Re: HA's 52 200 Grey Ghost
Posted by Hans Ahlness On 2014/1/25 22:14:11
Well, vacation's over and then a week on the road for work is done too. So I managed to get some time in this afternoon on the car. Today's project was engine archaeology.
Pulled the radiator out, even after prior draining still got some really gritty sludge out of the bottom. I plan to get it flushed and checked at the radiator shop anyway so no biggie there. I don't know how old the antifreeze is in there but it hasn't frozen even though it's been way below zero for most of the last month and a half. Couldn't budge the bolts holding the radiator support frame to the frame rails, I'll need to grab my impact from my main toolbox at work.
Next I removed the fuel pump heat shield, then the intake/exhaust manifolds. I like how they hid those two inner nuts in there, but everything came loose easily since I'd hit it with penetrating oil several times over the last month in anticipation. I hate breaking exhaust studs off.
Obviously the mice had been commuting through the exhaust system, 3 of the exhaust ports in the engine were full of grain. So I'll have to pull the whole exhaust and clean it out or replace it.
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Pulled the radiator out, even after prior draining still got some really gritty sludge out of the bottom. I plan to get it flushed and checked at the radiator shop anyway so no biggie there. I don't know how old the antifreeze is in there but it hasn't frozen even though it's been way below zero for most of the last month and a half. Couldn't budge the bolts holding the radiator support frame to the frame rails, I'll need to grab my impact from my main toolbox at work.
Next I removed the fuel pump heat shield, then the intake/exhaust manifolds. I like how they hid those two inner nuts in there, but everything came loose easily since I'd hit it with penetrating oil several times over the last month in anticipation. I hate breaking exhaust studs off.
Obviously the mice had been commuting through the exhaust system, 3 of the exhaust ports in the engine were full of grain. So I'll have to pull the whole exhaust and clean it out or replace it.
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