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Those bolts are a pain! I found them at an independent auto parts place. They're a weird pitch, like 1.25 or something. 1.0 and 1.5 I remember weree easy to find. I forget the diameter, too, maybe 10mm?

Steve

Its because we live in USA, anywhere else and metric threads are common.

Yeah, they are 10mmx1.25 pitch, Lowe's didn't carry them at all...and the local parts place only had them 2" long which didn't clear the stands mounts. I picked up some 6" ones today from the techs at Mastro! Should be on the stand tonight!

More pics from last nights activities!


Drivers side head is off...I think the previous owner used just water in the cooling system!:huh:


A little carbon build up on the pistons...


See it is a new water pump! Looks like the oil pump has been serviced...cam seals are new too!


cover off...rear main looks good, little bit of seepage from those two plates.

If my camera was better you could see that the cross-hatching from the factory milling is still visable! Awesome!


Same thing on this side!


Anyone need some EJ22T Heads? Complete!


Parts organization at it's finest!

I wonder if you could extrude hone the water passages or something to clear that out. Looks like rust.

Steve

Are the coolant passages lines with steel or something? Aluminum doesn't rust that way.

There are steel bolt heads and such in the passages. You can see a couple in the holes if you remove the upper water jacket. There are also the two caps at the bottom of the block for additional coolant draining.

Steve

...and many of the coolant "pipes" going around the motor are steel...and they are very corroded inside. I'm pretty sure the orange in the block & heads is just stains that occured from them corroding. The water that came out of the engine was orange too! You would think when the previous owner replaced the water pump....that they would actually put coolant in it!

Hot tank the block and that should clean things up.