my formula project...It's alive! Mwuahahahahaha

[Formula Z]

well I went out to the garage today and disaasembled the motor a little more. removed the ls1 heads, headgaskets, motor mounts, valley pan/plate, oil pan, pickup, and windage tray. most of that will go to work and sit in the hot tank for a while to be cleaned up. i so badly want to pull the main caps and check the bearings since im this far into the teardown, but dont want to open up a can of worms. i dont have the extra funds to replace rod bolts and rings even though i know i should. well heres a couple pics and i even sat the new LS6 heads on to show you, lol.

[OIF1VET]

Sweet dude!

[Formula Z]

my motor is so dirty, there is dried up oil everywhere. i need to clean it but afraid of screwing something up

[c0ncEpT]

I wouldn't mess with the bottom end. You should never remove a bearing cap with out replacing the bearing IMO.

[Formula Z]

yeah thats what i figured, but im going to kick myself if i spin a bearing

[Darren]

Looking god Mike! Just clean up the block a little and it would really look amazing. Are you thinking about painting the block at all?

[Formula Z]

well my 3.73s are in and so is the rebuild kit for the rear diff. rear sat in the hot tank and should be being assembled today. should be able to reinstall it this weekend. now to get the rest done

[Fbomb]

Cool. What were your headgaskets like when you pulled your old heads? Did you have to scrape anything off of the mating surface?
I'm assuming that threads have to be cleaned as well but what thread are they?

[DETROITMUSCLE]

well my 3.73s are in and so is the rebuild kit for the rear diff. rear sat in the hot tank and should be being assembled today. should be able to reinstall it this weekend. now to get the rest done

very nice I didn't know you were familiar with setting up gearsets I need to learn how. Also Vinnie to clean the bolt holes you can just use an old head bolt and grind two sides flat. The prevent getting coolant everywhere I recommend taking a shop vac to the waterpump openings after its removed and the heads will come off one dry

[Formula Z]

my headgasket came off pretty good. i did clean up the surface though with some soft 3m cookies and a grinder, being careful not to take any metal with it.

oh yeah my rear diff is going home with me today so it will be re installed this week.

anyone need some stock 3.23s. i was amazed at how good they still look

[c0ncEpT]

Vinnie your going to need to scrape and prep the surface regardless of what it looks like when you take the old gaskets off. You need a perfectly clean and smooth mating surface to ensure proper sealing of the gaskets.

very nice I didn't know you were familiar with setting up gearsets I need to learn how. Also Vinnie to clean the bolt holes you can just use an old head bolt and grind two sides flat. The prevent getting coolant everywhere I recommend taking a shop vac to the waterpump openings after its removed and the heads will come off one dry

The shop vac method works wonders. Just suck everything out of the water pump holes before you pull the heads and you will save yourself a lot of mess for when you take the heads off. Almost no coolant should come out when you pull the heads if you do it this way. Its still good measure that you at least tampon all the bolt holes tho. Last thing you want is to crack your block while torquing the heads.

[Formula Z]

anyone in the grand rapids area have a crank pulley tool/puller? ive tried two different ones and cant get the damn thing off. or maybe a pic or part number for the correct tool

[OIF1VET]

anyone in the grand rapids area have a crank pulley tool/puller? ive tried two different ones and cant get the damn thing off. or maybe a pic or part number for the correct tool

This is the tool I used to remove mine last summer...http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/tools-...tool-pics.html
pics are in 1st post.. Original seller no longer frequents tech, but on the last page, post 402 there is a guy selling the same tool for 45 bucks.. I know you would rather borrow something, but thought I'd throw it out there..

[Formula Z]

that looks like an installation tool not removal?????

[OIF1VET]

that looks like an installation tool not removal?????

Doh! Alzheimers kicking in... Let me retract previous post, this is the tool I used for installation..