plugs out of the block on each side, and nothing came out, had to poke in there with a small flat screw driver to get a decent waterfall
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dropped the oil pan, removed the oil filter and the starter and decided to call it a night
The Russian Judge rated the Fun Level at 9 for the evening, sighting that it was exhilarating yet messy |
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I know you mentioned you were doing a top end job, Do you plan to tear it down further?
May need cam bearings and I would look at the crank bearings. |
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I am just going to pretend all that is just good, ha ha |
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someone has done a timing chain change on that motor. gm used nylon coated upper gears for many years which ended up cracking.
my original chain was way more stretched than yours. |
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Fun! Only a level 9?! Lol that's a good feeling!
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I believe this is all original, the cam gear is very light I thought it was aluminum, but my buddy said its that nylon stuff, it's just really dirty that's all, maybe if I was to clean it up we could confirm for sure
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the general consensus among my self proclaimed "car expert" buddies is that this truck may have indeed only had 35,000 miles on it and not 135K or even 235K since it was a straight up farm truck, either way it don't matter now
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