Re: [DMCForum] Water pump removed...

["Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>]

> Toby's kit came with the gasket, is that all I need
to make a proper seal, or do I need some liquid too?

I say do like Mark and use silicone RTV or non-hardening
Permatex Form-A-Gasket.  I think it is important to fill the
crevices where coolant can become stagnant.  That seems to
be where most of the corrosion takes place.

> Walt, what wre you saying about the rubber hoses needing
to set,
should i try to fine the y pipe hose and heater hose in
silicone to
be safe?  Is this what you have been trying to tell me?

Clamped connections on rubber hoses tend to loosen after the
first few hundred miles of driving.  So it is important to
snug them up after a while.  Small coolant leaks become
corrosive.  Are you familiar with those spring-loaded hose
clamps that come OEM on several makes of cars?  The reason
for those is that they dont loosen up on rubber hoses.  So
in places where you cant use silicone hose, I recommend
spring-loaded clamps.  And where possible, orient all
worm-gear hose clamps so that you can get a
screwdriver/nutdriver on them if you have to.  This is
another reason to eliminate the steel heater hose in the
valley-of-death.  It is another clamp that is hard to snug.

> The intake ports on the heads have a lot of carbon build
up, should
I clean that up or it doesnt really matter?

It doesn't really matter.  I used a bunch of Brake-Kleen &
intake manifold cleaner with a tooth brush to clean mine up.
But I was just being anal.  Be careful that you dont clean
out too many brain cells breathing that stuff. ;-)

> I have the major engine service kit, most seems easy
enough, but how
hard is it replacing the head cover gasket on the left side?

I think you mean valve cover gasket?  It is more work than
the right side because the aircon compressor & warm-up
regulator are in the way among other things.  The only
reason to remove valve covers is to do a valve lash
adjustment or if you have a leaky one.  I suggest saving
that for a separate project.  You will have disturbed enough
already removing & replacing the intake manifold.  There
isnt much advantage to doing both jobs at the same time.

> I had to cut the alternator belt to get it off, how do I
get the new
one on?

I'm sure you found the slotted lower bracket holding the
alternator to the block.  You gotta loosen it at both ends.
Also you may need to loosen the hinge bolt (that big bolt
holding most of the alternator.  It's a 17mm).  If that is
tight then it wont pivot to loosen the belt.  The aircon
belt obstructs the alternator belt, so dont put them on in
the wrong order.

> What size copper crush washers do I need to connect the
fuel lines
back to the distributor?

There are several sizes.  I think they call them by the
diameter of the hollow bolt that goes inside of them, such
as M10 for the smallest ones.

> Does anyone know how to wire the nology power core to the
ignition
system?

Nope.  But I'm curious to see it.

> Also it seems weird to me that you get the nice new plug
wires and the power core but the coil wire is not upgraded.

Maybe they forgot to put it in the package?  A set of plug
wires I got from PJ Grady had the coil wire barely long
enough to fit without stretching it.  I have seen others
come from vendors that were too long.

Sorry for all the questions, but I am also curious if anyone
knows
of any aftermarket cruise control kits that I can use on the
car?

Check where the cruise control senses the speed.  Usually
they stick a bunch of magnets on one of the half-axels and
then suspend a wire coil next to it.  Sometimes the magnets
are glued on.  Sometimes they are held on with a wire
wrapped around.  Maybe someone lazy just relied on the
magnetic force to hold them on.  They can shift, fall off,
or maybe someone messed with an axle and didn't put it back
on the same way that it came off.

> Thats all the questions I can think of for now.  Thank
you!

Cool.  Vote Libertarian!  (Just a suggestion.  I'll still
like you even if you vote communist, err, I mean socialist,
oops, I mean democrap, uh, I mean democrat. ;-)  Republicans
are basically equivalent to democrats only more
conservative.  I can forgive you for being one of those too.

Walt

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