Contemplating some major work
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Contemplating some major work
Fellas,
To purchase a new seal kit for the engine runs me about 147 bucks. That is all the seals and gaskets from felpro(i believe). I am going to be doing my oil pan seal soon and with my new cherry picker i am contemplating pulling the whole engine and doing everything from head gaskets to everything else. With the cherry picker, how long would it take to pull, just the removal. I am wondering if i had a weekend if i could pull it all off! I dont like to have it down for long. Thoughts? I just dont want to take it to ford and have them say well mr wreckin, looks like this needs a new seal and this is **** and and and and and!! I can do it all in one swoop. Those head bolts, what kind of socket can remove them? 12 pt? any other special tools??
To purchase a new seal kit for the engine runs me about 147 bucks. That is all the seals and gaskets from felpro(i believe). I am going to be doing my oil pan seal soon and with my new cherry picker i am contemplating pulling the whole engine and doing everything from head gaskets to everything else. With the cherry picker, how long would it take to pull, just the removal. I am wondering if i had a weekend if i could pull it all off! I dont like to have it down for long. Thoughts? I just dont want to take it to ford and have them say well mr wreckin, looks like this needs a new seal and this is **** and and and and and!! I can do it all in one swoop. Those head bolts, what kind of socket can remove them? 12 pt? any other special tools??
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From: Faibanks Ak.
Torque wrench and you will have to retime it. If you are going to do this you should do the oil cooler too. You have allready had the rear main done so you shouldn't have to mess with the clutch.
If this is your first time you will have a looooong weekend gettin her done. lol
If this is your first time you will have a looooong weekend gettin her done. lol
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as far as the timing, i can get it to static pretty good. Then i would take it to the diesel specialist here in town. They do pretty damn good work for cheap! how about the head bolts, they have a different bolt head than anything esle on the truck
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We pulled mine replaced the heads and put in studs then had it back in truck in 13 hours back in november. But I have been pulling and swapping engines all my life as many on here have. I do know that if I had to do it again I would pull the grille and rad support as that thing is heavy and it has to go up pretty high to clear everything. It made for a real tippsy move on the cherry picker moving it back and forth.
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well, i removed the old engine out of the back of the truck and with the way my drive way works i had to go over the bed of the truck to the side. My cherry picker rolls really smooth even with a 900 pound engine. It is precarious to get it moving though, makes you feel like it will tip over but then it slowly and smoothly rolls away. No big crash, no big crash, those are bad jujus!!
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voodoo juju!! haha it is a jinx or similar. Not a word probably! hahaha With all i have done so far and my experience, do you think i can do it in a weekend? Can i use my impact wrench on those head bolts?? Also with that, should i install head studs even though i dont plan to turbo? Should i expect to reuse the old ones or get new?
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From: Faibanks Ak.
It is not advisable to use an impact and definatly not going back together.
You have bolts instead of studs, you should be able to reuse them.
You can probably do it in a weekend, you may have to burn some midnight oil. lol
It will be a lot easier if you have some help when it comes time to set it back in and stab the tranny.
You have bolts instead of studs, you should be able to reuse them.
You can probably do it in a weekend, you may have to burn some midnight oil. lol
It will be a lot easier if you have some help when it comes time to set it back in and stab the tranny.
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