What are cooler hoses actually called? Ridiculously dumb here

[BradMph]

You are definitely a silly girl, lmao Luv that new avatar.
Looks like you have work ahead of you with that muck you found in that oil. When you do a head gasket, be sure to re-torque the head about 500 miles later. That way the damn thing doesn't do it again. Oh heck that reminds me I have to do mine too!!!

Did you look for hair line cracks in the head? Not trying to depress you, but our engines are notorious for doing this stuff. checking between valves and MCA jet valves is the common spots.


$1200 for a head gasket? lmao They are taking advantage of the female voice on the phone, JERKS. I will fly over to you and replace the clutch and fly back home for $500.

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You are definitely a silly girl, lmao Luv that new avatar.
Looks like you have work ahead of you with that muck you found in that oil. When you do a head gasket, be sure to re-torque the head about 500 miles later. That way the damn thing doesn't do it again. Oh heck that reminds me I have to do mine too!!!

Did you look for hair line cracks in the head? Not trying to depress you, but our engines are notorious for doing this stuff. checking between valves and MCA jet valves is the common spots.


$1200 for a head gasket? lmao They are taking advantage of the female voice on the phone, JERKS. I will fly over to you and replace the clutch and fly back home for $500.

Hey thanks Avatar was fastest yeah. okay so... you found me out, I have a female voice and get taken advantage of, rofl. So so frustrating. Yeah so anyways the muck thank thank thankfully is not all over the engine innerds, I am SO thankful for that I can't even explain, yeah. Just the inside of the valve cover and the cap so far ... though I haven't drained the oil yet not knowing how long the head gasket process will take me. Didn't want the workings all exposed any more than absolutely necessary. And now figuring I'll have to do an oil change like every 100 miles for a few weeks just in case. j/k but will keep a super close eye on it.

The head is still on the rest of the engine because I got stuck on the 'last' step. I took out the camshaft bolt at the end, and off that drive bolt thing that attaches to the front of the cam sprocket at the very front in front of the sprocket but I'm not sure how to take off the head while leaving the timing chain on the sprocket and the sprocket nice and stationary in place. I saw on 2 different videos where people used zip ties to lock the chain around the sprocket, so I did that, and I stuffed rags down around the timing chain but I can't figure out what's supposed to happen to separate the timing chain sprocket from the cam shaft where the gold & the black pieces meet.
Like at the moment that the cam shaft is pulled apart or up from the timing chain sprocket is the timing chain sprocket going to fall? Am I supposed to tilt it ever so gently forward off the cam shaft? Is the timing chain stiff enough to hold the sprocket upright while it's ziptied tightly around it & not get slack in the timing chain that makes the chain fall off the sprockets down in the crankshaft area? So many questions I don't understand yet how it's supposed to happen the right way.
I saw people suggest to suspend the sprocket from some point under the hood but how in the heck do you take off the head if the sprocket is attached to the hood rofl. Ugh, I can't find a video that shows the order to do the last step in! Darn youtubers only have 2 hands lol.

1:44 it's all zip tied up and 1:55 the head is off. WTF? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3HSy...ature=youtu.be

There's another video that shows the same darn thing. It's zip tied, and then the head is off. Only in that video the sprocket's not suspended from the hood. WHAT?! How on earth are these guys doing this... once again at 2:32 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFgNp7052MU

omg so... it's after midnight again and I'm reading and watching more and more to see the missing step somewhere. The book is zero help on this too.

Yes I will go over that head with a magnifying glass all over and under and in everywhere possible looking for cracks! I will spend at least a day and night cleaning it and inspecting it. I'm obsessive like that. Really don't like doing the same job twice! I already found evidence that somebody had pryed/pried off the valve cover gasket in the past. It's not "too" bad but it's obvious. So frustrating. And for goodness sakes that's not even hard at ALL to take off. So not sure what to expect with the mating surfaces of the bottom of the head/block. But I won't pry.

Thanks for listening oh and your quoted estimate of $500!!!