PSU Taco85
Well-Known Member
You are knocking all this out on dirt under an ezup and I was too lazy to swap a CV axle on concrete in my garage this weekend. Maybe next weekend.
Yeah Boyd is the crazy one, I'm only half crazy
That's me and my Tacoma. I can see how you could easily confuse two DBz from NJ though
Knocked out a little more tonight.
Old and new valve cover gaskets and harnesses. The new harness has an extra tab on the connector under the valve cover to keep the connector from backing out which is a known issue on the design. So I won't need to do the "50 cent" mod on the new valve cover harness.
Old valve cover and gasket removed
Here's the old glow plugs. 3 of the 4 tested bad on the passenger side, and 2 of the 4 were "open circuit" due to the valve cover harness backing out. So essentially I only had 3 working glow plugs, should make winter starts alot better now
New gasket and harness re-installed, while I was in there I checked the torque on the rocker arm pedestal bolts and injector hold down bolts, several had worked their way loose which was expected for a truck with this many miles.
Also got the oil galley end rail plugs replaced, they were not leaking but they do tend to leak over time and to get to the ones in the back while the engine is in is a bear, so I figured for $20, why not save a future headache
Driver side
Passenger
Here's one of the old ones; the seal didn't look too bad but like I said, cheap insurance
Here is one of the reasons I pulled the engine, trying to get this bolt out of the manifold was damn near impossible, so rusted and welded in from years of road grime and heat cycles.
I've been coating the exhaust manifold bolts all week with Kroil in hopes they will pop off with the impact, but from what I've read I'll probably end up having to cut them off and weld a nut to the stud to remove them.
Tomorrow I'm going to do the oil pan seal, the engine has to sit overnight so that no oil contaminates the new RTV seal before it's cured. Small progress but every step gets me a little closer to driving it again