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A good air compressor helps!
Thought I'd give update on my project. Been a rough week with the kids being sick, so I didn't get as much done as I wanted to. I continued to unplug and label connections. A good buddy from work gave me a good tip to help with labeling hoses. He said to get some colored plastic ties and tie them on a hose that is taken off and 1 on the connector it came off. I thought this was a good tip to share.
I have been needing to buy an air compressor for years but have kept putting off buying one. So I managed to get the bottom pully off by wrapping the serpentine belt around the pully and then hooking it onto a tie rod. This held the pully from spinning and allowed me to get the pully off. Then when I tried to remove the cam sprockets, of course they were spinning and I messed around for a long time trying to come up with a good way to hold them to get the bolts out. After wasting about an hour, I finally decided it was time to break down and buy an air compressor. I bought a Husky 26 gal. from Home Depot for $239. It came with a hose and connectors, an air ratchet, and an impact gun. I thought that was a pretty good price for everything I got. It's not a professional air compressor, but should work good for the little use it will see in my garage. The cam sprockets came off with the impact gun in about 10 seconds!Attachment 4433Attachment 4434Attachment 4435Attachment 4436
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The engine is indeed trashed
After getting the head off and looking things over, all 4 pistons are ruined where the valves smashed into them. The valves don't appear to be sheared off, but I'm guessing they are bent???
I guess my next step is to continue working on getting the engine and transmission out and start looking for a good junk yard engine. I had found 1 on Ebay about 2 hrs. away that only had 43k miles on it that I was watching but someone bought it :mad: so I'll have to keep looking.
I'm going to take a break tomorrow since it's Sunday and the Lord's day. Plus my hands are awefully cut up after today, my back hurts, and my kids are needing some quality time spent with them. I can understand why garages charge up to $2k for a job like this. It's alot of work, and it sucks. But it's rewarding when it's finished and all comes together. Hopefully this project will have a happy ending! I'll continue to post as I make progress. Hopefully these posts will be helpful to someone working on a similiar project.Attachment 4443Attachment 4444Attachment 4445Attachment 4446Attachment 4447