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05-24-2006, 04:33 PM
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Loved your blog. Unfortunately, most of the work is between me and the car. Defintely replacing the hoses to the ICV before reassembly.
05-24-2006, 04:34 PM
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Hey MBC, clean the air stabilizer really well while you are in there, I regret not doing that... my line replacement helped idle a lot, but I should have cleaned the damned device more.
05-24-2006, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by MyBlackCar
The Factory Manuals says the head washers can not rotate when torquing. How did you guys pull off this trick?
05-24-2006, 04:35 PM
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Originally Posted by 75ohm
Hey MBC, clean the air stabilizer really well while you are in there, I regret not doing that... my line replacement helped idle a lot, but I should have cleaned the damned device more.
05-24-2006, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by streckfu's951
I went to Home Depot and bought a 4 ft section of threaded pipe that my 1/2" socket drive would fit inside of. Since then, I bought dedicated breaker bar.
05-24-2006, 04:57 PM
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You're going to love the 2 cheesehead bolts that go through the bleeder pipe, the head, and into the block. Other than that and cleaning the surfaces, it wasn't a boring or difficult job. Manifold bolts and studs came out nicely for me.
05-24-2006, 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by yellowline
You're going to love the 2 cheesehead bolts that go through the bleeder pipe, the head, and into the block. Other than that and cleaning the surfaces, it wasn't a boring or difficult job. Manifold bolts and studs came out nicely for me.
05-24-2006, 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by yellowline
Hmm, maybe they were Allen. Front of the block, holding down the right angle piece that attaches to the upper rad hose.
05-24-2006, 11:16 PM
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The head of the bolt isn't the problem, they go right by a cooling passage and tend to freeze into the block. You can't remove the head easily with the broken studs stuck in the block. My car needed helicoils.
05-25-2006, 08:37 AM
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It was on my car when we did the belts/seals/pump job. I was on the passenger's side of the car shouting some ludicrous obscenity that included many references to bad mother's and their unlawful carnal knowledge... I thought I was going to either cave in the front quarter panel or blow blood vessels in my eyes -- one or the other if there was another 10 seconds worth...
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