Last post by Chuck W -
Limited time the past few days, but I did get a little time today to get the valve covers, distributor, and injectors installed.
Other than the rear main seal, the engine is ready to drop back in. The only other item that needs to be tended to is to replace the trans filter. Hopefully next weekend I'll have some time to get that accomplished.
Last post by V8Demon -
I'm looking for the part number for the temperature sensor that goes in the heater core lines on EATC equipped cars. From what I can find the middle portion of the number is 10b843. I've tried just about every combination I can think of to find the original part number but I've come up empty-handed so far. A photo of the diagram of the switching question should be attached to this post. Thanks for looking.
Last post by Aerocoupe -
Looking good Chuck! Talk about a huge change under the hood and it should be a good power plant until you decide to do something else or not.
Last post by Chuck W -
Stopped and picked up some oil on the way home from work. Dumped 5 quarts into the engine and primed up the oil system.
The #8 intake took quite a bit longer than the rest to finally flow oil.
I picked up an FL-1A filter as well, but I think I'm going to run on that MANN filter I put on to paint things for a short bit, then change it out. The MANN is a quality filter, even though this one is shorter than the FL-1A . (It's the same size as the ones used on the 2.3T turbo cars, though). Gonna run it for a couple hundred miles, then pull it and install the FL-1A.
Then I grabbed a few more parts and got them installed.
Gotta clean up the valve covers, then they get put back on. Also going to stick the distributor in it.
Last post by Chuck W -
Was able to squeeze in a little work around everything else this weekend.
I'd attempted the install of the new AOD front seal, but I managed to slightly damage it on the install, so I opted to buy another. This time I printed up an install tool, to avoid any issues.
This evening I had a little time, so I thought I'd at least get the PS pump rebuilt.
Compressing the unit to get the big c-clip out to release the valve cover.
All of the guts. That cam assembly on the left with the shaft came apart on me during reassembly---. Had to fight all 10 of the springs and "slippers" back into place. Pretty easy to push that all apart when you're trying to get it installed and the shaft pushed through the new shaft seal.
Aside from the 1 fumble, it all went together pretty quickly, and I wrapped it up just after dinner.
All of the internal o-rings and that shaft seal were pretty stiff and obviously not doing their job.
Last post by Aerocoupe -
I want to say that what hits the valve cover is the throttle body linkage as it is directly over the valve cover. If you remove the EGR spacer then it move the throttle body in far enough that I think it may clear. Easiest way to know is to mock everything up.
I did a little looking around and found that Mike has valve covers similar to what you are going to run so check this thread out:
Looking ahead at 3 busy weekends in a row coming up. I'll have time to get things ready to drop in, but probably won't have time to stuff the engine/trans back in until after that.
Am I correct in remembering that the upper intake won't clear the PBF valve covers I have on the engine? May have to add a spacer, if so. I know there were certain covers that were kind of tall and interfered. I haven't messed with a port injected EFI 5.0 set-up before.
Last post by Aerocoupe -
Looking more and more like a non-leaking motor. Is the provision for a mechanical pump on the timing cover functional? I’ve seen where they are there but cast closed so was just curious. Hopefully that makes sense.
