TTY head bolts with engine in-vehicle

[strutaeng]

I got most everything put back together. I ran into a few issues:

1. I dropped the threaded piece for the PS installer kit. Looked and looked and kept looking and nothing. Doh! I'd bought one so I wouldn't have to rent one, and that's exactly what I'll have to do.

2. I decided to fire it up and idled pretty well for about a minute. I saw some smoke on the driver's side and initially thought just oil was burning off something but it kept getting worse. It had 60 psi of oil pressure and sounded good. I did a quick visual and saw fuel on the driver's fuel rail, so I immediately shut it off. By then the idle had dropped and engine felt like it was about to die.

I saw the cross over pipe was leaking at the fuel rail. I hadn't noticed that the screw was a regular Philips head screw. PO must have done that! I took a photo and this morning I realized the hold down clamp was installed backwards! WTF! I have another fuel rail sitting around but it's the return style. I'll steal the OEM screw for the time being.

I'm surprised this thing hadn't leaked before and caught on fire.

3. I tried to write the tune using HP Tuners after I shut it off, and didn't succeed. It was timing out for some reason. By then it was quitting time and stunk like gas, so I called it a night.

 

[strutaeng]

Ok, so that crossover fuel pipe hold down was in fact in the right orientation. I fiddled with it some more and got it to stop leaking. I think I'm going to order a complete new o ring kit for it and injectors.

I pressed the PS pump pulley and put everything back together. Also wrote in the tune.

I fired it up let it come up to operating temperature and didn't see any kind of leaks. Oil pressure is a little over 40 psi at hot idle and increases with RPM. Tomorrow I'll take it out for a spin...

 

[strutaeng]

I started adding costs. The little things sure add up quickly. I reused the valley cover gasket and rear main seal/gasket/barbell since I had just replaced those. And the intake manifold gasket and front main seal/gasket I already had from an engine I was going to rebuild but turned out to be junk. I'm sure I'm forgetting some little odds and ends.

Still need to buy coolant. I just used water for the time being.

And then there's my time...(free! LoL)

Anyways, I hope this helps someone.

 

[mattbta]

I started adding costs. The little things sure add up quickly. I reused the valley cover gasket and rear main seal/gasket/barbell since I had just replaced those. And the intake manifold gasket and front main seal/gasket I already had from an engine I was going to rebuild but turned out to be junk. I'm sure I'm forgetting some little odds and ends.

Still need to buy coolant. I just used water for the time being.

And then there's my time...(free! LoL)

Anyways, I hope this helps someone.

That's about what i spent doing refurb heads when my castech's cracked. did lifters as well.

you aren't kidding about little things adding up. i want to say it was almost $100 for two ARP thread chasers. gah!

nice work!

 

[RAMurphy]

Nice write up. Enjoyed reading it.