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Old Feb 8, 2008 | 10:26 AM
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Let me tell you, it's a bitch of a job. I just got done with mine and unless you have a heated garage... I'd wait till spring. But yea, you need to remove the upper and lower intake. Then the rocker arms, swap out the gaskets and put everything back. You end up taking half the engine apart. It would have been $600 to have a shop do it for me and now I regret it cause I'm having issues getting it to turn over
 
Old Feb 8, 2008 | 07:49 PM
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Oh man, we just put in the gaskets already, took the top cover off, the second cover, the fuel rail, the lower intake manifold cover and replaced the broken gasket. Now we are putting it back and have the following completed:

- Replaced Coolant Temperature Sensor
- Replaced T-Stat
- Replaced Radiator Hoses
- Replaced the gaskets, cleaned the gasket area, and used some ULTRA GREY Sealer
- Bolted up the cover to the gaskets.
- Replaced the Spark Plug Wires since we were already in this area.
- Cleaned the Fuel Injectors and checked for any leaking injectors. (All were okay)
- Put in the fuel rail and bolted that down.
- Hooked up any cable plugs that I and my dad could of found.

And thats were we are at. One bad thing about this car is that alot of the vacuum lines and hoses are so decayed that they are breaking easily. I will end up buying some hosing for these because of this problem. Do you guys know what chain store cells a nice long piece of vacuum hosing?
I should have the rest completed hopefully by tomorrow. The mechanic quotes us at about $790 to do this job, so we are saving alot of money on this by doing this ourselves. so far, we have spend about $80 in our quest to fix this. And this is about $30 out of the $80 in tools because our old tools were stolen .

I'll let you guys know how its going. Damn, this is alot of work for someone with MINIMAL knowledge of cars.
 
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