Well it was a battle most of the way, even with a service manual.........
As I mentioned the other day my plenum was filling with oil and the truck has 73ishK on the clock, so \soup nazi\ no warrantee for you!!!
I hit the stealership for the parts on monday, we'll have em tomorrow. Go back tuesday:
Here are the gaskets...
....OK where are my bolts?
Bolts??? We don't replace the bolts when we do the plenum...
Aren't they torque to yield??
Well......we can get them for you, tomorrow.
Wednesday, get my parts, and dig in......
Boy that serpentine belt sure comes off easy.....
Wow the AC compressor almost comes right off, that last bolt is a pain, can't get a socket on there with them pipes in the way, where's my combo wrench????
How the hell does the throttle cable come out, ah hell I'll just pop the bracket....SH!T that won't come off with the TB in place.....wait I can look it up ....ok that's simple enough.....
Ok how come the fuel line won't pop with this plastic tool?? I think I'm using it right....hell I'll go buy the metal pliers type one ....wow that was easy.
Hmmmm sure would be nice if I could get these harnesses out of the way...damnit busted the clip to hell on #4 injector, oh well it still locks in place...... Ah need to pull these grounds on the passenger head how cum the GREAT BIG RING terminal just twisted itself apart??? Oh the nut is frozen to the stud. Well Jorge the electrician who lives upstairs should be home soon maybe he has some stake ons that I can use to fix that.
I know these spring clips are much better for the health of the coolant hoses and probably work just fine if you have the $200 special set of pliers to work them but channel locks sure like to slip off.....that's gonna leave a mark!!!
Why is my phone ringing????? Hey Jim your pimp here I need you to be in NYC for an 0600 start up tomorrow morning......... BTW it was about 1700 when I got that call.
OK it's off quick cleaning with carb cleaner, scrape the gaskets with the vacuum trying to keep the crap out of the valley, thin bead of silly cone on intake bottom, thin bead of silly cone on plenum plate, gasket in between, 3 steps of torque, thin bead of silly cone on the water passages in heads and intake, rails in, ends in with silly cone holding them to the rails, intake in, intake torqued, harnesses in place, Jorge offers 3 14ga rings that will fit, the 5 wires that need to go in them just barely fit, damnit I snapped one of the rings while crimping, well I've got some spades that I can make work, ok stud and grounds in place, big hunk of cast Al goes on next....why don't this fit?????
Scratches head....tries again....scratches head again.....hey why is it hitting the stud with the ground wires, and why isn't there a bolt holding the top of the coil to the head. Move ground stud, re-retreminate wires, ok now it fits. Man it's gonna take forever to run the bolts in by hand, let's grab the air ratchet....ah better.....
Ok alternator, hoses, AC compressor, refill rad, damnit where are my keys?? Oh there they are in one of my 3-5 usual places to forget them...the padlock on the barn door. VROOM ...good it runs, time to shower and grab some supper then off to the ATM and the power plant in NYC.
Just pulled up to the ATM ..HUH??? Idiot light, check gages??? let's see oil pressure check, temperature..still cold check, volts...maybe a little low. Grab flashlight, look under hood, hey the field wire isn't plugged into the alternator, lemme pop it back in...tug... TUG....TUG great it's stuck under the alternator.....back to the house. Long cheater on the tensoner that wedges conveniently against the hood, pop top bolt swivel, plug in replace top bolt, release tensioner...on the road again to NYC.
Total job time 8.5 hours.
On the up side I do have some nifty new tools including an inch # torque wrench.
On the down side the power plant didn't need me. AND I have been up for 24 hours........
OK for the patient ones among you:
1. Anyone know the flat rate time for this repair?
2. I am not entirely sure, but when I filled up after fixing the thing it looked like I was only getting 12 mpg, does the trip counter reset when you disconnect the battery?
Jim
03 red CC Dak missing 2 pistons....btw where do they find the room for the other 2 in the V-8 trucks??????
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