Looks clean! personally I'm into the "If it's metal, let it look metal" look, but I bet this will look sick!

 

Thanks. Usually I like the metal look, but only if it's polished, and I was kinda going for a little more aggressive, I don't know. Haha, we'll see how it looks once it's all put together, and I put a couple coats of clear on it and it looks way better than the flat.

 

love the farm tractor look, you should have used John Deere green. just kidding, looks good. I am way to lazy to paint mine while its going back together.

 

Should be putting on the first coat on the rest of the block tonight. Hopefully I remember to take some pics.

 

Anyone know where I can find the studs for the turbo to exhaust manifold? Any help would be super duper.

IPD Exhaust studs

These say exhaust manifold studs, would these be the same for the turbo/manifold????

Thaaaanks.

 

Well, unfortunately hit a snag tonight. As I was prepping the motor to paint the block I found a fault in the valve cover paint job. I was taping up the valve cover and some tape peeled back a little bit and some paint was on it, sure enough, when I stuck the tape to the top of the valve cover it took the paint right off with it. And yes, I was using painter's tape. I tried spot painting it, but that just caused the paint to bubble up along the edges.

The only thing I can really do is either take all the paint off myself, or go through the trouble of removing the valve cover to take in to get chemically sanded and PC. I am going to power my dad's dremel kit this week and use that to sand the valve cover and I am going to polish it. I still have a gloss intake manifold that I don't know if I want to leave gloss black or paint it with the silver paint that I originally bought for the block. Oh well, polished is even better than painted.

15 minutes worth of scraping and sanding. Oh well, live and learn, right?






At least putting away my new tools lifted my spirits.





Well, more after this weekend when I get down to sanding the valve cover and then hopefully polish.

 

Prepped my first Tethy for paint. 180 grit sandpaper to remove blemishes and what not, followed by a 600 grit to smooth it out. Then I'll put down a primer of some kind, wet sand with 1500 grit, base coat, wet sand with 1500 grit, clear coat. And those wheels are just as much fun to sand as they look, with all those spokes. I can't wait until I have to clean them.

 

Finished another one, this one was quite a bit more time consuming. The first wheel I did had the oem finish on it and was in really good shape, but this next one had been painted and the paint was really coarse and chipping pretty bad.



After a good sanding





Oh yeah, and when I was swapping door panels on my sedan, I took off the door inserts and the little sticker on the panels was 11/26/93...my 5th birthday. It's a sign.

 

Well, project has come to a standstill. Went down to my car this morning because I was going to drive to work so I could leave right from there to start taking apart my wagon. Get down to my car, move some things around so I can load up my tools, and guess what. They're gone. All of them. Stolen. And my receiver that I used to listen to music, and my other tool box, granted it was empty, but still. I'm livid.....LIVID. I officially dislike this city now, I no longer wish to live here. As far as I see it, this is added motivation to do well in school so I can go somewhere else for graduate school. Luckily they left my car parts and I'm covered under my parents' homeowners insurance.

UGHGHGHGHGHHHHGHGHHHH!!!!!!

 

Oh man, I am sorry to hear this. There is no worse thief than one that steals a mans tools.

 

Yeah, you have no idea how upset I am. Tonight I am taking my mini workshop apart. The shelving and all of the parts are going to go in my closet. I'll leave the little wooden workbench down there, but that's it.

 

Dude that SUX! Sorry to hear.... Will you file a claim for the insurance?

 

Oh yeah, I got a police report tonight, so once that gets filled out, I'll pick that up, and I'll be covered under my parent's homeowner's insurance since I'm a student. And I'm making a list of all the tools that I lost.....so far I'm up to $1080.

 

Ouch! Damn, you should have chained them down dude!

 

Yeah, just never occurred to me. He said the building was locked 24/7, he said there were cameras, etc etc. Pissed. Oh well, live and learn, there's nothing I can do about it now. All my expensive parts are coming to my apt. I brought up my black shelving and it's in my closet, and the parts are soon to follow.

 

Oh no! So sorry. I hate that feeling of being violated. Hold onto those pictures you have of the tools and tool box...insurance will want to see them.

 

Thanks, I'm making a pretty detailed list of what I had, plus a police report, they better give me my money so I can get some new tools. Kind of hard to work on a car without any tools. I had to remove a screw from the wall today with a scissors. You know how I felt? Not great. Not great.



But anyways, QUESTION. What gasket/seals do I need if I remove just the valve cover? As I said, my paint job failed and I don't know what it's going to take to get that paint off of there. And I'm parting my wagon, so I may just take the valve cover off of that, clean and polish it, and then swap it onto mine. I just want to make sure it's possible to take off JUST the valve cover with out going deeper than that. I'm looking at the diagram here:



Looks like I would needs some cam seals, is that it? Is the valve cover the chemical seal? Any help would be much 'preciated.

 

Sorry about your tools.

Before you paint aluminum it should always be primed with Zinc Chromate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_chromate



This is beacuse aluminum, unless the environmental conditions are tightly controlled, oxidizes faster than you can get the paint on it and any oxidation will make it very difficult for paint to adhere. The zinc chromate will etch the aluminum oxide and adhere to the aluminum.

Hope this helps.

 

Yeah, I'm not going to paint it anymore, I'm not going to deal with that. Haha. But hey, I figure you would know just as good as anyone else. What gaskets/seals do I need for the valve cover swap?

 

Front 2 of (3) and rear 2 of (4) Cam seals.
spark plug o-rings 5 of (5)
the sealing compound and roller( I bought the rollers at Home depot, the small ones with red(all chemical) rollers)

That's about all I can think of.

Be careful pulling it off. When I did mine the cam seals got stuck in the upper head on one end and the lower head on the other end. when I lifted the cams twisted and I broke the thrust collar in the top head.

Don't forget you need the cam locking tool to re-assemble. If you want info on how I made mine just let me know.