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So today I did the SeaFoam thing. It did not smoke like I thought it would.
I poured a 3rd pint in the brake booster vacuum and shut it down. Waited five minutes like the can says and started it back up. Ran it until it stopped smoking. I though it would smoke more...
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Well, it apparently did something because I ended up with quite puddle of oil under the truck. Seems it cleaned out the crud to really let loose on the front side leak. Fxxx. I am pretty sure it is the front seal now. I think I did not properly center it when I seated the timing gear cover. Guess I will take a weekend and re-do that and the rear main. I plan on using different "goo" and all OEM gaskets.
I also attempted to hook the temp gauge to the second sensor I have in the engine I failed to pay attention to. It is smoked. It did nothing.
So this evening we took the leaky bastard to dinner and on the way home the temp gauge read perfect. Right in the middle where it should be. I am thinking with all the connecting and disconnecting I did it may have rubbed it the right way. Fxxxing Gremlins.
Also I took what appear to be factory door panels off the interior. I have never seen these on a 40 before...
They have to be factory because the door access panel to the rear of the window crank was sealed with clear plastic and tar goo like on today's cars.
I poured a 3rd pint in the brake booster vacuum and shut it down. Waited five minutes like the can says and started it back up. Ran it until it stopped smoking. I though it would smoke more...


Using SeaFoam on Vimeo
Well, it apparently did something because I ended up with quite puddle of oil under the truck. Seems it cleaned out the crud to really let loose on the front side leak. Fxxx. I am pretty sure it is the front seal now. I think I did not properly center it when I seated the timing gear cover. Guess I will take a weekend and re-do that and the rear main. I plan on using different "goo" and all OEM gaskets.
I also attempted to hook the temp gauge to the second sensor I have in the engine I failed to pay attention to. It is smoked. It did nothing.
So this evening we took the leaky bastard to dinner and on the way home the temp gauge read perfect. Right in the middle where it should be. I am thinking with all the connecting and disconnecting I did it may have rubbed it the right way. Fxxxing Gremlins.
Also I took what appear to be factory door panels off the interior. I have never seen these on a 40 before...

They have to be factory because the door access panel to the rear of the window crank was sealed with clear plastic and tar goo like on today's cars.
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