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My dads garage with a pit he got put in about 25 years ago

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another view of the pit

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my compressor

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draining the oil and coolant

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You can see the path of the oil leak here

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I will now start reomoving all that crap you see here

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Air intake hoses, upper coolant hose is removed

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The throttle cable is removed by prying upwards at the bracket to remove it and simply prying upward...

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the tranny cable is removed by pulling towards yourself and lifting up.
At the bracket towards the...

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I will now remove the belt by turning counterclockwise on the belt tensioner giving enough slack to ...

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belt removed

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After removing the fan shroud I removed the rad by removing the two bolts on the top and then removi...

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Now there is room to work

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next I removedthe plug from the egr valve and then the coolant hose at the top of the throttle body

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and this one down here by the distributor. It is easyer to loosen the clamp here than at the bottom ...

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then I removed the vacuum hoses from the throttle body. There is another one below this one.

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here I removed all the vacuum lines from the centre of the plenum

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Don't forget to remove this ground wire

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here I am demonstrating how much easier it is to work on the motor with the rad removed.

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now I am disconnecting the vacuum lines and electrical plugs from these dohickys (Its late, I can't ...

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Then I removed the egr pipe from the egr.
BE CAREFUL HERE. USE PENETRATING FLUID HERE PRIOR TO REM...

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This is the part of removing the plenum which is a hastle. You need a torx bit and a 1/4" drive wren...

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This is where the torx bit and extansion goes

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there was a groung wire secured to one of the studs at the rear of the plenum.

Also, don't forget...

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Plenum is now removed

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In this pic, you can see the other end of the egr pipe going into the center of the intake. Soak it ...

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here you can see the coil and dohickys are removed

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to make removal of the wires going to the injectors and all the sensors and such easier, I needed to...

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my finger is pointing in the direction the tool has to go in order to unlock the connection and ther...

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don't forget to unplug the knock sensor which is in the back and easily missed.

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you can't tell from this pic, but there is either mouse or rat terds here. I don't know when it woul...

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this is how I was able to incorperate the stock temp sensor along with a mechanical one. Not the bes...

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after about 25,000 kilometres, it all looks clean here

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one is still somewhat clean anyways

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now it is clean. I used what I had handy which happened to be enamel reducer.

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I went and painted my valve covers and while they are drying I went back to the heads to remove the ...

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this is a shot of the heads and the intake cleaned off of all the old gaskets

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I took the opportunity to make sure my header bolts were snug

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removal of that motor mount bolt is next, this is the driver side

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driver side again

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this is the motor mount bolt on the passenger side

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my valve covers cleaned and painted

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this is how I am going to attempt to raise the motor in order to remove the oil pan.
I secured one ...

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....and the other end around the vibration dampener.

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the motor is lifted as high as it will go

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an air ratchet is a must in my opinion to remove the bolts from the oil pan. You can do it without i...

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here the oil pan is unbolted and sitting on the crossmember

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at this point I realize that I did in fact use the rubber oil pan gasket, wich makes me wonder why i...

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this is a shot of the oil pump and pick up tube which has to be removed before the pan can come out.

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a better shot of the connection between the pickup tube and the oil pump

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I am first unbolting the pickup tube...you need to be a bit af an acrobat to do this.

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as soon as you have loosened the bolts enough, use your fingers, it will be that much quicker.

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here I am unbolting the oil pump itself, starting with the rear bolt.

I should also add that ther...

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It is so tight, I had to remove this one bolt to gain that little extra room needed to remove the pa...

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My painted valve covers look pretty good, don't thet?
They are there somewhere.

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