Cleaned at the intake manifold today. Seriously debating buying a cheap media blaster and powder coating gun for this project. Have not attempted to remove old gasket material yet.
I had my daughter stop at harbor freight yesterday for something like that and they had none. You reminded me to order some. Says they will be here sunday.
Trying to clean these parts up before they go back on. I need to find some fine brushes for my dremel to get all the nooks and crannies. And I need to buy all new rubber.
A friend gave me his center console as it's the grey that the rest of my interior is. Sometime in this cars life it was replaced, probably damaged due to a stolen deck, but the replacement was that grey-blue
It's annoyed me since I took ownership...
No picture of finished product but I took these to send to Marty to show the progress. It was a lot of work but I'm still waiting on some parts to come in anyways so I went ahead and did it. I used die grinding carbide bits in a die grinder. The...
If you need bearings it would be almost certainly due to an oil pump failure, at which case the whole block needs to be cleaned and gone through. Was there glitter in the oil pan or something that gave you that idea? If there is no oil pump...
I contemplated what all I need to do to it while it is apart. Finding the issues that I did was not disappointing. I figured with the age of the car I would have numerous issues bc it was still all stock. This just gives me an excuse to rebuild...
Oil on the intake side like that is common when there's no catch can and the PCV is routed directly to the IM. That's why we install catch cans.
Poorly made cans with no baffles or catch material that can condense oil vapour is almost as bad...