Head gasket job

steviek · #1 04-05-2009, 02:17 PM

Ok well as you well know my HG blew out attempting to use nlts. I'm not saying the NLTS was the cause of the failure I'm just saying it happened when it was engaged.

The gasket looked pretty bad. There was supposed to be a cometic in there but when I got it off it looks like the guys who did my engine rebuild just put on some composite thing that blew out.

|The damage was done on the far front left side of the gasket near cylinder one (or the first passenger side cylinder)

The metal seal where the oil flows is clearly damaged and there was some warpage above that on the gasket.

So thats the bad

The good

Cams look great!

Cam gears No problem

Pistons no hot spots or metal shavings!

Block no cracks or deep scrapes etc

Thats where its at right now

Still nervous about this IM fitment.

Time will tell!

david-b · #2 04-05-2009, 03:10 PM

Sweet! Looks good so far.

NateS · #3 04-05-2009, 05:53 PM

Looks like someone forgot to drain the coolant out of the block before pulling off the head haha. I've done that before... makes a hell of a mess. You probably already know this but, FYI, there is a very short hose on the driver side of the car in the front by the oil filter housing(I think) you can pull off. This will completely drain the entire coolant system.

Congrats on everything being in good shape. It sucks getting that composite stuff off of the block. I used a razor blade and did it by hand. After a few head gasket jobs I bought this rubber bristle attachment for an air drill. Works great but, you have to go slow. Still faster than a razor blade.

SilvrEclipse · #4 04-05-2009, 06:08 PM

Looks good man, glad nothing else got damaged.

steviek · #5 04-05-2009, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Just a GSX fan

Looks like someone forgot to drain the coolant out of the block before pulling off the head haha. I've done that before... makes a hell of a mess. You probably already know this but, FYI, there is a very short hose on the driver side of the car in the front by the oil filter housing(I think) you can pull off. This will completely drain the entire coolant system.

Congrats on everything being in good shape. It sucks getting that composite stuff off of the block. I used a razor blade and did it by hand. After a few head gasket jobs I bought this rubber bristle attachment for an air drill. Works great but, you have to go slow. Still faster than a razor blade.

haha yeap my bad on the coolant. I had to fill it to test if there was a HG problem by shooting compressed air into the cylinder so needless to say there was a lot of mess.

Blackcrow64 · #6 04-05-2009, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by steviek

...so needless to say there was a lot of mess.

That's what she said...

ned032002 · #7 04-05-2009, 09:38 PM

That reminds me of when I changed the HG in the Thunderbird. Everything is looking good. Keep the pics coming when you install the SMIM

steviek · #8 04-19-2009, 10:20 PM

UPDATE TIME

Made a lot of progress all things considered it should be done TOMORROW CANT WAIT

found that the exhaust mani gasket had a crack in it so its gone

Lowereing the beauty and the beast into position on some brand spankin new ARP head studs

Hows that for fitment!

Time for the water next and etc to get reattached

Attempting to show the head studs getting clamped down to torque specs

Attached my new 2.5 ID 90 degree coupler . It was a tad small so it was hard to get on but I made it work with some help !

Then I had to take it off again to cut off a half an inch to make it line up better with my uicp and also create new room for the battery

Clamped down hard that coupler isn't going anywhere
also note the room left for the small bat going in

steviek · #9 04-19-2009, 10:21 PM

timing belt back on and ready for everything to start getting reattached and finalized !!

Thats where she sits right now!

LMK what you think!
Im pumped

SilvrEclipse · #10 04-19-2009, 10:50 PM

Looks awesome. Im not so sure I would advise workin on your dsm tmrw though.

steviek · #11 04-19-2009, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by SilvrEclipse

Looks awesome. Im not so sure I would advise workin on your dsm tmrw though.

interesting but why?

lol NEVERMIND
figured it out

that will be afterwards happy 420

vanilla gorilla · #12 04-20-2009, 12:31 AM

Good job. I've had to do a few head jobs on cars. Sucks the first time, but not so bad after that. I was about to say you might as well go ahead and throw some cams in there while you got it apart, but then I looked at your mod list and realized that you already had them. Get it back up and running and pull us some 3 sec 0-60 runs.

NateS · #13 04-21-2009, 06:51 PM

Congrats on the progress so far. Looks great. What SMIM did you put on?

steviek · #14 04-21-2009, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Just a GSX fan

Congrats on the progress so far. Looks great. What SMIM did you put on?

Thanks the job is done now !!!

I don't have any new pics yet I will snap some.

My coil pack is mounted where the egr valve used to be. I gotta clean up some vac lines and hopefully the spark wires too but shes running strong

Its a 2g JmF street version! polished w/ oem map sensor bung. From Extreme that would cost over 600 us plus shipping to canada. I got it for 400 cad new cause I'm a hustla haha

SilvrEclipse · #15 04-21-2009, 07:54 PM

Glad to see its back on the road

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