1996 Camaro Z28 LT1 Project

[alone_and_insane]

I couldn't really feel where the line from the back of the intake manifold goes to...the AIR pipe should be pretty easy to remove, it's pretty flimsy. I've had a hard time getting the AIR fittings off the headers though too. Gonna have to use some more WD-40 I guess

[alone_and_insane]

So I screwed up...I took a look at the my Haynes manual to see if there were torque specs on the rockers, and I found that it says to make sure you put the pushrods and rockers in their original places...yeah, didn't do that. How, well, screwed am I? How can I make sure each pushrod and rocker is in its proper place?

[alone_and_insane]

also, is it mandatory to do a valve adjustment when reinstalling the rockers?

[alone_and_insane]

Yesterday between asking questions, I painted my alternator.


Taped up:





Primed:





Paint & Clear:





finished:

[hoogiesngrinderz]

Using all new lifters? If so, orientation doesn't really matter. I put the oil holes facing the rear facing the flow for poops and chuckles.

Rockers and pushrods should have stayed together, but I highly doubt it's going hurt anything. Each cylinder (one at a time) will need to be at TDC of compression stroke to properly set valve lash. There is a way to do 1/2 at one time and then rotate the crank in order to do the other half.

[JoeliusZ28]

How do you remove the crank pulley bolts without the pulley turning? I tried putting the car in gear, but that didn't work.

I'm actually seriously considering abandoning the effort to replace the opti. It's just to big of a job to do in my apartment parking lot, especially considering I'm not 100% sure my opti is bad.

Baloney, me and my buddy did heads & cam in an MSU apartment parking lot

[alone_and_insane]

Baloney, me and my buddy did heads & cam in an MSU apartment parking lot

Ok, let me rephrase it then. It's too big of a job to do in an apartment parking lot if I want to drive this thing to the Dream Cruise, especially considering I'm not 100% sure the opti needs to be replaced.

Otherwise, I was feeling kind of lazy today and didn't do any more outside on the car. All I did was give the throttle body the same paint job as the alternator.

[alone_and_insane]

Disaster.




Tonight I was working on putting fittings back into the intake manifold while watching the Olympics. Then this happened:





I'm in a state of disbelief right now. I can't believe that happened...and I have no idea how the heck I'm supposed to be able to fix it...

[ryanwarby01]

You should be able to get an easyout to grab it then screw it out of there.

[alone_and_insane]

Do you know what the hose that fitting is for goes to in the first place? I don't recall at the moment. If it's something I'm deleting I could just block it off and call it good.

[masterfab]

Do you know what the hose that fitting is for goes to in the first place?

that is the brake booster line i believe. you also have one for the opti vacume below it.

[meissen]

[alone_and_insane]

Yeah I already figured out that hose is for the brakes, but that picture will be super helpful, thanks Brian.

So where can I get an easy-out?

[meissen]

O'Reilly or AutoZone should have something that would work. If not the local Sears or ACE Hardware store will.

[hoogiesngrinderz]

Any auto/hardware store should have them. What concerns me is that it looks like it snapped down in the threads a little...try to find an easy out with a slight taper and not much larger than the opening so you don't catch the intake instead of the broken part