So close! I had four hours of wrench time today. I wanted to drive it back home. All I have left to do is the out the intake tube back on
Wife wants me to head straight home after work.
I wrapped the engine harness with some tesa tape too and mounted the harness with some AC clamp mounts from Napa. 1/2 would work best I had 1 inch and it was lose.
But overall it came out super clean. I got some M6x1.0 to bolt the back of the harness to the intake manifold it was missing originally.
And the fuel line that comes the charcoal canister was missing bolts to. That's all mounted now.
This job was definitely needed for this engine! Glad it's done.
Torque the valve covers took the longest. Quadrupled checked the values
And some tips for anyone doing this. Scott Professional Glass towers which are lint free great for cleaning the mating surfaces. 3xbrass brushes (just get the same brush) the bristles get out of whack after continued use. And a 3/8 drive Quinn digital torque wrench. It only goes as low as 60inch lbs. But the torque wrench will start registering values at 45 ft lbs.
If I didn't have the torque wrench I would be a sitting duck. I have both Quinn digital torque wrenches and I highly recommend those to anyone building engines or repairing tthem. It gives you degrees of swing, and it can jump between all the different units of measurement for torque values.and because it will show you the value you are currently at as you keep tightening up to the torque spec, it's really easy to pre torque everything to whatever value you want then go back around and torque to the final value.
If you haven't checked them out already you need to!!!!!!!!! Christmas is around the corner!
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