Recent content by jmanscotch

This, to me, was the most critical part of the whole job. It really sucks to find out you pinched the o-ring and you have to immediately do the job again. Granted, it’s notably easier to do it the second time as it’s all fresh in your head, but man is it a mental blow. Glad the thread is...

Well done and cheers bud!

Good notes and nicely done!

If I recall, the 10MM bolt goes through the wiring harness hard plastic and then through a bracket for the fuel crossover pipe, so yeah, it holds both on and needs removed otherwise the wire loom will remain attached to the intake manifold.

Ahh gotcha. I used a short socket on an extension to back that bolt out and then used a magnet on a stick to grab it and retrieve it. If you’re using a socket and don’t have a magnet, I’ve used something like electrical or painters tape over the open end of the socket and then press the socket...

Have you broke the intake manifold free from the seal it has with the head? If not, it’s got a decent little hold on it and might be just holding on through normal gasket friction. Just a thought I figured I’d mention….though I’m guessing that’s not you’re issue.

Well, did you get it figured out?

The part number is for an individual gasket, you will need two of them, they are identical gaskets just flipped in orientation for installation.

Yeah, just wedge a screw driver or pry tool on there, being careful about what you pry against, and force the wire loom off. If I recall, the bolt is more accessible with the wire loom loose, at least it’s a slightly easier target, it’ll still be hard to get to and tricky to unscrew.

I put some sticky padding on the bottom of mine and then shoved it up against the windshield 😂. The sticky tape wouldn’t hold it from an adhesion standpoint, but the combination of the shoving it up against the windshield AND the sticky tape would hold it (mostly) in place. Routed the wires two...

Unless it’s dangerously low, the leak shouldn’t cause any actual cooling system performance issues (like overheating). Mine surely didn’t either, just kept getting low on coolant and if would smell hot coolant when off roading (and the engine was properly hot) and when I’d go up an incline off...

Dammit, it sucks doing it twice doesn’t it?! Glad it worked out in the end though! Cheers

@Maxer lol great notes man. I very much understand that I may have over sold the job a smidge and pushed some to do it that may not have otherwise attempted it, but such was my intentions. You, again, are proof that it can be done by a willing DIYer. Yes there’s frustrating and sometimes...

$1,4XX with picking it up at his place, I believe it was like another $400+ to ship since it’s one piece and went on a pallet/freight. That might not sound bad now (and probably isn’t the price now) after the last few years of market change, but in 2019 it was 30-40% more than Gobi. Though...

I don’t feel like it, over a calm period of time I’d maybe get 10-11 MPG, so 8 wasn’t a dramatic drop. Worth noting, I live at ~7,000 feet in elevation, I have zero highway on my daily routes and there’s lots of hills I didn’t baby it up.