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I thought I had a rear main seal leak but upon further inspection the flexplate and bellhousing don't show any signs of oil. It looks like it is coming from my oil pressure sensor. I thought I was careful when I did my intake swap but apparently I wasn't careful enough. I ordered a new oil pressure sensor, carrier pinion seal, and a brake master cylinder. My brakes were getting a little weak last year so now would be a good time to replace it since I have to bleed the brakes anyway.
I finally got a chance to work on this today. I'm really digging the ease of working on the engine out of the car. I kept thinking of all the busted knuckles and scratched forearms from swapping the intake in the past while it took all of 5 min to take off today. I got the wiring harness labeled and pulled off, intake off, coolant lines crossover off, valve covers off, a little degreasing and cleaning, and swapped hardware on to the new center mount valve covers.
Got the water pump, power steering, rockers, pedestals, pushrods, head bolts, and one head off. All cylinders still have nice cross hatching but the coolant passages looked a little gummed up.
Almost down to a shortblock. I need to stop by the autoparts store and pick up a crank pulley puller.
I picked up an ice scraper to get the graphite gasket material and it gets it off good but what is the best way to keep the crap from falling in the coolant passages and lifter tray valleys?
Also, what is the best way to keep the flywheel from turning when getting the crank bolt off?
I have a pulley puller if your heading this way anytime soon it will make things a bit easier for you. As for holding the flexplate if you have a decent impact gun you can use that to break it free, sometimes you have to work at it for a while, otherwise have someone else hold a wrench one of the bolts on the flexplate when you crank on the balancer bolt. As for the old gaket I just scraped and had a shop vac nearby or even stuff some rags of paper towel lightly in the passages just dont push them down too far.
As for the old gaket I just scraped and had a shop vac nearby or even stuff some rags of paper towel lightly in the passages just dont push them down too far.
I have a pulley puller if your heading this way anytime soon it will make things a bit easier for you. As for holding the flexplate if you have a decent impact gun you can use that to break it free, sometimes you have to work at it for a while, otherwise have someone else hold a wrench one of the bolts on the flexplate when you crank on the balancer bolt. As for the old gaket I just scraped and had a shop vac nearby or even stuff some rags of paper towel lightly in the passages just dont push them down too far.
I will take you up on that offer. Can you text me your new address? I can swing by after work next week.
text sent I have anold crank bolt that we turned down the collar on that you can install to use the puller, nice thing is the puller will slide rightover the bolt so no need to back it out periosically and readjust anything. I also have a piece of threaded rod and some washers for reinstalling if youd like.
I got the crank bolt out by clamping vice grips to the flexplate to stop the engine from turning over and slipped the end of my jack handle over the breaker bar. It wasn't hard to get out by doing that.
The ice scraper isn't working as well as I thought. Maybe because it's the soft plastic type? Any suggestions for getting the graphite material off the block?
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