Well, the rest of my parts finally came in the night before last. So I started the long haul to finish the car. Surprising I'm not that far off. But the damn AutoHobby shop is closed so I have to wait until 0900 tommorow to continue.

1st:Cleaning out the damn head bolt holes was the longest and most tedious thing I have ever done! Really, just when you think you got it all out of all of them and run a clean towel down in there to check. Bamn..fluid.

2nd:Its alot easier to tighten/Torque the head bolts if you sit on the front radiator support with you feet down. You can actually reach back there and get some stuff done. Yes, my back hurts and so will yours when your doing this. I think the engineers that decided to put the motor 5inches back need to experience some of this

3rd:Why or How in the F**k dont the stock rockers ever like to go on straight. I mean, there shaft mounted. Really, I tighten them down and not sitting square on the valve stem???? O.K. Loosen up straighten out.tighten up. Fine! WTF on that one.

4th:WhothehellWTF put that damn 15mil bolt behind the damn P/S resevor thats next to impossible to Start the damn thing, yet alone not get it cross-threaded???

So, there I am. I just need to chase the threads to that one P/S pump bracket, install that. The H2O pump and finish up the final stuff. I figure about another 3-4hr MAX tommorow. I'll keep you guys updated. BTW, waiting for my buddy to get home and email some pics we took today.

Ski

 

take your time, cleaning the bolt holes sucks but it is worth not cracking your block from. sounds like you'll get that thing done soon, once you take it for a spin you will realize that all the bitching and complaining you did the past couple days was worth it

Also, Gm engineers must have a secret agreement with some form of chiropractors association. no matter what you do to these cars your back will hurt and your hands will look like they went through a meat grinder

 

lol sounds like the car was tryin to get the best of ya! got any pix yet?

love the sig of you and the car halfways!

 

well he finally got it done today. we will have pics and a vid up soon.

 

Good luck! Make sure those rockers get on there correctly, lol.

 

hell yeah now a vid or it idleing!

 

we got the vid of idle and pics. i will tell him to post it asap.

 

sounds like a fun install

 

I know what your saying. I'm gonna pull the valve covers tommorow to check them. I got them all to stay on there straight and turned the engine over a few times by and they stayed true. Hopefully there still all that way.
I have the pics..but need somewhere to host themm?????
I'll get the vid downloaded tonight..but it'll be later.

Ski

 

I can host them for you. PM me or if you have AIM, msg me on there. I wont be on long tonight.

 

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thanks for posting the pics..
Ski
*BTW There HUGE!*
Props to Bowtieforpower. He was the camera guy. Help me out too!

 

those are some great pics....maybe you should give props to the camera guy

 

Not that it's gonna help you now.. but I have a couple tricks that would have made your life alot easier LOL.....

The bolt holes.. spray them full of carb clean and let them sit overnight. I assume that you spent the first day of good part of it removing everything, and cleaning the block. This was the case with me. I tore everything down the first day, cleaned the block, and then sprayed every hole FULL of carb clean. This does a couple things, it loosens up anything that might be stuck in the holes, and it also evaporates, so alot of it goes away. Then, the next morning, take an air hose, and put a piece of fuel tubing on it, and stick it in the bottom of the hole, and let her rip Covering the hole,and as much of everything that you can is a good idea as the stuff flies everywhere. Hold air on until there is no more fluid coming out. Much easer then the paper towel deal... that wasn't something I wanted to waste hours doing.

The bolt on the power steering pump is easy to get to.... if you remove the pulley. This does require another tool to remove and reinstall the pulley... but it was well worth it.
All the grounds on the back of the heads, put them back in with one bolt.... to hell with that multi grounds point nonsense... I did it with one bolt, no problems, and alot less work.

Not sure about the rockers moving.. mine all just went right on where tehy were supposed to.. the pushrod sat right in the rocker, and then teh tip fell in line with teh valve no big deal. I reused my stock ones ( what most people do, as they are the lightest things you can run for the most part ) and had no issue there. I have alot more valvetrain noise now then I did before... but milled heads, dual springs, heavy duty pushrods... I guess it should be expected.


Congrats on doing the install yourself, I did the head swap on my car with some help from the guys @ Eastside, and a buddy of mine, and it went well. Alot of work, none of it all that easy, but the feeling of doing the job myself, was priceless. Way more rewarding then just handing the keys and a check over. Not even so much because of the $ to have it done, more the feeling of accomplishment.

 

best pics yet...and that shop is quite nice also