It was time to replace the valley cover (along with belts, new fan clutch, valve cover gaskets, leaking ps hose, new front/rearbrakes, and some other things while you are there).
Not too complicated of a job, but you do have to remove a lot of things to get to the valley cover that tend to leak with age.
Pretty much everything on top of the intake manifold along with the manifold needs to be removed. Ignition coils, wiring, vacuum lines, fuel rail, manifold, tb, fan clutch, water pump, coolant pipes etc).
top view
cylinder banks
fuel rail has only one line going to it, no return line, i believe the fuel filter (next to replace) has an integrated fpr in it. another nice thing about this fuel rail is it's valve on the passenger side, I used it to relieve the fuel pressure and not spray fuel everywhere.
vacuum stuff
once you remove a bunch of stuff, you can get to the manifold
tb is off
all gaskets front to back will be replaced and tb/manifold will need some cleaning, pretty nasty
i had the valve covers blasted, and put on to not drop anything inside the engine. the driver side fresh air duct needs to be removed in order to access the back of the intake manifold
manifold is off, ready for cleaning and new front/rear/bottom gaskets
you can see the pipe under it that must be disconnected before the manifold can be lifted up
now time to remove fan clutch/water pump/belts,pulley and the coolant pipes (and install new o-rings).
vacuum everything and cover the intake ports , also knock sensors need to be removed in order to lift the valley cover up
[img]water pump/rad/tstat was recently replaced, i'll just replace gaskets again
it's fun to remove the pump, it's got 6 bolts, and the bottom one is PITA!!!
coolant pipes off
old valley cover
new one did not come with the top black plastic cover... strange design.
new one test fitted after cleaning all the surfaces etc
Now a quick question for those who've done the valve cover job on these cars. Do I need to cut this off, flush with the head or leave it? I am installing new valve cover gaskets and don't know if these will overlap or if they need to be cut?
Need to pick up a new heater hose to replace while I am there tomorrow.
Valve covers have been blasted, new gaskets test fitted.
More tomorrow lol
Not too complicated of a job, but you do have to remove a lot of things to get to the valley cover that tend to leak with age.
Pretty much everything on top of the intake manifold along with the manifold needs to be removed. Ignition coils, wiring, vacuum lines, fuel rail, manifold, tb, fan clutch, water pump, coolant pipes etc).
top view
cylinder banks
fuel rail has only one line going to it, no return line, i believe the fuel filter (next to replace) has an integrated fpr in it. another nice thing about this fuel rail is it's valve on the passenger side, I used it to relieve the fuel pressure and not spray fuel everywhere.
vacuum stuff
once you remove a bunch of stuff, you can get to the manifold
tb is off
all gaskets front to back will be replaced and tb/manifold will need some cleaning, pretty nasty
i had the valve covers blasted, and put on to not drop anything inside the engine. the driver side fresh air duct needs to be removed in order to access the back of the intake manifold
manifold is off, ready for cleaning and new front/rear/bottom gaskets
you can see the pipe under it that must be disconnected before the manifold can be lifted up
now time to remove fan clutch/water pump/belts,pulley and the coolant pipes (and install new o-rings).
vacuum everything and cover the intake ports , also knock sensors need to be removed in order to lift the valley cover up
[img]water pump/rad/tstat was recently replaced, i'll just replace gaskets again
it's fun to remove the pump, it's got 6 bolts, and the bottom one is PITA!!!
coolant pipes off
old valley cover
new one did not come with the top black plastic cover... strange design.
new one test fitted after cleaning all the surfaces etc
Now a quick question for those who've done the valve cover job on these cars. Do I need to cut this off, flush with the head or leave it? I am installing new valve cover gaskets and don't know if these will overlap or if they need to be cut?
Need to pick up a new heater hose to replace while I am there tomorrow.
Valve covers have been blasted, new gaskets test fitted.
More tomorrow lol
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