[DML] Re: Uh oh
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Funny that Dave T should recommend that I yank the block and just do 
the whole thing. That's what I wanted to do from the very start but 
everyone told me I "didn't need to do all that".

That's ok. At the end of the day, I know who's responsible for the 
decisions I've made. Me.

Now as far as running the engine for only a few hundred miles with 
thinned out oil and coolant, you guys haven't been paying 
attention. :) I haven't -driven- mine yet. I've only idled it in 
front of my house. I -immediately- stopped runnning it when it barfed 
coolant/oil on the ground. Well..2 laps around my development parking 
lot. But that was it.

Martin, I don't quite understand the part about the manifold gaskets. 
I'll test fit them today and see if I can finger it out.

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> cruznmd wrote:
> 
> >By and large, the bulk of the email I'm getting off list is 
telling me
> >to just put the dang thing back together and see what happens. :) 
I'm
> >also getting email from folks saying I've gone way further into my
> >engine than they ever have. That's frightening considering I've 
owned
> >mine less than a year. Am I just too dumb to know when I'm in over 
my
> >head?
> >
> I was going to reply to specifics, but basically your first 
sentence 
> says it all. When we did our first head-job, we were on the phone 
every 
> 5 minutes to our engine guy. Now we can strip and engine down to 
the 
> block in about 90 minutes.
> 
> >Now if I only had a pulley-puller....
> >
> You can ease it off with a bit of gentle levering on sequentially 
> opposite sides with a pair of decent-sized flat screwdrivers. Just 
don't 
> go/get mad and bend the pulley.
> 
> BTW a couple of hints: CHANGE THE TIMING CHAINS. Not because you 
> "should" but because you may find for an outlay of less than $30 
your 
> engine exhibits a whole new lease of life. And secondly, presumably 
> you'll be replacing the exhaust manifold before putting the head 
back on 
> the block. MAKE SURE you don't get the little tabs on the bottom of 
the 
> manifold gaskets caught under the head....... (been there, done 
that)
> 
> Martin






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