LINUS
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
After blowing my HG last March (yeah - it's been a while!) my LC is finally back on the road! Mine was the standard #6 chamber to cooling jacket for those of you keeping score at home.
1st off - A big "THANK YOU" to C-Dan for all the help with parts and advice on what else to change while in there (I have 130k on my odometer)
A few random things from my fix :
If you have a FSM and some patience this motor is a snap to work on. Everything seemed to be indexed so it was impossible to place a rotating part in out of alignment. I really like this motor for service-ability. Nothing like the VR6 motor in my old VW's - thank God.
I don't know about some of you, but I couldn't undo my wiring harness to get it through the intake runners - either I couldn't find the plugs visually or my paws were just too big to get on them. I used a Sawzall and cut my intake between the 2 runners where the offending metal was. I just spaced the intake from the head on the 2 outboard studs with some 1/4" plywood shims and ran in 2 bolts close to my cut area with shims there too and 2 cuts later out came my lower intake. I radiused the cuts afterwards and reinstalled just like that. You don't lose any mount points and the harness slides out fine.
For the record I had the shop who had the head do a valve grind, shim the valves, and they removed between .003 - .005 from everywhere on the head aside from the #6 area. The #6 area on my head was a slight low spot so that was the reason the head got milled at all. I didn't overheat the truck when I blew the gasket, so I had a real mild problem compared to others out here. I was on it the minute things seemed odd so there was no added damage (warped head stuff) aside from the gasket needing a change-out.
Thanks Rick & Lars (I was reading some of your posts as I was doing mine as referance) , and again thanks to Dan - you guys made it easier for me to do mine.
Now I just gotta get those lockers in and do full axle services.
1st off - A big "THANK YOU" to C-Dan for all the help with parts and advice on what else to change while in there (I have 130k on my odometer)
A few random things from my fix :
If you have a FSM and some patience this motor is a snap to work on. Everything seemed to be indexed so it was impossible to place a rotating part in out of alignment. I really like this motor for service-ability. Nothing like the VR6 motor in my old VW's - thank God.
I don't know about some of you, but I couldn't undo my wiring harness to get it through the intake runners - either I couldn't find the plugs visually or my paws were just too big to get on them. I used a Sawzall and cut my intake between the 2 runners where the offending metal was. I just spaced the intake from the head on the 2 outboard studs with some 1/4" plywood shims and ran in 2 bolts close to my cut area with shims there too and 2 cuts later out came my lower intake. I radiused the cuts afterwards and reinstalled just like that. You don't lose any mount points and the harness slides out fine.
For the record I had the shop who had the head do a valve grind, shim the valves, and they removed between .003 - .005 from everywhere on the head aside from the #6 area. The #6 area on my head was a slight low spot so that was the reason the head got milled at all. I didn't overheat the truck when I blew the gasket, so I had a real mild problem compared to others out here. I was on it the minute things seemed odd so there was no added damage (warped head stuff) aside from the gasket needing a change-out.
Thanks Rick & Lars (I was reading some of your posts as I was doing mine as referance) , and again thanks to Dan - you guys made it easier for me to do mine.
Now I just gotta get those lockers in and do full axle services.
