Help Ease my worries
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From: St. Peter
Help Ease my worries
I dont know why, but after getting my rebuilt 302 to run, i just feel nervous driving the truck places. Like tonight for instance, i got it all the way to my girlfriends house, and it ran perfectly, when i got there, it was smoking under the hood (due to the seal breaking on the tranny dipstick and transmission getting on the header). I know thats all it is, and its been doing it for a while, but I just feel like i'm going to be driving it and its going to explode or somthing. Or i'll be idling at a stoplight, and its just going to die and leave me stranded.
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I had a similar feeling when I did my first brake job on my vehicle--that at any moment I was going to lose them and crash into a tree. Now I just worry when I do a brake job on someone else's (heh).....
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I was the same way when I rebuilt/BUILT! the 302 in my thunderbird. It was the first engine I ever completely tore apart. Every 10 minutes I was turning the radio off because "I swore I heard a tick or something". The longer you drive it, the more you'll relax. Unless, of course, you really screwed something up. Ha Ha, just kiddin' ya. I have just about 10,000 miles on my 302 now and it's running great. I was paranoid as hell for the first 5k or 6k. Keep driving it and watch those guages!
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Yeah, I'm starting to get less worried. One thing that does worry me is an oil leak between the tranny and the block, I'm assuming the rear main seal. How hard is that to replace with the engine in the vehicle?
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If it's a one-piece seal, you need to pull the tranny and flexplate. You go in from the back and it can be replaced pretty easily. If it's an older engine with a two-piece seal, you have to drop the pan but you can buy a little tool kit from most auto parts stores that lets you replace the seal by removing the rear main cap and screwing a special hook into the upper half of the seal from the end, and fish it out. With that type, you don't have to drop the tranny.
