Update
The studs FINALLY arrived! But not the original ones ordered.
I called the hot rod shop on Monday and he called ARP to find out those studs are still on back order for at least another 2 weeks. They found something else that would work and sent them. It cost more but I couldn't wait much longer. They showed up yesterday and I got right to it.
I had cleaned everything up and stored stuff waiting for my parts.
While I waited I found some dusting inside the turbo.
I took off the housing and cleaned it up. Tolerances are still good.
Found my restriction gauge wasn't solid anymore so I removed it and capped the line for now. Filter looks fine so I'm hoping that's all it was. Could have been back from the fire days with all the extinguishent dust inside the engine bay. I know I had to clean my filter pretty good after that.
Again the old gasket didn't have any obvious leak points. I compared it to the new one and the only difference I could see between the two was this water passage on the lower right.
Some more things I picked up: new engine timing pin and exhaust gaskets.
The timing pin is used to find TDC and in a previous adjustment session I had forgot to pull the pin back (common) so it got sheared off. Since I had a little more access I replaced it.
Once the studs showed up I jumped in the car and picked them up. The substituted studs were .240" longer than the originals ordered.
Long stud: AV8.200-2B Quantity: 4
Medium Stud: AV5.750-2LB TP67118 Quantity: 10
Short Stud: AV3.420-2LB Quantity: 4
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Washers: AVW875N 65799-H Quantity: 18
Nuts: AVN122 MH66156 Quantity: 18
Got a tube of the special ARP thread lube and put them in. The studs have an allen head socket in the top of them so I tightened them down with that. From what I've read they are only suppose to be hand tight so that's all I did.
Head gasket slid down ready for the head. Had my neighbor give me a hand on easing the head down and onto the block.
Torque'd it down in several steps. First to 66ftlbs, then to 90, 105, 115 and finally to 125. Bolted a bunch of stuff back on, adjusted the valves, and basically put off the valve covers until the end because I was anticipating some clearance issues with the longer studs trying to fit underneath them. Thought of and talked about different ways to deal with that since the studs were too long and finally decided on cutting the bottom threads of the studs down. I removed about 3 1/2 threads per stud, dressed them, and clearanced some webbing inside the valve covers to get them to seal. This added to the time of the job and I finished at 11pm last night.
Filled the radiator, rechecked all things I took off, bled the injector lines and it started up and idled out. Let it idle for 10 minutes to check for any leaks and took it for a spin. Nothing bad happened so I drove it to work today with no issues. I'm taking it easy on it for right now and WILL recheck torque next week after a couple days of driving for some heat cycles.
Even with all it's imperfections compared to a modern vehicle I really missed driving it and really enjoyed my commute this morning. Happy to have it back on the road again and ready to start hauling the trailer for house projects. It's also time to hit the trail again.
Don't forget the pics!
has been walking the kids to school in the rain this week while I take the car to work. I'm thinking I better make V-day a little more special for putting up with the situation.
