Good Evening EV1.

Started at noon redoing upper and lower intake gaskets...
Still not finished...

Hopeing to have it done soon.
Have a Great Evening EV1.

 

Evening Everyone, nm goin on here just started my week long waxing process on the monte & srt

 

what a crazy night at work....

You can only imagine the look on my face when I go to lock the door, and the whole core to the lock came out with the key.... I hope the store opens tomorrow!
Don't know how I got it to go back in, but i did..

 

evening all

 

Its 930pm, Just finished the Monte..

I was surprised as to how clean the motor was on the inside after 163,000 miles. Not 1 speck of gunk to clean out! Other than the usual discoloration of years of oil running thru it. Clean up obviously was a breeze... I did find a few vacuum line connectors etc that were aged and cracked.. That I did replace.. Somehow..It feels like its running Crisper.
That is to say the pedal response.... Is instant! Even the radiator fans come on normally again! Its amazeing what changes when you end up disconnecting everything on the top end...electrical,mechanical, vacuum etc... I must have done something right!

It also came with a new thermostat thats a 180... However I kept my 190 in it... And of course new elbows, those were fun. I believe I only lost maybe 1 1/2 quarts of anti freeze! (I bought 2 gallons) I by passed draining it by clamping off the main hoses from the radiator.. I owe the minimal loss of antifreeze to that and also when I removed the Tensioner.
Not a whole lot drained from there which saved me the trouble of worrying about any contaminateing the oil.

I have 1 question though...
Has anyone ever found that on opposite ends of the intake after you remove the plenum etc....There was oil in the passenger side rear most "chamber"/"pocket" (where the 2 inner bolts on opposite sides in the pockets) My guess is... that one in particular was due to that bolt in the pocket was actually loose from the factory... Causeing oil to seep into the top of the lower manifold.

Maybe:
Mine was the only 1 like this?

More than likely I wont be on much tomorrow...
I have a 9 am eye appt. (yearly checkup)...
I think they enjoy "Dialateing" youe eyeballs...Cause once the exam is over... I cant hardly see squat for hours! They give you those funny plastic
lenses to hook on your glasses for going out doors... So, the sun doessnt blind you completely! (For those of u that wear glasses)
Your not suppose to drive yourself home afterwards... I just sneak my way back thru the neighborhood home LOL...

Have a great night EV1!
Im beat!
GoodNight!

 

A co worker of mine has been proposing a business oportunity to me every time i see him for the past week or so. I've been looking into it and asking him questions. I just signed up for this company today and theres potentially alot of money to be made if you put some work in. Hope this works out well for me The company is called Vemma http://kmaher.vemma.com

 

Keane, are you going to start selling that stuff? How much profit on a $500 investment?

 

Mine was the same way

 

Im not going to invest that much, but it comes down to how much or how little work you do.

 

Keane, best of luck with it, I didn't look into it that much but if it's something you can do, then go for it....