HG Questions

[Gravy]

Ok, quick update and input from everyone on what to do...

I tried 4 diferent sized easy outs, small, little larger, medium and almost as big as the bolt it's self. All of them would grab, the large one finally got it to break the lock-tite but stripped the outside of the drilled hole and can't get it to grip again. I"m almost done grinding the head of the bolt off and will finish with another few hours of drilling. Then i'll try another easy out, or grab the vice grip and remove the stud.

[JET]

Try the vice grip first.

[Gravy]

Will try that after i get the head off, not going to get down there.

[Gravy]

New post, new questions....

Ok, i got the head off today, and the bolt should be no problem coming out, however after my last HG install i've noticed a few different things between the cars. First off, the car just recently had a HG done on it. I know because the car i worked on before was a 91, and the gasket looked like ass from being in there so long. So, this being said, do you think the head is warped and that's why the guy sold it? Or could it be the valve stem seals? I"ve got them, and renting a valve spring tool next paycheck to replace the seals. But meanwhile, i'm going to be working on the rest of the car.

The gasket stuck to the head a little, for example the gasket material is sticking like duct tape does, to both the block and the head. I thought about using steel wool to clean it up, but how much can you scuff the head up before you need it re-surfaced?

Also, is it normal to have a burnt on oil residue on the top of all 4 cylinders? The other car i did a HG on had very dark, or stained on oil, but this one seems to be.... dirty, chunky. The walls of #2(cylinder with bad compresion, mixed up 2 and 3, oops) are smooth and very shiny just like all the others. So i don't think i need to re-hone, but the option is still there if it needs it.

I found out where the issue was, part of hte gasket formed a crack between one of the water holes and the cylinder and was slowly burning off in the cylinder. More white powder on the underside of the head and the top of the piston. Oil was also filtering into this "Crack" and found oil in my coolant when i drained the radiator.

Also, i've looked at the intakes of a few of the DSM's in the junk yard and even a 1.8 and there was oil in the intake of the car, and in the manifold on the different cars. This one, the intake side, or the side closer to the turbo is totaly clean, and there's no oil in the pipes when we got the car, and ever since workign on it. Now, that being said the inside of the intake manifold is CAKED in oil and black sludge if you whipe it off. I'll clean the intake with some carb cleaner, but it's obvious that oil is getting in somehwere, but i have the valve cover hose to the intake filtered out but should i filter the back hose as well? I figure that's where the oil is coming from, but i don't know if there is osmething i'm missing. Which... is possible.

Thanks for any advise, i'll be working on putting it together agian slowly over the next week or two. Heads off, hard parts done, now it's clean up and re-install time.

Gravy

[Febo]

That oil is probablly from before we re-routed that hose. And I do beleive that other big hose on the backside of the mani connects into the air can anyways. If its the one Im thinking of.

[Gravy]

It also looks like we need the kind of valve compresor on VFAQ and not a normal store bought one i asume?

After an hour of trying ot figure it out while cleanign the head, i give up. May have to do it after the head is back on.

[Febo]

Hell no, do your valve work before it gets back on. Trust me.

[Gravy]

Too late, the too i got(free till tomorow) doesn't fit on the car. It didn't fit over where the valve cover sits onto the spring and on the valve it's self. Trust me, i looked at VFAQ and all over the place with NO luck and the tools i saw had a lowered lip to hold onto the springs.

Update and new question time.

I've got a Haynes manual at home, and i tried installing the timing belt. But there is no way in HELL that thing will fit. I think my tensioner is shot and there's no way to get it back in. So, going to have to get that looked into tomorow and hopefully finished. May be running down to brookdale mitsu tomorow.

The lower intake manifold bolts, is there any special trick to getting them in or just feeling for the hole and threading them in? I'm horrible at this in all forms of life.

Anyone know of a local shop that carries a lower timing belt cover? The one that came off the car has no right going back on.

[tim]

Post up in the WTB for the lower cover.

As far as the tensioner, you will either need the tool or you will have to take it off and compress it in a vice and put a pin back in it for the install.

IMO, you should have the factory service manual not a haynes.

[Gravy]

I had my 200 lbs fat ass pushing down on it and no luck. I'm going to try the vice idea tonight, it's off the car and as far as i can tell, fully extended. There's about an 1/8 of an inch sticking out of the tensioner past the arm it's supose to rest on. Damn this car.... So fun to drive, but exauhsting to work on.