Alright, let me share some fun i had last night :roflmao:
rolled the truck in the garage pretty enthusiastic about getting her fixed up. Let the coolant drain while i started on seeing what o-rings i got to rebuild my airdog which was a fail (see my airdog thread on that). So finished started tearing the truck down for the new water pump. got to the balancer bolt and the fun starts. put my trusty 1/2" harbor freight breaker bar on it and a jack handle extension and start going to town. I have used this bar since the moment i first built my engine. its broke loose countless balancer bolts and fly wheel bolts over the years. Its fitting its final day was back on the engine it started life on. pull, pull, pull, hear a creak and think the bolts coming loose as its slowly giving and BAM, bye bye breaker bar end.... well shit, lets give a new one a go from HF. put it on, start pulling, dont even get half as far as my OG one and BAM, that bitch breaks.
now im trying to figure out who the hell will have a 3/4" bar i can use and is close by. my buddy nate who has a 3/4" ratchet is already home with his fam so told him i may come by the next day and snag it. Last option was to call my good buddy who runs a snappy truck.... not going to be a cheap day :roflmao:. He says he has a few options and to stop by his house. get on the truck and he has no 1/2 or 3/4" breaker bars. he has a 1/2 breaker ratchet but i told him, i really dont see that holding up. he says "ok, we are going another route". goes into his personal stuff and pulls out his own 1/2" breaker bar. I said buddy, im really afraid ill snap that. ive already broke two, granted they are chinesium subgrade material but this thing is taking a shit ton of torque. So he pulls out what i would could only say is the sweet baby jesus of torque wrenches. a 4 ft 3/4" snappy torque wrench that goes to 700ft lbs.
yes i know to some of you all, that big shit aint nothing but when you dont ever work with it or see this stuff, its like a gold scepter when you need to get a f**king balancer bolt off. He says, turn the torque all the way up and if it clicks (which i highly dooubt it will), dont keep pulling on it or it will kill the calibration. 10-4, you got it. told him id try the 1/2 breaker bar first. get back home, throw the breaker bar on first, start pulling at what i feel is an unreasonable amount of power now with my jack handle on it and BAM, breaks. Holy f**k.
Ok mother f**ker, im not asking any more, its time for big bertha. i crank it to 600ft lbs thinking theres no reason to go higher, get down in the bay and start pulling on that. Im damn near giving it everything i got and "click", torque wrench clicks. oh.... my.... god.... what in the f**k did i do when i put this bitch on years ago. yes im cussing alot, get over it :roflmao:. so i try a few more times thinking maybe it was just the bolt clicking coming loose. nope, this sucker is the torque wrench clicking. So i turn it up to 650.... click, torque wrench goes off. turn it up to 700 and cross my fingers, wrench goes click, BAM. im like, shit. i just broke the freaking 3/4 torque wrench, this is NOT going to be cheap to fix. i look down, no, its all in tack and its still ratcheting fine. so i pull on it again and watch as the damn bolt is finally coming loose! thank god...
rest of the tear down goes as expected. get the old pump out and see the weld on the gear has cracked all the way around. boy this is good timing. No weld on the impeller side either which i understand after trying to weld that damn thing. i can also see bad wear on the gear teeth. this was a "noisy pump" from when it seems ac delco couldnt make the gear pitch correct and caused them to whine when putting them in. mine did that for about 2 years and finally quieted up, the wear shows it lol. slam it all back in, fix a broke ODLO wire at the pin in the tcm and replaced the hydroboost.
finished up at about 12:30 last night/this morning. all seems well, no leaks and everything works. also checked the front end over, one upper ball joint has a bit of slop in it but not much, thinking thats my noise so i loaded a little grease into it for now.
boy that was fun :rofl: :happy2:
rolled the truck in the garage pretty enthusiastic about getting her fixed up. Let the coolant drain while i started on seeing what o-rings i got to rebuild my airdog which was a fail (see my airdog thread on that). So finished started tearing the truck down for the new water pump. got to the balancer bolt and the fun starts. put my trusty 1/2" harbor freight breaker bar on it and a jack handle extension and start going to town. I have used this bar since the moment i first built my engine. its broke loose countless balancer bolts and fly wheel bolts over the years. Its fitting its final day was back on the engine it started life on. pull, pull, pull, hear a creak and think the bolts coming loose as its slowly giving and BAM, bye bye breaker bar end.... well shit, lets give a new one a go from HF. put it on, start pulling, dont even get half as far as my OG one and BAM, that bitch breaks.
now im trying to figure out who the hell will have a 3/4" bar i can use and is close by. my buddy nate who has a 3/4" ratchet is already home with his fam so told him i may come by the next day and snag it. Last option was to call my good buddy who runs a snappy truck.... not going to be a cheap day :roflmao:. He says he has a few options and to stop by his house. get on the truck and he has no 1/2 or 3/4" breaker bars. he has a 1/2 breaker ratchet but i told him, i really dont see that holding up. he says "ok, we are going another route". goes into his personal stuff and pulls out his own 1/2" breaker bar. I said buddy, im really afraid ill snap that. ive already broke two, granted they are chinesium subgrade material but this thing is taking a shit ton of torque. So he pulls out what i would could only say is the sweet baby jesus of torque wrenches. a 4 ft 3/4" snappy torque wrench that goes to 700ft lbs.
yes i know to some of you all, that big shit aint nothing but when you dont ever work with it or see this stuff, its like a gold scepter when you need to get a f**king balancer bolt off. He says, turn the torque all the way up and if it clicks (which i highly dooubt it will), dont keep pulling on it or it will kill the calibration. 10-4, you got it. told him id try the 1/2 breaker bar first. get back home, throw the breaker bar on first, start pulling at what i feel is an unreasonable amount of power now with my jack handle on it and BAM, breaks. Holy f**k.
Ok mother f**ker, im not asking any more, its time for big bertha. i crank it to 600ft lbs thinking theres no reason to go higher, get down in the bay and start pulling on that. Im damn near giving it everything i got and "click", torque wrench clicks. oh.... my.... god.... what in the f**k did i do when i put this bitch on years ago. yes im cussing alot, get over it :roflmao:. so i try a few more times thinking maybe it was just the bolt clicking coming loose. nope, this sucker is the torque wrench clicking. So i turn it up to 650.... click, torque wrench goes off. turn it up to 700 and cross my fingers, wrench goes click, BAM. im like, shit. i just broke the freaking 3/4 torque wrench, this is NOT going to be cheap to fix. i look down, no, its all in tack and its still ratcheting fine. so i pull on it again and watch as the damn bolt is finally coming loose! thank god...
rest of the tear down goes as expected. get the old pump out and see the weld on the gear has cracked all the way around. boy this is good timing. No weld on the impeller side either which i understand after trying to weld that damn thing. i can also see bad wear on the gear teeth. this was a "noisy pump" from when it seems ac delco couldnt make the gear pitch correct and caused them to whine when putting them in. mine did that for about 2 years and finally quieted up, the wear shows it lol. slam it all back in, fix a broke ODLO wire at the pin in the tcm and replaced the hydroboost.
finished up at about 12:30 last night/this morning. all seems well, no leaks and everything works. also checked the front end over, one upper ball joint has a bit of slop in it but not much, thinking thats my noise so i loaded a little grease into it for now.
boy that was fun :rofl: :happy2:
