Vin4Runner

Finally found a buyer for my 85 caprice classic so soon ill have the funds to finally replace my almost blown HG. Im replace the valve cover gaskets and plengum seal, new timing belt, and might as well adjust the valves along with a new HG. At a minimum can i just replace the above? Oil is clean, coolant still green, no overheating or burning oil, small leak behind i think number 6 cylinder(88 3.0) leaking right on top of my exhaust pipe(only reason i found out cause of smell). I dont have much cash to spend and i just need it to run, i dont plan on pushing the engine anytime soon and have major plans in the future for my truck. The list is as follows: valve cover gaskets, plengum seal, head gasket, timing belt(its old), head bolts, valve adjustment. Like i said truck doesnt overheat and shows no signs of compression loss, this good enough or am i overlooking something that is absolutely necessary?

Stetson_md

Intake and exhuast gaskets I don't know the v6 though

bbrideau

trash it, get a 3.4

but to answer your question, you can do that, you can do whatever you feel like doing while your in there. but you run the risk of it lasting say, 20 miles or 20,000 miles. all depends how much you do and how well you do it

edit; a lot of people do water pump and oil pump since your that deep into the motor anyways. thats all up to you tho.

Vin4Runner

Intake and Exhaust? but then I have to buy 2 of each, shouldve kept my 22re 4Runner.

HG im getting from rock auto, head bolts from LCE, best prices I found.

Vin4Runner

Major plans in the future, engine swap likely. The guy im doing this with knows his stuff pretty well, engine still runs completly smooth aside from small coolant leaking from HG, no stuttering or knocking or pinging or burning oil or anything else. Worries me that it has 230000 miles on a 3.0 and only thing wrong is small hg leak, expected to find donor engine by now you know?

Stetson_md

Yea a head gasket set cost 216 for a v6 but only 88 for a 22r at o'reillys

Vin4Runner

another question, looking at head gasket kits at rock auto, I see the DNJ kit is a lot cheaper than the FEL-PRO, 85 vs 140, is the DNJ that low quality or something? Is it worth to get the fel pro if im going to do the entire gasket kit?

bbrideau

go for the felpro, never heard of or used DNJ. someone else might speculate on that topic but i personally suggest fel pro, good quality gaskets and a very complete kit

Vin4Runner

After comparing prices for seperate HG, valve cover gaskets, exhaust+intake gaskets itll be cheaper to get the full set instead of seperate plus ill get those little extra things also. To bad i still need to get the head bolts seperate.

Stetson_md

Lol I gotta do the same thing to mine sometime soon.while you got it off you might look at the valves/seats and see if they could use a lapping(pitted) your kit should come with new stem seals so you'd already have it apart

z31freakify

go to ebay theres a kit that has MLS(MULTI Layered Steel)head gaskets with all seals from heads up for $118 (Mizumo Auto) is the seller I bought some a year or so back already put over 15k and no problem as of yet

bbrideau

i paid 120 dollars for a complete fel pro gasket set for my 22re, I looked at ebay kits but im a little cautious to use them, some guys have great luck with them and some don't it's all in the luck of the draw i suppose. There is however a seller on ebay who is phenomenal with yota stuff and that is engnbldr try looking for him on there or google his website sometimes he has crazy deals

Vin4Runner

I checked engn bldr and couldnt find a HG set for the 3.0, plus it looks like the fel pro set has the little valve stem seals or whatever there called(i know what they do just not name on most things mechanical), ebay scares me a little even if it is the MLS HG, I just need it to last few years, so if I have original HG it lasted almost 230000 miles without the MLS gasket I should be good. Next is to replace the front diff and the 25 year old tranny fluids

Stetson_md

Fel pro is all I use when it comes to hg's but they make two different ones for the 22r idk if they make 2 for the 3.0 or not but one is better tjem the other I think its the newer style that's the better one not too sure