unless I find something questionable, I'm not going to a machine shop. I'm cheap. I will do the obligatory straight-edge checks.

water jackets are already cleaned.....was a little micro surgery with joe running the big vacuum and me picking at the stuff with a hex key. puled the ??lifters?? out ....the shape of a big bottle cap with a quarter in the middle. weird. labeled and bagged them and it looks like the rest of the valve assembly is the same as my 22re.

we know VERY LITTLE about the history of this truck. PO said "new shocks, cat-back exhaust and fuel pump" and honestly, he was a VERY SCARY guy and I was more concerned for our safety and getting out of there than anything else.

 

well....it's done COLD so that's one plus. but the heads will be back on the block before we do that part.

want to at least get one head completely cleaned before starting on the other. of course, i made a mess in the garage again. LUMPY could tell ya, the garage was in pretty decent shape yesterday, but not today

 

oh while I am thinking about it and the fact your not tearing down the bottom end, get some wd-40 (not pb blaster) or a light coat of oil (wd-40 preferred) onto those cyl walls asap. spray, turn crank and spray again. Do this with both heads off so you don't have to worry too much about TDC #1 compression stroke. You don't want even the slightest about of surface rust to form on them.

 

roger that ( i need wd-40)

OK....so some pics. I painted that distributor thingy

BEFORE cleaning



after cleaning



and NOW

 

Wow, that's one RED distributor thingymadoer! lol. Nice, Jerry, ....can't wait for you and your son to fire that Veezee up!

 

go back a page also Mark....we took the heads off. pretty soon we wil have truly crested the hill and start coming down the other side

 

DANG, woooot! Those cams look really good, .....at least what I can tell from THOSE pix! hehe.

Yeah, .....I hope you don't have any bottom end issues.... I'm sure you'll be testing/verifying everything you can before slapping the heads back on, right? Looks great, man, ....excited for you guys, ...really getting close, eh?

 

a bit more progress. definitely will be happy when we are done degreasing stuff. what a mess we make.

1st pic......NEVER saw anything like this...(in my limited experience that is)....this is the sealer that was doing any sealing....it's like hard plastic.....and see-through.



here's our cleaning station to steam the head. tedious work, but with repetition and scrubbing with orange goop the steamer did the job very well.



while Joe was doing that, my helper Jeff turned over the crank after I oiled the piston walls and the I cleaned them....and covered it in saran wrap



action shot



and the finished product







and for reference, this was the driver's side head we were working on. wanted to do the worst one 1st, makes doing the 2nd one a bit easier. so here's the BEFORE pic



and we've made enough mess for the day. more importantly we've made substantial progress. work for the next 2...so maybe Joe will do some on his own

 

your not cleaning out the intake and exhaust ports?

 

I will, but the valves are still in for now....that's why it's all taped off. didn't want to mess with that today.

 

whew ok, thought you were gonna scare yourself out of messing with inside the head. lol. Get lots of carb cleaner for the inside of that head.

 

yes indeed.

gotta set up my contraption for cleaning the valves

 

realy gaing good work.

 

great job yall looks good

 

thanks guys

 

Looking really good man!!! If I had more time we would have messed about with it on Sat!!!

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The steamer is doing a really good job. Looks like you guys are really along. Keep up the good work.

 

thanks guys....yeah....it's a good little steamer.

 

have come to the realization that we are going to need a different valve spring compressor. the one i have is NOT going to work because those springs are buried and not on top like on the 22re. BRANDON......could you do some sniffing around for me on that one.....point me in the right direction...AUTO ZONE is preferred......since there is one in Berwick too. my day to get one would be wednesday or the weekend.....wednesday is preferred.

plans are.....disassemble the heads (i have bags ready) clean the valve areas / lap the valves, reassemble the heads, install the heads, install the clutch and timing belt and clean up and paint what needs to be painted in the engine bay and put the motor back in. I have to figure out a small order from the dealer ....a few things i can think of is i ordered the wrong part # for either the nuts or the bolts for the motor mounts,,,,there's also some little rubber grommets that cushion the fuel rails and some bigger rubber things that the injectors sit in.....and belts....and i'm sure other stuff.

ideas or suggestions please post up guys.

 

Jerry which one do you have?