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F my life I left the bolts in the torque converter. This will be the 3rd time pulling the motor back out. I woke up the morning out of sleep knowing I had left them in.. I must have had a dream about it. *laughs hysterically with a psychotic twinkle in the eyes* Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The #@$% thing is in there. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The water pump only has 15k miles on it. I would’ve loved to put a new oil pump on though.. I dropped the engine in last night per the FSMs procedure and failed miserably. Those exhaust manifolds make it a HUGE pain to maneuver the engine into place. It might be because I have the precats attached too. I remember having the precats on when I dropped this engine in the first time though.. I don’t know what the heck happened, I’ll have to get my bearings straight tonight. I will grab some straps from work also. There’s not much to attach to on the back side of the motor. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Coming along, she’s coming along :] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

+1 on the waterproof heat shrink. Also consider soldering the joints. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wooooooooh!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well for anyone who reads this in the future, I don’t believe the valve seals go all the way down. The exhaust seals definitely do not. Also, the metal jacket seals are for the intake. Why? I cannot possibly imagine why.. Metal jacketed seals are used for a much cooler application and the full rubber ones are used for a much hotter application? Anyways.... that was a bummer today. I have to go get seals tomorrow for $26! Dang it. Also the machine shop gashed the crap out of the heads... one place where the valve covers will be sealing and another on one of the exhaust manifold sealing surfaces. I knew I should’ve taken before pictures. I’m going to use silicone on the valve cover and hope for the best on the exhaust. Here’s the valve cover one after I filed it down and went over it with a honing stone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am destroying these valve stem seals.... how am I supposed to be installing these things. I’m on the intake side and they just don’t want to go down all the way. I’m using a 10mm socket to drive them but it destroys them each time (2 times so far.....) Please help. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m blowing all the oil passages out and there is a ton of metal from the machine shop all in these heads. I am worried I’m going to miss a piece or two and it’s going to wreck the motor. I know the metal that makes it back to the sump will be filtered out but not before hitting the oil pump. Kind of wishing I had just sanded these things by hand..... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lapping the valves in now! Exhaust valves look terrible.. I guess they were sealing though because this engine was running great before I killed it. Intakes look great. I’m lightly lapping them anyway. This is the stuff I use at work for the mating surfaces of our extrusion screws. I figure it’s at least as good as the stuff they sell at the parts store. I did buy some of the permatex stuff too.. the permatex is 180grt and this loctite stuff is 240grt. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am sure it would’ve been just fine but I am too scared of having to do this crap all over again. Haha! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That was the right decision. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m taking them to the machine shop. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I used one of my other heads as a guinea pig to see if hand surfacing was an option and I am almost certain it would work but I don’t like how shaky the whole thing was... and it took a ton of patience with the tiny little circles and almost an hour just to get what I got.. That’s the setup. I couldn’t find any long pieces of sandpaper today and I think I’d have to order it from McMaster anyway and it’d cost way too much. So on I went.. Before: After: I used 320grt paper and wetted it with water and a small amount of detergent. Then it was tiny circles because long movements back and forth were causing the sandpaper to buckle and the seams were catching. I mean dang... it actually looks to be good enough for me... I just can’t imagine having to do all of this all over again because I wanted to be cheap. What do y’all think? What would you do?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Before: After: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I keep seeing all these videos of people resurfacing their own cylinder heads and I feel like it’ll cost me close to the $90 the machine shop wants just to get a good setup to do it myself.. I was in the QA lab here at work last night using their super sharp tweezers to remove a splinter and I realized they have a giant Starrett Granite Surface Plate in there! I am going to secure some 400grit sandpaper to the plate and gently move the cylinder heads back and forth until they’re perfect. I also found the missing 15deg head for our pressure washer this morning. Looks like I might stay late tonight and get these bad boys ready to go! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am planning to use lacquer thinner and a pressure washer. We’ll see how it goes. [deleted for too much whining] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Man.. these things are so dirty. Before I killed this engine it was seeing 17mpg. My current engine was getting 12-14mpg. I’m not sure if my tires are playing that big a role or not but I did change to mud terrains right after the new engine. The new engines exhaust valves were scorched white and were very hard to clean. The valves I just removed from my old heads were fairly cleanish and were not scorched at all. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I looked into my old motor while I was robbing a bearing cap nut and I found this: And also: Definitely no good! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

They look amazing. So I dropped one of the bearing cap nuts and it literally vanished as soon as it hit the ground. I searched on my knees for two hours, rearranged every single part out there, even looked thru the grass surrounding the garage, and could not find the forsaken nut anywhere... My mind keeps telling me it must have fallen down inside the motor and became lodged.. however I heard it hit the ground. Very very frustrating. I have a magnetic tray so that this sort of thing doesn’t happen but I wasn’t using it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I took one bearing cap off and it literally looks brand new. Almost too new.. unless these things don’t wear over time until there is a problem. This engine was at 121K when I got it, I think. I was going to ask if I should even look at the mains or not since the rods look so good but I guess it’d be dumb not to just do it at this point.. I did find this though: And there’s no telling how bad it got before all this work. I have a feeling that all the crazy valve train noise I had that day may have been a clogged screen.. More pics coming Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hmmm.. well that’s strange. I wonder if it is a crack in the lower intake manifold that only opens up in certain conditions or something. I am interested to know what you end up finding. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I’m looking at my old engine block and there is no cylinder wall damage at all.. and I can turn the crank by hand. I remember when I got it home it would start and idle normally until it got up to normal temperature then it would screech and make these horrible high pitch grinding noises along with RPM dependent thuds and eventually seize and stop. Then I could let it cool down and break the crank free by bumping the starter a bunch and it would repeat the cycle. I have this rotten gross feeling inside that says all I would’ve had to do was change the bearings in the bottom of that motor, maybe polish or possibly grind the crank, and it would have been just fine............. I definitely should have taken that motor apart. ? Also the fire rings on my old engine’s head gasket are split in several places. I am wondering now if that is something that commonly happens when taking the heads off, those head gaskets were about to go themselves, or the stress of being severely hydrolocked was the cause.. This box is its home now.. a far cry from the adventurous vehicle it once powered. I feel like such a jerk.. poor thing. If there was a good way to make that motor into a powerhouse I’d take it home and give it a new duty. Or maybe even put it in a buggy or something. Anyways I won’t be working on anything for a couple days. My best friend who gave me a car to drive during all this has stage 4 cancer and I’m going down to see him in the hospital, they are finishing up his last bone marrow transplant and he has extreme cabin fever. His name is Calvin Weeks if you’re praying, remember Calvin. Then my daughters birthday is tomorrow and the weekend will be spent celebrating her. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Wow man that sucks and I hate it for you. I really do... what are you going to do? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I got it out but none of the bell housing bolts are long enough to attach to the engine stand. Not sure how I had two engines mounted before, I can’t even mount one now. Anyway I’ll be getting some bolts from work tomorrow. I’ll say.. this is all a lot more involved than I thought it was going to be. If I knew I was going to have to do all this crap then I would have taken the engine I drowned apart and fixed it. However I suspect there may have been cylinder wall damage on that block. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk