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Or you can be 130 lbs of AWESOME like me! lol jk. I get crap for being the smallest guy at the shop, mostly with everyone talking about the burger king commercial lol.
But yea, these camaros are WAY harder to work on then people think. Because the engine is so far down and in, you have to bend more and it just sucks.
yup, so far, my 4th gen has been the hardest car i have ever worked on.
i had the intake manifold replaced on my friends mustang in under 2 hours, never working on a ford before, and going slow, i doubt that would be the case for a 4th gen
I feel you big man pain with working on this car. my arms are just starting to heal from all the scratches, and I get to start putting her back together this weekend.
Ok I finally got the intake manifold off, now I need to get the front engine bracket by the oil dipstick. I can't seem to find the nuts to take it off. I need to take the bracket off to get to the right valve cover right?
Im so close to the head gaskets I can smell the milkshake! lol
Ok I finally got the intake manifold off, now I need to get the front engine bracket by the oil dipstick. I can't seem to find the nuts to take it off. I need to take the bracket off to get to the right valve cover right?
Im so close to the head gaskets I can smell the milkshake! lol
Im almost positive you will need to take that off. There are 2 bolts going into the front of the head behind the power steering reservoir and the egr. The other goes into the front of the ICM.
Im almost positive you will need to take that off. There are 2 bolts going into the front of the head behind the power steering reservoir and the egr. The other goes into the front of the ICM.
ok thank you. I will attempt to get that off next and give you guys an update on it.
that rear one is a pain in the butt!!! i used a short wrench on it and a lot of prying with random boards. the front one shouldent be all to hard though.
for the one in front, don't forget to undo the lower EGR connection on the block. It just makes it easier to get off, found out the hard way. for the back lift bracket, I found that I had to use socketing wrenchs from the bottom side of the car to get to the lower bolt, had issues getting my arms back to try from the top. for the top bolt, I was not able to get it off until I removed the lower intake, then I found that I had more room to work and see things. to second taylor.o1, once I got the wrench on the lower bolt I used a piece of wood to push against the wrench until it broke free, and the top back bolt, got the wrench on and used a little hammering action on the wrench to break it free. just not fun
Word of advice, on hard to maneuver to fasteners: dead blow + wrench = much less chance of rounding nuts and bolts but with a mild impact effect.
on easy to reach but stuck fasteners: Metal hammer.
Or you can use a metal hammer on all if your confident in your tools. But basically, the impacts, even though they don't move right away, frees up rust and buildups under and around the threads.
Also, if you DRIVE onto a bolt, as in, smack it really hard on the top like you were trying to send it through the metal, will send a stretching shockwave through it and free it up like an impact.
Just throwing some advice out there! :)
Also, heat is your friend if you've got a torch. Especially on drivelines and lock-tite'ed fasteners.
Cheers!
ok just a little update. Got the lower intake manifold off and I bent the passenger side bracket to get the last valve cover nut off. There is a bracket on the driver side( I guess it is holding the fuel rail or something) and that is giving me a pain now. Almost there! Too bad I won't really know how to put everything back lol. I did set everything up in baggies for a little organization.
Ok got the left head out and we took off all the spark plugs and no water in them
:( since the intake gasket was damaged we are now thinking it was that gasket that led water to mix with the oil. Sigh if we only got the spark plug boots off in the first place we could've done a compression test.
So my truck is finally getting some work done, after 17 years, Oil pressure sensor went out and it’s located under the lower intake manifold. Have to...
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