pete25r's bugeye progress by pete25r

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1-9-2015

So what do you guys think about my oil leakage? Head gasket replacement time?

IAG quoted me a ballpark of 2500, which is doable and worth it. I would do it myself but it looks like a painful job. IAG also does the timing belt when doing head gaskets. I did mine at just over 75k because I heard whining noise coming from that area. The noise was my AC tensioner dying but I feel better being safer than sorriest.

1-14-2015

Look what showed up today. To the "install me" pile!

Looks like fun. Hopefully I can get it done this weekend. Doesn't look like that difficult of a job. The torque on the bolts that hold the valve covers on is like 4"lbs or something silly.

1-18-2015

Got them gaskets on. It was a pain because of how tight it is down there.

I had to use a wrench on some of the bottom/back bolts, then contort my arm and hands so I could spin the bolt. Getting them out and then back in wasn't too bad. Just had to be real careful with the gasket goo.

Took me about 4 hours a side. I'm slow and I cleaned as I went. Did it over two days.

Hopefully it'll stop the leakage. Been through a few heat cycles and no noticed seepage yet.

1-25-2015

Well yesterday I was able to get under my hood and pull off some hardware so I could have a looksy at my leakage. Well it appears not only leaving the valve cover's breather hose disconnect for a short run not only let it run funky (air leak) but also it dripped some oil down to the front sparkplug's recessed area. There were no signs of leaks, no oil-slug trails, no oil oozing from the spark plug opening. 

UPS man is holding my uppipe for ransom. He hasn't send me a list of demands yet though.

Also been tinkering with my tune. I so forgot were I was on my tune. I need to takes notes as I go. 

I need to get some pictures up.

12-29-2015

been playing with tune. still having fun learning how to massage it. Also go a newer tuning laptop, went from netbook with 10" screen to 14" with a proper processor. Performance is good battery life sucks though. With the netbook and extended battery it said it had 7hrs of battery time. was more like 4hrs but hey... this laptop is like one. It was not expensive and is a bit of an upgrade.

need to get uppipe installed. got it wrapped and ready. just need to clean things up a bit under the hood...

need to redo my valve cover gaskets and/or the rubber grommets. something is leaking slowly. Maybe I didn't clean it good enough. arg...

5-5-2016

Still playing with tune. Been taking my sweet time. I'll tinker on it a little one weekend and leave it alone for a while. Making progress though.

I've still got an oil leak I think. I've replaced the valve cover gaskets, found a loose bolt on my TD04's oil drain pipe. I need to get my lazy butt out there and dig around the engine bay for other stuff I can tighten up.

After that is fixed I've got a new uppipe to put on and some diff bushings that I couldn't get in because I ran out of time.

Still haven't blown my share of the tax return. hmm...