jhall Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Yeehaaa, Installed the water pump manifold Friday and finished up the front brakes. Filled up the fluid levels and cranked - and cranked- and cranked. Actually, I did the oil pump prime procedure as detailed in the Helms manual - pulled the power from the ICM and cranked the engine for 30 seconds. I replace the ICM connector and it wouldn't start - got nervous. Checked for spark, listened for the fuel pump - all OK. My wife got in and cranked while I tried to hear if the injectors were clicking - it started to catch and on the 6th or 7th crank it started up. Bbobynski told me to just fire it up, but I was too concerned about the oil pressure. Even with the crank procedure, I was sweating bullets at start-up because the oil light took a little longer to drop off than I was comfortable with. After a couple of start cycles the light dropped out in the (more familar) shorter time. I had a couple of lifters doing a tap dance because I messed around with them while I had the heads pulled down. (used a clamp to see if they were still good - yeah, Guru nailed me for that one). Happy to say that once the engine got warm and I raised the RPM, they pumped up and it runs so quite that the crickets were louder than the car was tonight! I did note that some smoke was exiting the exhaust pipe when I goosed the engine (in park) after everything checked out. Not sure if this is a temporary thing. I should be able to see better detail in the daylight tomorrow. See attached pic of the completed engine before I replaced the hood. Headed to the car wash tomorrow to wash her down and get the dust off from 8 months of sitting on the concrete pad. Thanks to everyone for the help on the rebuild - especially bbobnyski. The detail on the power train was extremely helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adallak Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 jhall is the man! good job, glad you have got the job done. The saddest thing in life is wasted talent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMDTS Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Good job These repairs take time when you have to do them in your spare time. An hr. here and there adds up. Good Luck Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Congratulations! Great job. Let us know how she is running and what the total cost was for parts and special tools if any. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navion Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 Jhall, Absolutely wonderful. I understand the "sweating bullets" comment. I go through the same when firing up a $30,000+ aircraft engine for the first time. It kind of makes you glad that you have an assembly checklist. The "sweating bullets" feeling is usually closely followed by a sense of relief and a sense of accomplishment. I believe that anyone who goes through this process from beginning to end is forgiven for the ego boost that a successful rebuild brings. Britt Britt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted July 10, 2005 Report Share Posted July 10, 2005 I can't wait for my head gaskets to go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonA Posted July 11, 2005 Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 Congratulations! I know it's been a long road, so to speak. Jason(2001 STS, White Diamond) "When you turn your car on...does it return the favor?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhall Posted July 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2005 Hi guys, Thanks. Cleaned it up really good today and got off all the grime. I'll take a pic tomorrow and send it. Driving it to work in the AM for a "flight test". It's about 80 miles round trip. It runs great and the smoke from goosing the throttle (in park) is gone. Had a very small leak at the small hose on the water pump. A quarter turn and it cleared up. Got a PO153 code on the front O2 sensor. Although I changed the rear sensor while the engine was out of the car, I figured any others would be relatively easy to access. I recalled that an O2 code was setting after the head gasket failed, but I couldn't remember which sensor. Another $60 and I should be OK. I'll put a list of parts and machine costs together along with the few tools I bought (amazingly I only needed two new ones, so I consider myself lucky). Again, thanks very much to all of you for the help and comments. I make this much easier to wade through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldgamer Posted July 13, 2005 Report Share Posted July 13, 2005 I can't wait for my head gaskets to go! Scotty, you make me lough jhall, Congratulations! It's always amased me, when people do projects like this. I wish I was so brave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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