I had to cut the manifold to exaust flange bolts today, they were way too rusted and three days of soaking in WD40 they were still not budging even with a 1/2" impact wrench.
Bought a 7.00 air powered cutting wheel from harbor frieght, (love the selection quality is terrible) worked perfectly got the passenger side cut today, cut the drivers tomorrow. The tools works great, my ****** small compressor is being overworked and need to stop and let it catch it's breath, time for an upgrade!
Dropped the oil cooler, but unable to wiggle out in either forward or rear direction. I'm wondering if an engine can go in our out with that on? If not what is the process for ensuring a great seal when re-installing?
Will work on the tranny bolts tomorrow and I'm thinking due to the requirement that I pull the torque converter with the motor, I will need the transmission jack to raise as I raise the motor out. I was thinking jacks would work but in thinking it thru tonight, that transmission will raise with the motor at lease 4-8 inches as I begin to pull the engine, the tranny will need to come with it....any thoughts??
Also, the motor mounts look straight forward, but wanted to check, my assumption is to take out the 4 nuts from the underside and I expect the mounts will stay attached to the engine when I pull it, is this a correct assumption?
For anyone wanting to follow via pictures, I'm taking pictures as I go, not able to post them all and not all on time, but lots posted here:
http://community.webshots.com/user/ferrellmedia
"icanfixall", I hope your right, but I heard NOTHING, no metal/metal sounds, just a violent stopping which in turn shook the entire truck. I would say it acted just as I would expect if the cylinder was attempting to compress liquid.
My best guess at this point is EITHER stuck injector flooding cylinder with fuel, OR cavitation got to number 8 and anti-freeze entered cylinder....
I'm travelling tomorrow to look at this rebuilt 7.3 for 1700.00, (which I think is an incredible deal) and so far I feel realy comfortable with the "back-story" and I will trust my gut.
I don't think I could rebuild this motor for that price doing the work myself, (which I don't think I could do without the extremely likely risk of making a very expensive mistake). I can tear it down, but I know it takes experience to do a complete sucessfull and zero mistake rebuild.