Well you might get lucky and get the nuts to break loose. Try that before you go nuts with the vice grips.

 

haha yeah I meant to use the vice grips to hold the other side (bolt)

 

yes, that should be fine....chances are the nut end will break free before the bolt end moves.....you're killing me.....try it!

 

ok ok let me put on my clothes and try it.

 

Please if your on here nakey we don't need to know about it!!!

 

no movement. maybe i'm just really weak?

 

ok with some creative cheater bar work i have gotten the driver side bolts off. now the passenger side presents some problems. report back in a bit

 

no can complete. diff is blocking the socket wrench. i need that combo wrench now. shlajl;kfj! noone is responding to texts so now i gotta walk. yay me.

 

back from sears. spent 13 bucks on a single 6 point 17mm combo wrench! damn man. I also got a gasket scraper. Then went to home depot and got a razor scraper and crescent wrench for the knock sensor. I had a spark of genuis while in home depot and picked up some sort of puller device. I noticed an eyelet hook thing on the celing and decided that hoisting the head up from there would be great since I need the head to hover while feeding the wires through the lower intake manifold.

I'm gonna try this 17 mm combo wrench but I know it's gonna be hard without the cheater bar

 

waiting.............

 

I think he got naked again..... chelu, put your clothes back on and try this. if you are using the box end on the nut/bolt, put another box end on the open end side of the 17mm wrench and use that as your cheater bar.....

 

use your legs...your legs are tons stronger than your arms.

 

SUCCESS!!!!!!

 

Backing up heres the break down:

I woke up and read the thread (not naked) then went to lumpys page and got naked. I'm just joking, For the record: I Was NEVER naked while on yotatech.

Anyways, I got working early and spent atleast an hour and a half trying to get the front diff crossmember off. I got the two driver side bolts off using a creative cheater bar-socket wrench trick. I would get the socket wrench in place the angle the cheater bar in then get enough leverage to move it like one click. I managed to get both off and looked at the passenger side. No bueno. The diff is too close to the bolt so only a combo wrench could fit.

My cousin picked me up and we went to sears and waited for atleast 40 mins to get someone to open the display case. I was | | close to getting this magnetic pat that holds tool and stuff but decided against it since that's a luxury. After get my wrench and gasket scraper (previous one which uses razor blades scared me enough times to be super glued shut. Which inhibits blade change...) then went to home depot to get a pulley and rope but got talked into getting a Maasdam "pow'r-pull" which is safer than having my roommate hold a rope. While there I got more razor blades.

Moving along My cousin and I started on the two passenger side bolts. The first trick we tried was using the open end on the bolt (diff was too close to allow the closed end to slip over) and using the breaker bar to leverage the wrench against the crossmember. That worked till the nut was in such a position that we had no leverage. The next trick did work:
For this next trick you will need two people.
With the two people at opposite ends of the truck (north-south) have one person hold the wrench while the second hits the wrench. It worked like a charm and I couldn't be happier.



After we got the bolts off, a couple swings of the good old (new in my case) claw hammer and the Mother*&$&#*)@ crossmember came off

I had to massage the diff. for a bit before it finally hung low enough to work the pan out.
But wait! the pan won't come off! I massaged and massaged and no happy ending... Turns out there are FOUR bolts that hold the pick up in place
Here is the one I missed:


It is closest to the crank.

After I got that off the pan dropped and I celebrated.

you can see it in the corner



What goodies did I find?




So I cleaned the pan up and removed most of the gasket stuff left over. The strainer was pretty good so it only took a bit of brake cleaner blasting.


For reference here is my guide and tensioner. I am glad I got to it before I ate through.



That's all for today. Christ it was long but I feel like a little bit confidence came back.

For tomorrow:
- Clean gasket remains on bottom of block
- Clean gasket remains on head
- Clean gasket remains on top of block.

Maybe:
- Get head back on.
- I read somewhere that you gotta put the head on first in order to properly set up
the timing components. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Quite a day today got the crossmember off and oil pan and got three new cuts.

 

Oh and stepside where are you from?

 

Your engine is amazingly clean inside. Good thing you pulled the pan to clean out the guide parts.

When you put the oil pickup tube back on, don't forget the gasket. There's only one. It goes under the tube flange that takes 2 bolts.

Re: head or cover first, take your pick. There are pros and cons both ways. I ended up installing the head first. Either way, put the oil pan on after the cover.

 

You don't know how stoked I was when I saw the rocker arms and stuff. I couldn't believe it. Maybe it's the mobil 1? I bought castrol gtx high mileage and after seeing the rockers made me think twice about mobil 1. It's either that or regular oil changes. I'm thinking of putting the head on back first. since I got this thing. http://www.maasdam.com/

 

Oh question to all:
How do you prime the oil pump? Does it need to be done? When I rebuilt my 92 with my cousin he didn't prime it, he just ran the starter for a little bit.

 

Synthetic oils clean better (due to the esters they contain according to sb5walker, who seems to have done his research -- see this post in particular).

I packed Vaseline into my oil pump gears before putting the pump on. I recommend using something in there to prime.

BTW, a few small dabs of grease help hold the oil pump o-ring in its groove as you install the pump.

 

Oh, forgot to ask, why do you need that come-along?