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take a look into dry ice blasting works really well if you can get or build the gun doo hicky i can get all the dry ice "rice" you want nice thing is its safe for electronics and soft metals and there is no mess to clean up it just evaporates after a while

hey i never got a chance to let slip what it was but at least i think iwas the first to know well second

nice trick but since i do fuel injection... but it may come in handy on someone elses car my question is since you had the vacum ports tig'd close why did you not make a plate that just fits inside said water pocket and have it tig'd in there as well and then file down the welds till it was smooth... couple less gaskets

oh so you have the intercooler mounted on the motor then ? well on a second suggestion get some inch or inch and a half 1/8 inch wall tubing bent up to wrap around the front and back side of your intercooler and weld it onto plates bolted to your towers not as strong as going straight strut to strut but i don't think you would notice the differance ..

well after about 250 miles or so on a last trip to seattle at 3500-4500 rpm most of the way no problems so i guess its a good mount

i know on my turbo wagon everytime the lifters clattered <it was intermittant at teh time> i lost alot of power cause the valves did not open fully

so remove the intercooler and build a combination strut brace / intercooler mount thats what i plan on doing i was curious how much a a noticeable difference a brace added hmm

hmm shame i did not read the board before i left for seattle this morning lol oh well if it happens to fall off at some point i will come get it if not not a big deal i think i found a diffrent approach to my problem... i'll have a huge back window but it should work fine

not only would it sound bad but i suspect the sudden stopping of the engien might also be a dead give away of no oil pressure now you may have crappy oil pump seals casuing the lifter clatter had it on mine same mileage well i got 17k over yours replaed the seals no more lifter noise

on a hunch wire for wire small wire on plug to small wire on suby alt big wire on plug to big wire on suby plug and regular alt charge line gonna change that over to a bigger direct line to the battery

i am serious about cutting that roof off i need sheet metal hell i'll go do it

it was off a old oldsmobile sorry i should have elaborated a bit more i am using the lower half of a stock sube alternator mount i built/welded the shiny custom upper arms so it basically adjusts just like the stock alternator would i used a 3-4 inch section of 1/8" l-bracket metal as the base and the 2 upper arms and cross brace to the intake are made of 1/4 " x 2" flat stock i think yeah i got a few more pics just no where to put em oh i also got rid of the air conditioner junk and am only running one belt for the power steering and water pump and alternator i need to put the small tensioner puley back on for the a/c and get a shorter belt it doesn't seem to need it but.. it would make me feel better

well i went and done it i robbed a old 70 amp gm alternator from a car in my grandma's field made up a slightly over kill mount for it and well i got juice!!! witht he heater on and the lights nothing dims even when i am at a idle yay best of all unlike the sube alt this one works!

hey scoob since i have done it a few times and i will be up in seattle tomorrow <friday> i can give you hand if your still stuck

actually we can!!! there was not a left over 5 speed awd tranny was there? prolly not but never hurts to ask

get a quote on a head gasket job... from many shops and express your concerns about the issue and the prices.. maybe they will reduce the price a bit? just a idea then have one of the other gearheads on here do the head gaskets on the cheap for like beer and twinkies or something

you people and your dam saturday stuff!!!!!! you suck!!! lol what happened to good old fridays ?? when some of us are off work ?? anyways good luck and have fun don't kill anything you or the car ps- twisties rule too bad my turbo wagon has bad struts and rolls like a water bed in the corners... wait till i get my other car re-welded up hehe

oh fastness??? well thats a new saying hmm kinda neat leave it to kids

time out before you go impacting stuff i would bet your problem is you lost the little tiny almost a hair bigger than 1/8 inch pin that fits in a hole in the crank pulley and also fits in a small hole on the outer timing belt sprocket with out that pin it will allow the crank pulley to slip and then stuff loosens up yadda yadda i lost mine but noticed it before i put back on got a pice of steel rod close to the right size and cut it off and it seems to work fine oh and to tighten the nut i used a torque wrench and stuck a big screw driver in the inspection hole to wedged the fly wheel teeth i have done it often and have had no tooth damage yet

i spose i could give the link again but since this is his thread i'll let him do it nice job on the camo

hey cut the roof in one nice big flat section i will weld it onto my project to finish the back half of the cab

ok since i live in longview i must ask wtf where you doing in this boring place??? and i assume this happened on highway 30? i drive it every night to ge to work and well yeha i suspect the front diff it toasted as well if it does have diff lock and nifty stuff.. and if your really in a jam you could pull apart the tranny case remove the differential plug up the output holes<to keep crap from getting in> and run it with the center diff locked, has anyone thought it may actually be the center diff?? thats fubar? <note i have not read all of the messages>

i myself am not above crossbreeding powertrains its mostly a money thing if i have it and can adapt it great if i can't afford it i dream about it personally if i ever lift this thing i am building i was thinking of a adapted 700-r4<built up a little first> and this np 208 part time transfer case i have and either a solid axle front or swapping in my amc eagle sx/4 ifs front end or even a toyota ifs so i had manual locking hubs retaining the stock rear ifs but dropping it down a tad of if i got really insane a set of 1.5 or 2 ton rockwell military axles front and rear with multilink suspension i dunno if that would be a good setup for nightly drives to work might tend to eat gas a little unless i went to a ej20t or something it would still retain a turbo suby heart though its too easy to swap in another motor

sucky thing is i think i may in seattle on friday lol hows that for sheer luck oh well

i wonder if this saab maf i have would work.. hmmm