Probably because of the non-OEM radiator cap
What did you work on tonight? (1 Viewer)
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I went out to the Rio Puerco for a little recoil therapy today. That solar farm is gargantuan.
Looking north.
Looking south.
Looking north.
Looking south.
alia176
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Time for the head gaskets to come out!!!
Where are the head bolts? Do the camshaft bearing bolts double as head bolts?
alia176
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They're under the camshafts, hard to see from my pic
Working on installing new headlights. Still need to affix the relays to the engine bay and do some cable management.
Found a secret treasure hidden under the bumper: first owner made a copy of the key and hid it in a little box. Second owner didn't know it existed, lol. Working on this thing feels like playing clue sometimes
Found a secret treasure hidden under the bumper: first owner made a copy of the key and hid it in a little box. Second owner didn't know it existed, lol. Working on this thing feels like playing clue sometimes
get those injectors cleaned while its all apart! also now would be a good time to remove the now super brittle plastic wire covers and rewrap everything in tessa tape and split loom
Mauser
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get those injectors cleaned while its all apart! also now would be a good time to remove the now super brittle plastic wire covers and rewrap everything in tessa tape and split loom
Smart man. I rigged up an injector cleaner when I replaced intake manifold gaskets on my LX. It works great, just takes a long time cleaning 8 and then testing them one at a time.
Mauser
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Making some Christmas ornaments
Mauser
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One more.
Tank5
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Those are pretty cool! Did you use your engraver to make them?
Mauser
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Thanks. Yeah, my daughter saw them online somewhere and wanted to try to make some.
alia176
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Isabelle and I pulled her heads yesterday. Looks like cyl #6 was getting steam cleaned as those exh valves look completely different than the remaining exhaust valves.
I seem to recall something about that. I think it's heat soak at the back of the engine that takes out the gasket.
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I'm sure you are going to make sure the heads don't have any cracks. When I tore mine apart, I had to replace the heads due to almost invisible cracks between the cylinders.
alia176
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I'm going to have the empire engine rebuilder shop do a pressure test on the heads just to make sure but it was hard to see any cracks with all this carbon build up.
I used empire for my builds heads, good dudes
alia176
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I spoke to Justin, the son of the owner, Brian. Seemed like a good dude on the phone and he used to have a Taco with the same engine. He says that he doesn't see too many of these heads coming in for work.
Maybe?
