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Engine Stuff ('02 4.0 SOHC)
New parts, cleaning pistons, valve lapping, gasket surface prep
Next project up
Finished!
The completed engine bay
The coil numbering (after wiping off the dust and crud)
Intake on, looking more like an engine
Starting to come back together now
Engine in place, mated to the tranny and bolted down to the mounts
There was a snowstorm approaching and I didn't really want to be doing open engine bay work with a foot of snow predicted. The driveway is a slight...
Engine nearly complete, ready to be dropped in the truck
Heads installed
All the roller followers in place
Using the special tool to compress the valve springs while putting roller followers in
Roller followers ready to be reinstalled in their original locations
Heads on
New head bolts (cause they're torque-to-yield)
New jackshaft chain, guide, and tensioner in place
The new jackshaft chain tensioner vs. the old. The new one's quite a bit beefier in the guide itself, the leaf springs, and the bracket
New fron and rear 'cassettes' in
Plastic bagged this time around to prevent any more surface rusting
Lookin damn good. All oiled up and ready for action. Next thing up is to put the timing gear in
After a few hours more I got all the pistons back in the right way
So like the idiot I am I was looking at the block wrong. I put piston #1 in cylinder #6 and facing the wrong way, #2 in #5 etc. So I put all the...
So let me re-iterate: I am an idiot. I was moving the harmonic balancer (damn heavy btw) with oily fingers and it slipped out of my grip and landed...
So while I was waiting for the correct piston rings to come in (damn eBay seller sent the wrong ones) my block developed a bit of surface rust....
Honed the cylinders with one of those ball-type hones. Left a pretty good surface finish if you ask me but scratched up the head gasket surface a...
 
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