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01-25-2015, 10:48 PM | #1 |
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with everything out of the way we are ready to lift out the intake manifold
does everyone appreciate the 40 years of dirt and grime on top of that thing, I bet that's 5lbs more I'll have to lift a gentle pry with a wide flat screw driver and the seal is broken, and we are good for lift off |
01-25-2015, 10:52 PM | #2 |
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here she is out of the car, man that thing was heavy - 40 lbs I'm guessing
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01-25-2015, 10:55 PM | #3 |
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ok lets see the valley of the lifters and push rods
here you go, time to clean this place up |
01-25-2015, 10:57 PM | #4 |
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ok, so that only took half a day, including sweeping the garage, and I am still sore from dead lifting the truck bed yesterday, so I think it's time for a nap!
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01-25-2015, 11:02 PM | #5 |
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More good progress! I always hate doing an intake while its in the truck. I can never get a good seal on the end rails reaching over the fenders. Hope yours turns out great!
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01-26-2015, 02:46 AM | #6 |
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Nice progress! Love the updates with pics.
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01-27-2015, 12:37 AM | #7 |
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01-26-2015, 05:36 PM | #8 |
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Making progress!
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01-26-2015, 06:56 PM | #9 |
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Thanks for all your efforts to document this process so well, with descriptions, humor, and photos. This will be handy for my son and I one day.
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01-26-2015, 08:46 PM | #10 |
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X2. I enjoy following this thread.
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01-27-2015, 12:40 AM | #11 |
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01-27-2015, 12:55 AM | #13 |
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well my day started out with cleaning and spinning my wheels
first I removed the hard fuel line to get better access to things |
01-27-2015, 12:59 AM | #14 |
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then I took some more pics of the old OEM intake manifold realizing I done never flipped it on it's back to take a pic of it's there belly
now if you look close you might could just see how the EGR port is all carbon dipossited shut right there in the middle of it, completely shut to the point of ineffectiveness |
01-27-2015, 01:05 AM | #15 |
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so here are some before and after pics of the cleaned lifter valley (wish they turned out better - my garage faces West and the sun shines right on my back and cast shadows over the engine bay, poor me a river! right)
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01-27-2015, 01:09 AM | #16 |
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again nothing to write home about but for now it will do (the plan is to come into some aluminuminum heads come fall - complements of the Curse Jar, hee hee)
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01-27-2015, 01:15 AM | #17 |
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figure one more point of view of this gutter since it's not like we can admire it none once it's all sealed up
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01-27-2015, 01:18 AM | #18 |
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ok this is what we are working for, out with the old and in with the new
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01-27-2015, 01:21 AM | #19 |
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You did an excellent job of crud removal !! That wasn't easy I know. Kudos
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I literally chisled the cross/bypass ports in the cylinder heads (what I call the EGR ports) open, they were completely welded shut with carbon deposits, or what I can only imagine is carbon |
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01-27-2015, 01:31 AM | #21 |
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Re: Restoring Rusty - Intake Manifold
I want to point out something to you that I learned
the new aluminum intake manifold is thinner than the old one, at the pint where the bolts go one is 1/16 of an inch thicker if not a bit more also I am not planning on putting on the bracket back on so I noticed that those bolts were an inch and a quarter and the other ones were inch and an eighth also some of the bolts don't screw all the way in the two that surprised me were the bolt above the #4 exhaust port (third bolt in the passenger side head) it interferes with the exhaust push rod and the bolt above the #5 intake port (fourth bolt in the driver side head) it inteferes with the intake push rod |
01-27-2015, 01:33 AM | #22 |
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now maybe with the gasket and a prayer these components would never meet, but that was a chance I was not willing to take, so I picked up some shorter 3/8th grade 5 bolts, only one inch long and some washers to remedy this situation, I used these in these two places plus on all the outer corners as those bolts bottom out (blind I guess it is called)
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01-27-2015, 01:35 AM | #23 |
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Excellent info , and something to watch for doing swaps !
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01-27-2015, 04:41 AM | #25 |
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Awesome! While I am partial to the old quadrajets for daily driver rides, that carb does look quite at home up there.
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