Head Gasket Repair starts this weekend

[dieselson]

Nice! did you guys start today?

Yeah we just started today, just the engine mounts, bellhousing bolts, and torque converter bolts are left for the engine to come out, and taking the rest of the front end off. Here is the state of the engine right now

 

[slowlmm]

Yeah we just started today, just the engine mounts, bellhousing bolts, and torque converter bolts are left for the engine to come out, and taking the rest of the front end off. Here is the state of the engine right now

still have the hardest parts left yet good start on it thoe

 

[dieselson]

Front end is off, now just the engine mounts, bellhousing bolts, and tq bolts, and the engine is out Also the ATF we drained is not looking so good

 

[dieselson]

Motor is ready to pull after 4 1/2 hours of work I'll post up a bunch of pics later, in the meantime, im gonna enjoy some hamburgers :angel:

 

[ruffmanatv]

Glad to see you guys aren't wasting anytime.

 

[dieselson]

Here's the finished product tonight

 

[Jared Duramax]

its only 7 oclock on your side you can finish it up and have the truck running by morning:rofl:

Seriously thats real good progress for one day:thumb:

 

[coldLBZ]

Congrats on the progress, and good luck getting it up and running again.

 

[LBZ]

bout time....

No Kidding!!
Get after guys!!

 

[dieselson]

By the way, we would have had it out by 6PM if we had an engine cherry picker. Thats our only limitation, but we're gonna borrow one tommorow.

 

[The Neens]

By the way, we would have had it out by 6PM if we had an engine cherry picker. Thats our only limitation, but we're gonna borrow one tommorow.

Let me know if you need mine...

 

[malibu795]

i got 2 avalibe but neither are mine :rofl:

are you going to get your truck fixed before i get mine running drew? oke:

 

[dieselson]

i got 2 avalibe but neither are mine :rofl:

are you going to get your truck fixed before i get mine running drew? oke:

Yeah my dad's friend has one here in town, and yes adam we will :rofl: we're gonna go to vegas to race on Nov. 21

 

[slowlmm]

you can come pick one up in glendale

 

[the4wheeler]

glad to hear you guy are giting it done hope it goes smothley

iv got a hoist if you need it might me a bit of a drive to git it down to you tho

 

[dieselson]

ENGINE IS OUT! Found out we have a suncoast converter and not an ATS converter :rofl:

 

[sweetdiesel]

Nice work guys Congrats on finally getting it done

 

[fajitatone]

Looking good. Now the REAL work begins!

 

[dieselson]

Alright, heres the current state of affairs. We got the heads off but with a lot of work. We broke 4 of the head bolts, which were basically welded in the block because of all the heat. Also, Dimitri said he's never seen head bolts break off in the block, so we dont know how bad the heads are warped, or the situation of the block. We are also determining whether to get just the gaskets done now, or wait, and save up to actually build the motor, because it will take so much work to correct the motor, because it is so trashed. The last pic is of the worst cylinder which is rusted with a lot of piston slap.

 

[slowlmm]

Alright, heres the current state of affairs. We got the heads off but with a lot of work. We broke 4 of the head bolts, which were basically welded in the block because of all the heat. Also, Dimitri said he's never seen head bolts break off in the block, so we dont know how bad the heads are warped, or the situation of the block. We are also determining whether to get just the gaskets done now, or wait, and save up to actually build the motor, because it will take so much work to correct the motor, because it is so trashed. The last pic is of the worst cylinder which is rusted with a lot of piston slap.

depend on wht the plans are for the truck ? you def are gonna have some machine work to do it looks like