Welcome to my Nightmare!!!!

[EddieWalker]

The valve cover has a really clever design. Unlike auto gaskets that I grew up with and fought oil leaks all the time, this gasket is a ruber strip on it's edge. As you tighten it, the rubber compresses adn gives you a perfect seal.

It's one piece and the ends overlap. Just cut off the excess and your done!!

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

The valve cover has a really clever design. Unlike auto gaskets that I grew up with and fought oil leaks all the time, this gasket is a ruber strip on it's edge. As you tighten it, the rubber compresses adn gives you a perfect seal.

It's one piece and the ends overlap. Just cut off the excess and your done!!

Eddie

 

[hockeypuck]

Ed-die! Ed-die! Ed-die! Ed-die!

(just imagine a stadium full of people chanting your name as you near the finish line /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

 

[hockeypuck]

Ed-die! Ed-die! Ed-die! Ed-die!

(just imagine a stadium full of people chanting your name as you near the finish line /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif)

 

[EddieWalker]

Fuel lines are back on. All fittings have brand new copper washers. New fuel filter and water seperator.

I lost a part to the fuel line on one of the injectors. It's a small part that will probably cost me a buck, but I have to have it.

It really bugs me when a part disapears like that, especially when five out of six are where I put them. What happend to the missing one???? I don't understand it, but there's not much to do but replace it. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

Fuel lines are back on. All fittings have brand new copper washers. New fuel filter and water seperator.

I lost a part to the fuel line on one of the injectors. It's a small part that will probably cost me a buck, but I have to have it.

It really bugs me when a part disapears like that, especially when five out of six are where I put them. What happend to the missing one???? I don't understand it, but there's not much to do but replace it. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

The fan was high on the pain scale getting it on. It's just really heavy and my forearms started cramping out on me while holding it up and trying to get the bolts started. Twice I had to rest until I got it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

The shroud needed fixing too, but I needed the fan in place to do that. There are three brackets to hold it in place. Two were busted.

There are two thermostats. The bolts that hold the housing down are to corroded to work, so that's stoped me from getting that on.

Case supplied me with a replacement tube for what's called a vent for the water lines. It's a small copper tube that goes from the block to the thermostat houseing. I broke the old one taking it off. The new one has two female ends. I need a male and a female. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

So I filed down the exhause manifold for a good seal. I should have done this earlier, but it's one of those things that I like to procrastinate on.

I need to get some parts on Tuesday, so tomorrow will be a short day and then maybe some goofing off.

Eddie

 

[EddieWalker]

The fan was high on the pain scale getting it on. It's just really heavy and my forearms started cramping out on me while holding it up and trying to get the bolts started. Twice I had to rest until I got it. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

The shroud needed fixing too, but I needed the fan in place to do that. There are three brackets to hold it in place. Two were busted.

There are two thermostats. The bolts that hold the housing down are to corroded to work, so that's stoped me from getting that on.

Case supplied me with a replacement tube for what's called a vent for the water lines. It's a small copper tube that goes from the block to the thermostat houseing. I broke the old one taking it off. The new one has two female ends. I need a male and a female. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

So I filed down the exhause manifold for a good seal. I should have done this earlier, but it's one of those things that I like to procrastinate on.

I need to get some parts on Tuesday, so tomorrow will be a short day and then maybe some goofing off.

Eddie

 

[Cliff_Johns]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It really bugs me when a part disapears like that, especially when five out of six are where I put them. )</font>

It's probably with the missing socks.

Thanks for the thread, eddie. I'm sorry you had this whole thing happen, but you're making the best of it. Taking apart a tool -- any tool -- and putting it back together gives you a different kind of respect for it. It's what really makes it yours. It's sort of like family after that.

Great reading.

Cliff

 

[Cliff_Johns]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( It really bugs me when a part disapears like that, especially when five out of six are where I put them. )</font>

It's probably with the missing socks.

Thanks for the thread, eddie. I'm sorry you had this whole thing happen, but you're making the best of it. Taking apart a tool -- any tool -- and putting it back together gives you a different kind of respect for it. It's what really makes it yours. It's sort of like family after that.

Great reading.

Cliff