Day 8 - And they're back!

Heads are back from the machine shop - now it's time for the reverse tear-down....

I replaced the oil separator (highly recc'd by local shop) - new rear main seal, rebuilt oil pump and replaced the water pump.

Learned a good lesson about reading carefully - don't try to torque bolts to 80 ft/lbs that are spec'd at 8 ft/lbs.... this has a tendency to cause a loud snap and the head of the bolt to fall off the front of your water pump.

This was a stressing time as I figured I was going to get to take the whole block in to get the darn thing removed - ALAS, both said "snapped" bolts did so with enough room to grab them sticking out of the block (For clarification, the second "snapped" bolt actually broke when removing the obviously over-torqued bolts!)

WHEW and that deserves a hallelujah! LOL

Still a couple of small projects:
1) replace water pump bolts - these are the ones I over torqued
2) clean up mating faces and install heads
3) NEED valve shims - as a small reminder to myself, two of the exhaust valves were out in
excess of 20%... so have to replace those while I'm in there.
4) Put the engine back in the car - this should be minor (ONLY kidding)

I'll post some more pics later tonight.... and the ticker!