Cars up and running today!!!!
03-21-2009, 02:26 PM
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Cars up and running today!!!! Well, after a LOOOOONNNNGGGGG *** day of putting the head back on and getting everything buttoned back up, John (JD_Z28) and I finished up last night around midnight... (started at like 3pm 
)
Car runs and drives STRONG now... got rid of that humming noise I've always had and never could figure out what it was. I have a suspicion that it was some bolts that had vibrated loose out of my intake manifold which we put some locktite on and hopefully that won't be happening again.
my only worry now (and keep in mind I'm probably the most paranoid mother ****** you'll ever meet with my car... just because I've always had such bad luck with it lol) is that the passenger side valve train (the side we worked on) has a noticeably louder sewing machine sound coming from it...
I don't see how anything could be wrong, as we took time (and I mean overkill time) with ever little step. EVERYTHING was torqued to spec and in the proper sequences.
John seemed to think maybe since we cleaned the head up real well, and the parts were all in there fresh it needed a day or two of driving and things might "settle" and quite down a bit... and I could also just be a paranoid moron... who knows...
the other plus, was whatever was causing my "sputtering" at WOT seems to have gone away as well... who knows what was causing that... maybe the spark plugs that broke off in my head were semi-cracked already and causing a spark issue, maybe the bolts that vibrated out of my intake manifold was causing a vacuum leak, maybe it was a loose connection... maybe maybe maybe guess i'll never know...
in the end, it seems to be running well and hopefully it'll stay that way for a while...
Thanks to John for busting a few knuckles on my heap and Ryne for the phone help!!!
)Car runs and drives STRONG now... got rid of that humming noise I've always had and never could figure out what it was. I have a suspicion that it was some bolts that had vibrated loose out of my intake manifold which we put some locktite on and hopefully that won't be happening again.
my only worry now (and keep in mind I'm probably the most paranoid mother ****** you'll ever meet with my car... just because I've always had such bad luck with it lol) is that the passenger side valve train (the side we worked on) has a noticeably louder sewing machine sound coming from it...
I don't see how anything could be wrong, as we took time (and I mean overkill time) with ever little step. EVERYTHING was torqued to spec and in the proper sequences.
John seemed to think maybe since we cleaned the head up real well, and the parts were all in there fresh it needed a day or two of driving and things might "settle" and quite down a bit... and I could also just be a paranoid moron... who knows...
the other plus, was whatever was causing my "sputtering" at WOT seems to have gone away as well... who knows what was causing that... maybe the spark plugs that broke off in my head were semi-cracked already and causing a spark issue, maybe the bolts that vibrated out of my intake manifold was causing a vacuum leak, maybe it was a loose connection... maybe maybe maybe
guess i'll never know...in the end, it seems to be running well and hopefully it'll stay that way for a while...
Thanks to John for busting a few knuckles on my heap and Ryne for the phone help!!!
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03-22-2009, 02:56 PM
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it used to be... not so much anymore lol... It's fun for weekend driving and stuff like that... but to cruise it around in stop/go traffic during the week it kinda puts a damper on the driving mood...
the thing just doesn't want to cooperate when trying to do 5-10 mph it want's to GOOOOO!!!
ummm... thinking maybe between June-August... just depends if we can find a nice place to rent till I'm approved on a house. Apparently I gotta have a job for at least a year before I can get financing on a house. So I gotta get a job also
ya know, all the hurdles
We went to the Pavillions last night... pretty good turn out, but most of the F-body guys were on that 3 hour cruise and went to Firebird Raceway last night... last week like 20 f-bodies showed up...
Dude, if it weren't for John, there's no way I would have attempted that job... I can handle it, if someone else is turning a wrench and something breaks, but If i'm doing it and something breaks I couldn't deal with it
as a matter of fact, when torquing those head bolts down to 85 ft./lbs... on the 2nd to last bolt, we thought it broke off in the head when the socket started turning freely and we heard a SNAP! After freaking out for a few seconds (what seemed like hours ) we looked closer and the socket split in half!!! Scared the **** out of us! That's a lot of torque on those bolts!
yup and yup! 
Ok good info! The noise seems to have gone away at this point, so my next fixer uppers are somehow fabricating some bracket for my radiator to stay held back, and replace my power steering hoses, since they got cut in half by my belts...
dude you have no idea how bad I am... I'm sure Ryne and John can both chime in... I drive them both nuts with my paranoia
always 2nd guessing ****, wanting 2-3 days of easy putting around before "getting on it WOT" after any kind of engine work... i'm bad... you have no idea...
the thing just doesn't want to cooperate when trying to do 5-10 mph
it want's to GOOOOO!!! ummm... thinking maybe between June-August... just depends if we can find a nice place to rent till I'm approved on a house. Apparently I gotta have a job for at least a year before I can get financing on a house. So I gotta get a job also
ya know, all the hurdles
as a matter of fact, when torquing those head bolts down to 85 ft./lbs... on the 2nd to last bolt, we thought it broke off in the head when the socket started turning freely and we heard a SNAP! After freaking out for a few seconds (what seemed like hours
) we looked closer and the socket split in half!!! Scared the **** out of us! That's a lot of torque on those bolts!Ok good info! The noise seems to have gone away at this point, so my next fixer uppers are somehow fabricating some bracket for my radiator to stay held back, and replace my power steering hoses, since they got cut in half by my belts...
always 2nd guessing ****, wanting 2-3 days of easy putting around before "getting on it WOT" after any kind of engine work...
i'm bad... you have no idea... 
