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Even if I wasn’t sick, I would be sick when I was cleaning up puke. Can’t deal with puke. Hate puke so much that I haven’t puked in years!!!!
Oh yeah... anyone can release the springs without a compressor. Lol
Turns out that my victim was factory equipped with the big front sway bar... the stock bushings aren't bad so I will re-use those until I have another +$100 order from the summits...
Recap of yesterday's "make my MPG great again" thrash. (Dailying the green one really hurts my wallet)
Took me three tries to get the passenger side spring in.
1st try went easy peasy. I was happy until I realized that the spring wasn't properly seated in the upper bucket in the frame.
2nd try got everything seated correctly, but my rented spring compressor was wedged tight and wouldn't come out. Like a DUMBASS, I decided to just stick a jack under the lower control arm, remove the knuckle and slowly lower the jack until the spring opened up enough to release the compressor. That part went fine, but while jacking the control arm back up to reinstall the knuckle, the control arm slipped off of the jack and the spring ejected itself. If you see the above pic of the control arm bushing, you'll see where the arm came down so fast and with so much force that it notched the crossmember and itself in one fell swoop. Luckily I wasn't in the line of fire, as the spring took flight and slammed into my steel car ramps against the wall. Wifey came running out screaming "are you ok? What happened?" I assured her that I was physically ok, but if I was to explain what happened, that I would have to kill her. She gave me the biggest stinkeye gaze I had ever seen from her, but she went back inside and left me alone.
3rd time was the charm, as they say...
More assembly later, I learned that the Energy Suspension kits come with 1" sway bar bushings for my truck, but my truck has the 1-1/8" sway bar... Fail.
Bottom side buttoned up, and I went back to engine reassembly. This was just hooking hoses up and routing wires back, installing engine accessories and all the other crap I pulled to get the intake gaskets/spider done. I changed the oil and fired it up to a massive misfire. Thinking that I crossed a spark plug wire somewhere, went and traced all those again. They were good, so mini freak out moment later and I was thinking that my spider install was wrong...
Called a mechanic buddy that was telling me how he had done several of these before, and he told me that it was likely just an injector that was slow to wake up, and that I should run it for a few minutes and see if it clears up.
Well it did, so back to happy for me...
Wheels on and torqued, fluids full, and underhood tool checked, time for a test drive.
If it wasn't for being so time consuming, every vehicle that I ever owned would be full poly bushed... This is my third one personally, and I have helped a few buddies do their's, and the control/road feel is just a night and day difference. Love it!
The motor mounts are transmitting a bit more vibration than I would have expected in this application, but I still like it...
I aborted trying to do the rear spring bushings at this time. With the holidays, I figured it would be better to get the truck back together to drive it, then in a few weeks after life calmed down I will pull it back in the garage and finish it...
Took me three tries to get the passenger side spring in.
1st try went easy peasy. I was happy until I realized that the spring wasn't properly seated in the upper bucket in the frame.
2nd try got everything seated correctly, but my rented spring compressor was wedged tight and wouldn't come out. Like a DUMBASS, I decided to just stick a jack under the lower control arm, remove the knuckle and slowly lower the jack until the spring opened up enough to release the compressor. That part went fine, but while jacking the control arm back up to reinstall the knuckle, the control arm slipped off of the jack and the spring ejected itself. If you see the above pic of the control arm bushing, you'll see where the arm came down so fast and with so much force that it notched the crossmember and itself in one fell swoop. Luckily I wasn't in the line of fire, as the spring took flight and slammed into my steel car ramps against the wall. Wifey came running out screaming "are you ok? What happened?" I assured her that I was physically ok, but if I was to explain what happened, that I would have to kill her. She gave me the biggest stinkeye gaze I had ever seen from her, but she went back inside and left me alone.
3rd time was the charm, as they say...
More assembly later, I learned that the Energy Suspension kits come with 1" sway bar bushings for my truck, but my truck has the 1-1/8" sway bar... Fail.
Bottom side buttoned up, and I went back to engine reassembly. This was just hooking hoses up and routing wires back, installing engine accessories and all the other crap I pulled to get the intake gaskets/spider done. I changed the oil and fired it up to a massive misfire. Thinking that I crossed a spark plug wire somewhere, went and traced all those again. They were good, so mini freak out moment later and I was thinking that my spider install was wrong...
Called a mechanic buddy that was telling me how he had done several of these before, and he told me that it was likely just an injector that was slow to wake up, and that I should run it for a few minutes and see if it clears up.
Well it did, so back to happy for me...
Wheels on and torqued, fluids full, and underhood tool checked, time for a test drive.
If it wasn't for being so time consuming, every vehicle that I ever owned would be full poly bushed... This is my third one personally, and I have helped a few buddies do their's, and the control/road feel is just a night and day difference. Love it!
The motor mounts are transmitting a bit more vibration than I would have expected in this application, but I still like it...
I aborted trying to do the rear spring bushings at this time. With the holidays, I figured it would be better to get the truck back together to drive it, then in a few weeks after life calmed down I will pull it back in the garage and finish it...
it's about time you finished 
running smoother with the gasket change and spider upgrade?
running smoother with the gasket change and spider upgrade?
Yeah, it is.
Gasket change was more due to external leaking, and the spider change was a moment of oppurtunity thing...
But I really think the throttle response is improved, and the poly's aren't hurting the feel either, power gets to the ground much faster, it no longer has to navigate through the blown out mounts...
And you're being far too kind @skunked , rear still hasn't been touched, so not done yet...
Gasket change was more due to external leaking, and the spider change was a moment of oppurtunity thing...
But I really think the throttle response is improved, and the poly's aren't hurting the feel either, power gets to the ground much faster, it no longer has to navigate through the blown out mounts...
And you're being far too kind @skunked , rear still hasn't been touched, so not done yet...
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nothing is ever finished right?
I almost always use poly where I can.
I almost always use poly where I can.
Nice works of works!
Sweet! Good job. I really need to reseal my entire 4.3 as it's oozing oil from every seal except the intake gaskets now. Front cover, valve covers, rear main and oil cooler lines. I'm just planning on doing it all when it's time to do a clutch. Yank it out one weekend reseal it, new clutch, new mounts and slam it back home. After cleaning the snot out of the greasy engine bay of course.
Rust protection costs extra in other parts of the worldMine is oozing from every where else too, but I don't notice a drop in oil between changes, so
Yes, but I'm catching grief at work. My only saving grace is the owner's son's truck leaks oil worse than mine. As long as I'm not parking in the same spot daily I can blame it on his ride. Ha ha..,
As long as it's still leaking, nothing to worry about. If you seal the leaks, how will you know if it's out of oil?
I'll give that try. Then I'll watch him laugh at me. At least I've not been exiled to park in the dirt off the parking lot yet.Just tell the bossman that you'll be fine with part of your Christmas bonus being a donation of parts AND labor to fix it.
Actually, for all the mess, it's not puking quarts of oil out of it. Between oil changes I'm usually only off less than a quart. It's not leaving puddles marking it's territory.
