Some people think that being a moderator means you have to do everything in moderation. Where's the fun in that?

 

Why would I hang myself because of your childish & immature workmanship? It's your truck, do as you wish....

Those front & rear intake manifold gaskets are a place I use RTV. Throw away the cork or rubber ones, make some seams of RTV (I used the black kind that's supposedly more resistant to gasoline & oil) on the block, let it set for a bit, then gently lower the manifold on (much easier when it's aluminum, use an engine crane if installing the cast iron factory piece).

 

Oh come on, you know you are having an anxiety attack just looking at that empty tube.

 

Jason, not James. LOL.

 

OOOPS! Fixed it. Sorry.

 

Now he comes out of the closet. I knew you were a closet RTV guy Chris.

 

Heh...

I also use it on the Tempo water pump's connection to a solid pipe... the pipe has a rubber O-ring on it and is inserted into the pump body, retained in a manner I forget at the moment.

The guy who "rebuilt" my engine before I got it used RTV on the head gaskets.... whoo hooo! Now, that's class!

 

Wow! I cant believe it sealed the heads.

 

It got squished into the coolant ports. There's only one RTV stub in that picture, but all those little holes in the head gaskets where coolant flows were stopped up with RTV when I took the head off.

*sigh* Mark of a sheer genius...


I wanna say there were handfuls of RTV chunks in the bottom of the oil pan but that would be an exaggeration... say, maybe ¼ cup of that stuff. The guy who put that thing together really loved that stuff, I guess.

I grew up using Permatex Form-a-Gasket No 2 (the non-hardening stuff) it's what my father and his friends taught me to use. I later was introduced to another Permatex product, something called Hi Tack, that stuff works pretty well, too, but is hard to clean up after.

 

I like the anaerobic sealant. It never gets hard and will get washed away with any solvent or hot fluid where it is not needed, but it seals great where it is needed.

 

Maybe that's what the Mr Gasket instructions called for and you didn't read them!

 

You may have heard of Rick Steves & Europe Through The Back Door. Well, now we have our own celebrity - Bruno2 & RTV Through The Back Door:

 

Well the leaky head thread turned into the leaky oil pan thread also. Looked as though the oil pan gasket was leaking out of the back rope seal. Since we had the motor taken apart to that stage I decided I needed to pick up the motor and drop the pan to replace what was there with one of fel pros one piece pan gasket(also I forgot to put the gasket niblets on the front of the oil pan before I replaced the front cover). The new gasket came with some plastic studs that thread into the corner bolt holes of the block and allowed the gasket and oil pan to be snapped into place and let us install the bolts.

So we had the Bronco on the lift and had the cherry picker hooked to the motor in order to raise it to get the clearance necessary to remove the pan. Somehow we got everything out of kilter and the Bronco was stuck in a position where we couldn't get everything to come down properly. It took a minute and some creative thinking , but we decided to drop the lift and the cherry picker simultaneously in order to beat the bind. So we did and it was successful! We freed the Bronco from its chains of slavery.

So now the motor is going back together. I got the balancer and pulley on and the oil is changed with a new filter. I believe the intake manifold took its final torque. The thermostat and a couple of the hoses are back on now. Maybe tomorrow I will get the accessories back on with the belts and the exhaust. I believe the project is moving forward well. It will be real close tomorrow if I can find the time to get to work on it.

 

You forgot the minor difficulty where the studs of the engine mounts wouldn't go back in the slots in the perches. For whatever reason the engine was too far back and it took quite a bit of persuasion to get things back where they were supposed to be. But, they finally did go in.

Tomorrow we'll:

• Put #1 on TDC on the compression stroke
• Install the distributor with our marks lined up & the rotor pointing to #1's terminal
• Stick in the plugs
• Install the headers and connect them with the exhaust
• Add a valve cover or two
• Bolt the 1406 on and connect the fuel line and linkage
• Pull out the pictures, figure out how the accessories go on, and bolt them there
• Connect a few coolant hoses
• Add a bit of coolant
• Install the coil and connect up the wiring
• Turn the key and see what happens

But, that list probably doesn't include everything, and some of those things may be a little slower to do than to type, so we may not turn the key tomorrow. Although surely we can on Monday.

 

What plugs?