that looks pretty nice......

 

Yeah by now I wouldnt be surprised if you needed new head gaskets, new lower and upper intake manifold gaskets, new oil drive O ring and new valve cover gaskets. 120,000 is alot to ask of the stock gaskets on these motors.

The lower intake manifold gasket might be where you are getting the water leaking from. Either that or the head gaskets. I cant tell where you are saying the water is coming from in the photo.

 

oh i didnt know, ive never done them on a 3.4 just giving my expierience.

 

I understand I just wanted him to know that it wont be as easy on the 3.4 as it is on the 3400.

 

ahhh i see but just so i know whats the difference??

 

Everything. It's a completely different engine.

 

The 3.4 is a dohc motor. Instead of having the plugs on the back and front of the engine, they are right down in the center of the heads. To get to the back plugs, the UIM needs to be removed. You also need a long extention to get down into the holes to get the socket on the plug. The plug wires themselves have a big long head on them that go down into the head, instead of just a boot that clips on the end of the plug.

Its a pretty involved process just to change 3 plugs. For a beginner its about a 2 hour job.

 

oh i get it thats the same as teh contour i had, i thought it was some special prosses. thanks for explaining though.

 

Yeah its pretty much the same as alot of DOHC motors. The problem though is everything is pretty packed under the hood. It makes the job alot more time consuming than if you were doing it on another DOHC engine.

 

well thanks, good stuff to know.