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Old 09-22-11, 12:17 AM
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Engine install day!!
ok im about ready to drop in the new motor. im planning for the weekend of the 30th of this month. gonna need another set of hands if anyone is down. let me know asap. i gotta get this thing in before the rain never stops lol.
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Old 09-23-11, 02:16 AM
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Damn! I would so help you with this... But I will be out of town/state for a wedding. :-/
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Old 09-23-11, 11:10 PM
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daaamn. comon people wheres the love lol. u get hands on experience with this!




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Did you paint it assembled? Interesting color choice. You should see what colors I went with.
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I shall check my work schedule. I is be in Tacompton. :P
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Just kidding your an hour away and i work thst day.
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Old 09-24-11, 07:30 AM
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ya it was a bitch to mask off too haha
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Hey man... I wish you luck on your engine install today. Wish I were in town.
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starting it today. hopefully ill have it done by monday. dont have a cherry picker. using a chain and come-along to the rafters of my car port
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I so hope them rotten *** rafters hold up son. Maybe add couple 2x4 to brace that **** at the base? It does hav a gangsta lean goin on.
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Well regardless ill have to put it off again. Shitty weather this whole week and my help flaked on me
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I'd help. But I just realized... I live like an hour and a half from you. My car is a bitch on gas, and I still don't have a job. I do love being around FC's, though.
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well the engine is in. it runs and pulls hard, idles like ****. i think it may be a vaccum leak. i had to use rtv cuz my manifold gaskets were destroyed. FML
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Why didn't you buy new gaskets?
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Lol they dont exactly carry them in every auto parts store. I didnt wanna wait another week to get them. Ill order them this week. I just needed the car runnin before the weekend was over
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dont have a cherry picker. using a chain and come-along to the rafters of my car port
Woah, that is ballsy. If I wasen't so busy with trying unsuccessfully to keep up with all the stuff going on in my life I would have thrown my cherry picker in the back of the B2000 and drove on down to give you a hand. Reality is life too F'in busy and I don't get enough FC3S time. Boo.
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ya i ended up borrowing a cherry picker. just having a problem with the idle now. theres a noise coming from the engine bay i cant put my finger on. almost a whining. and also if i step on the gas real hard (also in any gear climbing a hill)i hear a knocking/tinging in the engine bay. one ding when im not moving and consistent when im driving up a small hill. wtf is that about?
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If it was a fb I would say timing. Not sure about fc crap
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Old 10-03-11, 08:14 PM
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ya i adjusted the CAS and everything to how it was supposed to b set. theirs a dot on the gear on the bottom u have to line up with the shaft notch when u put it in. even moving it around while it was running did nothing
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Old 10-03-11, 09:33 PM
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Is something lose? I had that problem - it was my intercooler pipe knocking against something.
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i re adjusted the CAS to factory. still runs a little rough at idle under 1k but the pinging sound stopped and it doesnt take that long to start it anymore. i can hear a hissing on the back side of the back side of the engine where the lower manifold bolts up. im pretty sure RTV isnt working. ill have to order some gaskets this payday
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yeah, rtv isn't the best. worst thing that i have done in the long past was trying to reuse the old gasket on a 12a, with the gasket just being a little off kilter had snapped my intake manifold. wish i could say it only happened once, but this cheap *** did it twice.
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lol oh ****! ya if the corner or something is missing on the gasket and u tighten it, the corner of the mani will break off
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RTV is bad stuff for manifolds, I took the maifold off an engine im putting in Old Red and the ports were almost completly blocked with the crap.
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got the new LIM gasket in. idles perfect now! runs strong and smooth
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