theres a first time for everything *rant* Reply #30 – November 15, 2016, 03:06:30 PM Pipe wrench worked. Cleaned up gasket surfaces and pulled a head bolt out of my other motor. Head seemed to be flat. Decided I am going to leave the passenger head on and just do the drivers.My harbor freight torque wrench didnt work brand new out of the box. Set it to 50lbs just to get everything snug then set a final torque and it didnt click. Backed it down to 20lbs and it didnt click either. Set it down and while it was sitting there it clicked all by itself.Gonna run to autozone and try to borrow one quickly before I run out of day light. Quote Selected
theres a first time for everything *rant* Reply #31 – November 16, 2016, 08:02:53 PM Head gaskets done, well sorta.Timing is a bit off still and I didnt even bother checking plug wires when I through it all together. Runs fine, more power thrb before, but not quite where it should be. Just gotta mess with the timing. I also deleted the smog pump, need to cap off vacuum lines still so its ideling.a bit high, but all things considered, I am shocked it fired right up and I have no real problems and its driving okay. Need to get some antifreeze in it, supposed to snow tonight. I also left off the smog port thingy on the back of the heads. I could only find one bolt so I just continued on and forgot all about it till I fired it up. When it stops raining/snowing ill get the little stuff all buttoned up and be done with it. Quote Selected
theres a first time for everything *rant* Reply #32 – November 16, 2016, 09:17:25 PM Quote from: Haystack;457908 Set it down and while it was sitting there it clicked all by itself.sounds like the way stuff happens around there! Quote Selected
theres a first time for everything *rant* Reply #33 – November 16, 2016, 09:20:12 PM Quote from: Haystack;457974 I also left off the smog port thingy on the back of the heads.well that kinda sux ass berries! thats gonna be kinda hard to fugger with now that its all buttoned up. Quote Selected
theres a first time for everything *rant* Reply #34 – November 17, 2016, 12:21:28 AM Well the pipe was broken before the check valve anyways, so im not much worse off. Just got done with a quick 30 mile shakedown drive, just in time for the snow to hit. Glad I got done what I did. About 3" on the grass, hasnt stuck to the roads yet, but I got it done just in time.Just gotta mess with timing and that smog port thingy, and ill be pretty happy. Dumped half a gallon of 50/50 mix in it, its only supposed to get down to 32, but we are 4700' above sea level. Im happy for now. Quote Selected
theres a first time for everything *rant* Reply #35 – November 20, 2016, 03:15:40 AM Been doing pizza delivery for the last two days. No coolant leak so far.When I get a day off, possibly wednesday or turkey day, I will buy the bolts to plug up the smog ports and the injection port on the stock exhaust and play with the timing, get that set right. Its pretty close, but it's still running a bit rough.Other then that, car starts every time, not leaking coolant and will actually bark the tires from a stop, so it is much better then it was.Pretty soon ill start messing with the little things, like the tach and speedo that comes and goes. Everything else seems to work. Quote Selected
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