I know I was just kidding. Lol as for the lockers yea sometimes it scares me cuz I feel it shake throught the truck. But once in a while you can feel it coming before it happens. I feel it getting tighter as I'm turning sometimes. And I'm like ooo oooo oooo I can feel it! Its gonna pop! Just to give passengers a fair warning lol. Then when it happens they're like Wtf was that!?! And That is not normal you should get the checked out haha. Then I gotta go into the explanations of why it happens and what causes it to pop hahaha

 

Haha. I know what you mean. I had a buddy in mine a while ago and he was like "did we just lose the rear end". Haha. I was like yeah its on the ground back there but were still driving. Hahahaha.

 

Well I picked up the cylinder head from the machinist yesterday. Was going to put everything together but only to find that one if the students cut up the only GOOD valve spring compressor to use in his DSM cyl head.... Needless to say I was a little irritated. But anyhow I took it back to the machinist to have him help me out with puttin the valves and springs in. Good thing it all worked out this way because he said I should to a full valve job to make sure everything seals up well. And going to cut me a deal at 95$ for the valve job and assembly. Not to bad and should have it done Monday.

Kind of excited because this is the last thing I really need to do before I pull the engine out of my runner.

Anyhow, here are a few pics.
Before:


After:

 

Gosh... that's nice only having one head to deal with lol

 

I know!!! I pity you guys that have to get two heads done. I'm glad that when I owned my excab 3.0 it never needed any engine work. It was a great running vehicle

 

Well much to my surprise my machinist called me a few hours ago and said the head was done!!! So I picked it up and will be slapping it on the engine tomorrow morning. Once I get it all buttoned up, I will start pulling the engine in my runner.

I'll post up some pics of the head later.

 

Well got the head picked up.

Valve job done



Chased the head bolt threads before installation.


Got deck face prepped and new OEM gasket, then installed head
Head sitting cam installed




Head torqued down!!


Test fitting the valve cover to see if I like the color combo


Need to take care of a few odds and ends. Like the rear main seal I put in somehow mushroomed out??? Have to replace it again.

And worked on this a bit also

 

hell yea!

 

nice pics!

Is that the 5.0 ford??

 

Im pumped to get it in and running. I cant wait to feel the difference.

Thanks chris!! Yeah thats for jasons 5.0 mustang that was in the shop when you guys stopped by. We are trying to get it back together as quick as we can.

 

Holy crap how the heck did I let this update slip past me. That's great Gizler. when does it go on? I hope soon.

 

Thanks man. Well I wanted to get it in this week but that's not going to happen. We are going to be in and out the next two weeks and its going to have to wait till the start of July. Kind of stinks but it will just give me more time to aquire stuff I want but don't need. Haha

 

bummer about having to wait bit if it means being ab ablelr to get stuff you want but don't need then I guess it'll be worth the wait. Lol

 

it will be in soon enough!!

 

Few more Pics

 

Dang Gizler too bad you guys live far away. I would live to go offroading with you guys. Geez...

Hey are you running wheel spacers or is that all wheel backspacing that makes your tires stick out that much?

 

The last pic is SICK!! Out with the old....in with the NEW!!

 

I hear you there. We wish we lived out west so there were actually places to go wheeling.

No wheel spacers. It's all rim. 15x10's I don't remember what the back spacing is. But they definitely stick way out. Makes it hard to keep clean

 

Thanks Chris!!

 

But no more water leaks!!