Update on the truck, it’s partially disassembled, intake manifold is off! Getting close to removing the heads, haven’t touched the timing belt or cams yet.
Various stages of disassembly - Album on Imgur
Unfortunately the valley in the motor is disgusting, pooled oil, rat turds, and decade worth of dirt and grime. Also weirdly, I found some random things there too…
I can’t identify this, but when I removed the intake manifold, either this fell off the intake and into the coolant passage, or it was hiding in the valley and fell in there when I moved the intake. Or it dislodged itself from the inside of the motor.
Does anyone know what this is?
Random item in coolant passage - Album on Imgur
Here’s where I found it
Couple of annoyances, I lost the rearmost intake manifold nut somewhere, it came off, bounced around and was nowhere to be seen from again. I recovered the washer under the intake manifold. I also pulled one of the studs from the block. Is it weird there is coolant pooled at the bottom?
I also found these two random springs among the rat turds and grime, what the heck are these used for?