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that's when he drew blood!!!

FINALLY!!! thought it would never happen, ha ha

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I can't tell you how many times I have drawn blood and not had a clue as to how it happened. Just working away and then all the sudden stuff starts turning red and your like, wtf?! Did I cut myself somehow? When? On what?

The flip side is there have been a great many times where I busted a knuckle or something and instantly thought, wonder how much blood is going to pour out of this one!

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true!

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I remember working on the exhaust under a G20 van years ago. I began wondering how and why the transmission was leaking down my shirtsleeve to my elbow when I wasn't under the darn thing.
The answer? It was me leaking red stuff from a pretty nasty gash in my arm that didn't bleed immediately when I bashed it on something sharp :eek:. It wasn't Dexron II.

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Day Three of Engine Removal

picked up this Two Ton Load Leveler from Harbor Freight (aka the Cheap Chinese Tool Store) for about $45 bones, its a step above their 3/4 ton yellow one, fingered I am pulling the engine with the boat anchor SM465 Muncie, might as well get this one

man, the Harbor Freightians sure have a sense of humor, they give you the [single use] plastic red handle with a grade 3 bolt for this TWO TON jack, LOL, needless to say we mucked up the threads on that piece of junk on first use, other than the handle, the leveler held up, and no one Got Dead!

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after disconnecting the drive shaft and the transmission from the cross member, we put the engine hoist and the new leveler to good use

we left the starter on and the oil filter, and maybe if we was to do it again we would have removed these two aparatie to prevent them from catching on the engine mounts

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and we have Lift Off

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down boy, good boy!

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and this Divorce is Final

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always wanted to git an engine up on this type of engine stand like they do on all them TV shows and tear it down

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then it was time to commence with The Tear Down ceremonies

first the valve covers and the intake manifold came off, this revealed a decent leak proof set of beads on the Great Wall of China, both in the front and the rear of the block, nice

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Off with his head!

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the lifter extraction proved to be a challenge - had to resort to vice grips and liberal use of PB Blaster to [ahem] persuade them out - fortunately we is replacing them with brand new ones

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the crank pulley came off next, which allowed us to pull off the harmonic balancer

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the timing cover was do to come off next, in hind sight, might be more better to remove the oil pan first as the bottom of the timing set cover has a lip that protrudes and overlaps the oil pan, oh well

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that revealed the timing set, and the chain which had way too much stretchability

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then I pulled out the camshaft, make sure you remove the fuel pump rod to allow it to slide out

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pulled the crank gear next

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removed the water/coolant plugs out of the block on each side, and nothing came out, had to poke in there with a small flat screw driver to get a decent waterfall

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I know you mentioned you were doing a top end job, Do you plan to tear it down further?

May need cam bearings and I would look at the crank bearings.

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someone has done a timing chain change on that motor. gm used nylon coated upper gears for many years which ended up cracking.

my original chain was way more stretched than yours.

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Fun! Only a level 9?! Lol that's a good feeling!

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No, I already went further than planned by removing the bell housing, clutch, and fly wheel

I am just going to pretend all that is just good, ha ha

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I believe this is all original, the cam gear is very light I thought it was aluminum, but my buddy said its that nylon stuff, it's just really dirty that's all, maybe if I was to clean it up we could confirm for sure

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I am planning pretty much the same job as you are doing. Mine needs a cam. It has a bad lobe. It is also one of those "no rev" RV cams. I hate those cams. So we have at the ready, a decent Crane cam (fairly tame), gear drive, a set of Edelbrock aluminum heads, Harland Sharp roller rockers, New Edelbrock intake, NOS Holley 780cfm, NOS Vintage cal custom valve covers and a host of other support parts to go with it. I want my Rat to scream :lol: I would have done this in July or August but my back has been out since June. Just this month it has finally felt better enough to start projects on my truck again.

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From the photo it looks like a nylon gear. I am amazed it has made it this far ;)

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I had the opposite experience once, long time ago. Changing trans fluid and filter and old roommate wandered onto the driveway (not car savvy). Half of my upper body was red with Dexron. I rolled out from under the truck and said Hey man, could you give me a hand? Sent him into a panic.

Greg, you've covered many pages since I checked in. Nice work! I really like the methodical approach, operating tables, organ bins and all.

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the general consensus among my self proclaimed "car expert" buddies is that this truck may have indeed only had 35,000 miles on it and not 135K or even 235K since it was a straight up farm truck, either way it don't matter now

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thanks, I love that summary!

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somehow I decided to press on

got the passenger side motor mount off, had to excavate the bolt heads to even be able to get the socket on them, they had that much farm crust on them

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on to the other side, the driver motor mount

observation, the passenger side has the nut welded on to it, the driver side do not

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spuned her upside down for a looksie

pics sorta blurry, apologies

man I can't wait to get that fugly orange off of her

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these are the numbers off the stock cam 2944 and GM12 and K80 (not sure about the last one)

I can't find any info for that type of cam anywheres except some dude claiming it was a performance cam on eBay that he sold of $18 bucks, LOL

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Haven't kept up with the forum in a while but junk the stock cam for a slightly More modern version.
What's your plan for the motor?
If you stay flat tappet, on a budget go with a summit tight lobe seperation cam, they are the older but more modern than your stock cam.
JMO,
Brent

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Comp Cams 12-235-2 or 12-231-2.

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Your ability to cope without frustration will get better as you get older and the challenges get harder.

When you get a call at 2am to bail them out of jail, when they move home for a few months in their 20's or 30's, when they go through a divorce and your Grandchild is in the middle, or anytime they do something unwise that you end up fixing - you'll remember fondly the days when running a taxi service was the only requirement. :lol:

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Many times over the past 35 years. At one point I sold all my projects from high school, college, and first 10 years of work time frame since I simply was never going to get to them.
But, my kids and wife know that I will ALWAYS be there to support them (note: not DO for them, support them as THEY do). As I watch them fly, it was worth 20 years of fitting my hobby in the little spots between. Frustrating, yes, I've been working on a simple tractor redo for almost 20 years, as other things rise up above it in priority. But prioritizing family before all else was part of saying 'I Do' and all that has followed. Trucks will always be important but "all true wealth is biological".