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As usual, I forgot to wash the engine before diving in. But it's fairly clean, other than what the s...
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202 hits | 94.98 KB | Posted: 6/21/20

Maybe it's not quite as clean as I thought.
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Well, THERE'S your problem! The #1 intake pushrod is off its rocker, and several of the others are s...
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229 hits | 108.95 KB | Posted: 6/21/20

I had noticed last year that someone put these cheap rubber bore plugs in, and I had already bought ...
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203 hits | 99.75 KB | Posted: 6/21/20

I put a little blue Hylomar on the new [url=https://...
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171 hits | 92.06 KB | Posted: 6/21/20

After a bath in the solvent tank, I dried & sandblasted the head before painting its exterior surfac...
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200 hits | 44.89 KB | Posted: 6/21/20

I'd never have guessed 4 combustion chambers were cracked through the exhaust valve seats from the w...
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The old t'stat seems to have been working, so I'm reusing it. It's not difficult or expensive to swa...
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161 hits | 60.32 KB | Posted: 6/24/20

The original lower radiator hose was made on 12/21/94 and is still serviceable. It had swollen by ab...
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137 hits | 84.56 KB | Posted: 8/11/20

These were solvent-washed, sandblasted, & painted Aluminum Cast Coat. The paint will be removed wher...
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OE 1995 4.9L TPS made by CTS. The date code is 5A09A, which I read as 1995 January 9th, 1st shift. L...
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194 hits | 59.95 KB | Posted: 8/11/20

This seems to be common to the high-mileage 4.9Ls I've owned & worked on.

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136 hits | 77.45 KB | Posted: 8/11/20

The valve cover got solvent-washed, sandblasted, & painted. The injector rail got steel-wooled and c...
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After checking a few local junkyards for a rebuildable head, and not finding any, I decided to just ...
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154 hits | 75.77 KB | Posted: 9/14/20

I found a NOS Ford head gasket, which is made by Fel-Pro.
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146 hits | 56.16 KB | Posted: 9/14/20

After washing it with brake cleaner, and torch-drying it, I painted the head with DupliColor Engine ...
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172 hits | 59.26 KB | Posted: 9/18/20

4.9L Cylinder Head Bolt Tightening Sequence
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164 hits | 83.25 KB | Posted: 9/18/20

After oiling the bolt threads & heads, I ran them in with my small electric impact, in-sequence. The...
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470 hits | 106.4 KB | Posted: 9/10/21

This modern graphite combination gasket is the only ...
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188 hits | 72.63 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

After washing & sandblasting, I had a machinist weld the tab back onto the intake, then plane it & t...
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The exhaust manifolds were also sandblasted, painted (with ultra-high-temperature paint), & planed. ...
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All the parts that were off (including new ones) were cleaned & painted before installation. The fue...
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460 hits | 109.45 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

I should have bought a commercial lift bar years ago, but this conglomeration of scrap metal, parts,...
PanDrop.jpg
211 hits | 92.89 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

With the engine & transmission lifted a few inches, the 4.9L's pan can barely come out (assuming the...
Gasket.jpg
225 hits | 83.05 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

This replacement oil pan gasket was in bad shape, not installed well (possibly re-used), leaking, an...
OilPumpTest.jpg
246 hits | 85.9 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

My worry was that the oil pump was shot, but it had some resistance when installed, and had good flo...
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499 hits | 103.91 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

After checking the block passages with shop air, the only thing left to restrict oil flow was the fi...
OilPan.jpg
393 hits | 79.78 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

I was surprised at how much sediment was in the pan, but I guess that shows 1) how well MarvelMyster...
Done.jpg
909 hits | 111.88 KB | Posted: 10/5/20

It's running rough (probably because of the old gas, and some sludge still in the lifters), but it s...
WaterPumpImpeller.jpg
362 hits | 47.72 KB | Posted: 12/31/20

I had noticed some grinding when I first started the engine, but it went away too quickly to identif...

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