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lol as long as it seals and lasts for a year or so im happy |
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well i went to pick a part for a new head |
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| misk_one |
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well i got the head on and 99% all done |
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lol s**t! |
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I'm about to do my head gasket tomorrow. will be interesting to see if I get it done in a day.. I've done them before.. but that was xflow XC not one of the alloy heads.
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| frankieh |
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anyone know any good tricks for getting the bottom bolts on the intake manifold off when the engine is in the bay? I just striped my ratchet spanner trying to get one of the bottom middle ones.
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| phongus |
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Best is to remove the complete air filter assembly box if you haven't done so. Then just feed your hand with a ring/open ended spanner onto the bolts and basically do it all by touch. If not, jack the car up and work from underneath to get middles ones out. The rearward ones are the harder ones, but I assume you already got them out?
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| frankieh |
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yeah,, the ratchet spanner did those before it stripped..
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frankieh wrote: yeah,, the ratchet spanner did those before it stripped.. just went out and got a better one for 30 bucks form repco with a lifetime warranty.. if I strip this one I can just take it back. also got a bunch of different lengths of thin extensions for 5 bucks from supercr@p. giving it another go now. Crack the bolt open first with an open ender from the top, or a ring spanner. then use the ratchet spanner...especially if the BBM has never been removed before. phong =P~
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It's off... now onto the head itself.
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Very odd... I have both the gregories and the ford manuals here, and I was expecting all sorts of trouble getting the chain tensioner out...
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frankieh wrote: It's off... now onto the head itself. Took the rocker cover off and the whole lot is coated with white/brown water/oil also when I took one of the hoses off it shot water 15 foot even though it had only been running for about 20 seconds. Anyway, I took off the top chain guide bolt and took a look.. it's been snapped about 2 inches from the top from a very long time as the place where it is broken is old and not a new break. Funny thing is that it didn't make any rattles or anthing that I've heard.. not sure if It's worth worrying about.. might just put it back as it was before when I'm done. you're going to have fun cleaning the crapped out oil from the engine. Might want to replace the timing chain guides and chain while you are doing the head then...saves you trouble of doing it later on.. phong =P~
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| frankieh |
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I have two other good clean lowish km EL motors here..
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| frankieh |
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Got the head off... cyl 4 has a bit of water in it.. just a few mm.. but no rust or anything.. fairly clean.. no big lips on the bores, no glazing that I could see... head gasket was in a really bad way.. and was a composite...
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Yeah id say its normal to have crap inside the headbolt holes, if the gasket blew on that side hear the holes. Mine blew on the exhaust side and a few of the bolts on that side were rusted and were very tight, probably due to water/coolant leaking out into the holes and corroding. When i got the head off to clean it all up, chucked the airgun nozzle inside the holes and all the broken bits of rust and s**t came out |
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| frankieh |
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OK.. all is cleaned up now..
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| frankieh |
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Incidentally, to all falcons have double valve springs?
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| TROYMAN |
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yep.. except el hybrid and au...
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| frankieh |
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Cool, thankyou mr Troyman...
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