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rhipsher · 11-01-2009

It really pizzes me off and it's my fault that I forgot to block the coolant off from entering the plenum. It fills up the first two bores on the left and right side up to the top with engine coolant when I cracked the plenum open. What a freaken mess. Luckily I made an extension that connects to the shop vac and reduces down to a 5/16 clear flexible hose that reaches all the way to the top of the valve and suck everything out dry in 2 seconds. Anyway the new starter works great. But I can see that I'm going to have to reseal the valve covers. I'm noticing a slight oil leak from both the drivers side and passenger side toward the back. Every time I fire it up after several days of not driving it it burns oil off for the first 5 minutes then its fine. The only place I didn't spread loctite 518 was on the rubber end plugs. I spread it right up to the corners of them and overlapped a bit but apparently that wasn't enough. So I've got to do it again. But this time I'm going to just jack the engine up to get the valve cover bolts out of the drivers side. There's no way I'm taking that break booster out again. The hell with that.

11-01-2009	#1
rhipsher Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Houston 90 Red ZR-1 Posts: 2,320	Got the new starter inst but It really pizzes me off and it's my fault that I forgot to block the coolant off from entering the plenum. It fills up the first two bores on the left and right side up to the top with engine coolant when I cracked the plenum open. What a freaken mess. Luckily I made an extension that connects to the shop vac and reduces down to a 5/16 clear flexible hose that reaches all the way to the top of the valve and suck everything out dry in 2 seconds. Anyway the new starter works great. But I can see that I'm going to have to reseal the valve covers. I'm noticing a slight oil leak from both the drivers side and passenger side toward the back. Every time I fire it up after several days of not driving it it burns oil off for the first 5 minutes then its fine. The only place I didn't spread loctite 518 was on the rubber end plugs. I spread it right up to the corners of them and overlapped a bit but apparently that wasn't enough. So I've got to do it again. But this time I'm going to just jack the engine up to get the valve cover bolts out of the drivers side. There's no way I'm taking that break booster out again. The hell with that. Last edited by rhipsher; 11-01-2009 at 02:41 AM.