Blown HG on a 92 5-spd -- fixing it right
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yeah-- did that too-- when I had the block all the way down to just the pistons and rods-- crankshaft out. I used a pressure washer that pulled de-greaser into the air stream and flushed all the oil galleys out until I saw clear fluid running out of all the oil feed ports to the main bearing saddles.
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Pic is at the beginning of a 3 hr process before we had it sitting on the all the mounts. I should have left that drivers side motor mount off!
Saturday-- is wiring and detail work, but I'm determined to have this car running by Saturday afternoon.
Good thing I took a bunch of pics of the engine bay before I took the engine out. There are a ton of little brackets and vacuum lines, but I used colored sticky page markers to color code what line went where.
Saturday-- is wiring and detail work, but I'm determined to have this car running by Saturday afternoon.
Good thing I took a bunch of pics of the engine bay before I took the engine out. There are a ton of little brackets and vacuum lines, but I used colored sticky page markers to color code what line went where.
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Good idea. Let me know if you need help with anything. If you are close and run into issues I can stop by. If you want I can PM you my number. Time for things to work right! Good Luck.
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I went with Royal Purple Syncromax in the gearbox, and this morning drained the Havoline oil and pulled the filter that I had on the rebuild for about a hour of idling time last night. That oil had the combo of Red Line assembly lube, vasoline--from the oil pump pack, and Magic Marvel Mystery Oil--to free up the piston rings and help the valve guides along. It came out dark with only the one hour of run time.
I filled it with Royal Purple 10W30 and fitted a OEM oil filter I bought at the dealer.
The only issue is a noise from the clutch release bearing. I put a new one in with a new pilot bearing and also a new clutch disk. But it sounds like the pressure plate is still lightly contacting the pressure plate fingers even when fully released. I can't remember if the slave cylinder rod has any length adjustment to it. But if it does I may try to shorten it just a tad. The noise immediately goes away when just barely loading the release bearing with the pedal. I am worried that with the release bearing rotating all the time, the life will be shortened a lot.
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