or.......does it really matter which side of the gasket is up or down?
Do I need to worry about this?
I just want to make sure I get and keep a good seal.
Swear I searched for this and could not find a thread that got right to the answer.
Replacing the O2 sensors with OEM - need to know which side of the gasket goes down on exhaust, which side up to the sensor.
Original ones (I assume) were toast and essentially fused to the exhaust and could...
Thanks for posting this info. I have family in Dallas only a few hours away and will need to know this. Hope you post up some results of the work for future reference. I have a 300k rig - inevitably will need head work.
1. any friends nearby with a set of smaller wheels & tires you can slap on there and take it for a drive...perhaps you got a bad rim.
2. mine turned out to be drive shaft - ujoints gone bad. Time for new joints and shaft rebalance.
Front u-joint at the diff grenaded on me. Dropped the ds. Could tell the yoke looked a little banged up. When I got the ujoint out I saw this.
Is it supposed to have that "notch" in there? I would think not.
Is this yoke still beefy enough to be ok if I just slap a new u-joint in there.....or...
Take care in disconnecting the battery if you are in a hurry to get it inspected....many of the systems will read "not ready" for a while while they go through the drive cycles to become ready.
Where I am, with a 1997, any vehicle 2000 or below can have one system not ready.....as long as the...
Ok....just rotating tires here...got the lugs off, but the passenger rear wheel just wont come off!!??
Tried whacking with BFrubber mallet, tried lowering jack so pressure is back on wheel/tire....to no avail.
Any suggestions?
What started as a quick 20 min chore, has turned into an hour...
grommet removal
I was able to gently tap a few of mine out from the top with a socket and a rubber mallot (in the same manner you will tap the new ones in from the bottom . A few of the gommmets busted but I was able to get them started with the screwdriver + electrical tape method....unseated...
Thanks for the input!!
Thanks for the input guys! Feel better now.
Only had it for 3 yrs now. Chevron delo 400 oil about every 3 months or so. Its my wife's daily driver and only goes about 12 miles a day + weekend trips. Factory air filter, wix oil filter.
The PO had no records...
Doing valve cover gasket while working on intake/egr carbon to chase down cel for p0401.
How does this look for 270k miles? Doesn't look too bad to me IMHO. I kinda expected worse.
This is the bottom tank (removed with cutting tool) of a 250k mile radiator from my 97.
I expected to see some sludge...but this looks good to me!?
Wondering if the PO had it replaced at some time....but the plastic looked pretty bad/old to me. What do you think?
The upper tank seal was...