does it need a metallic one??????????????


same hot stuff as on the exhaust side of the head that i put a metallic one on.

 

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

I believe I used a paper gasket...not real sure, that was a long time ago!!!

 

going back down to lay out every gasket i have

 

OCD can be quite helpful sometimes.

went to my box of parts from the tear-down and there it was laying there (the used one) and so that is what is going on there

 

Ted also responded.....he's awesome.

he said, individually would be a tough one to find there and suggested getting some bulk high-temp gasket material and fabbing my own.

 

gotta take a few minutes....gotta chill, was all p-o'd about that.

 

Relax!!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyl5DlrsU90



O ya I went there!!! I did!!! hahahahahaha

 

I agree with Lumpy. Take a break, relax. Your doing a very nice job.

Mark

 

thank you Mark.

OK...getting my butt kicked trying to line up with that REED valve.........grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

over an hour of struggling so far and still can't get it to line up.....grrrrrrrrrr

taking a much needed break.

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No matter what amount of prying and wedging i do, i can't get the bolts to hit the holes......i have the valve itself loose and can pry around the tube only sooooo much.

 

I am like RIGHT THERE and i still can get it to line up.

 

did you put it on the right way??? lol jk

i didnt have that much trouble with that tube wen i did my HG

try unbolting the mounts and then see if it will line up?

 

Just gotta loosen some stuff up and wiggle about a bit and she'll go. Try standing on you left foot while balancing a cup of coffee on your right knee and (this is important) turn the screw with you left hand using a wrench made out of tin foil.

 

what mounts? where the valve hooks onto the lower intake? already done.

will regroup and try again in a few.....maybe the toyota fairy put it back together for me while i'm sitting here......cuz actually, i went from about an inch and a half off to almost dead on...

 

Just saying, you can probably use the wedding ring here too.

 

alerady done, but ya forgot about the smoke hanging out of the mouth and the camera in the other hand.....it looked like i was working on my truck with chop-sticks because i had the 4 foot breaker bar in one hand and a crow bar in the other and the a block of wood, a mirror (worthless) and vice grips.

it's not that i'm not trying hard enough.....might be i'm trying too hard.

"Luke , don't force it.........."

 

damn! if only i knew where it was.

 

try unboalting everything up to the exhaust. Than try lining it up? Thats what i did.

 

oh dear God , i don't want to do that......that was enough of a PITA doing that.....i do know what you mean though.

 

that tube goes up to the exhaust manifold right? un bolt it from there and then try lining up then.