Cleaning Heads & Intake while off
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Re: Cleaning Heads & Intake while off
looks like you had an intake leak. You could bring them to a machine shop and have them hot tanked. Or you could use some degreaser and a brush. Quick question for ya, why didn't you leave the fuel rail on the intake when you took it off? Seems like a lot of extra work you did.
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Re: Cleaning Heads & Intake while off
Originally Posted by 1-bad-z28
looks like you had an intake leak. You could bring them to a machine shop and have them hot tanked. Or you could use some degreaser and a brush. Quick question for ya, why didn't you leave the fuel rail on the intake when you took it off? Seems like a lot of extra work you did.
Didn't have a ride to get the fuel line disconnects.
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Originally Posted by robvas
Eww. Thats how mine looked. I think the previous owner forgot to change the oil.
http://robvas.dyndns.org/rob/cars/97z28/openlt1.jpg
http://robvas.dyndns.org/rob/cars/97z28/openlt1.jpg
Looked? What'd you do to clean it up?
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Re: Cleaning Heads & Intake while off
Originally Posted by 1-bad-z28
looks like you had an intake leak. You could bring them to a machine shop and have them hot tanked.
How much would a shop charge to hot tank? I need to take the heads in anyway to have the header bolts that snapped off drilled/tapped.
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you could get those bolts out yourself with a drill and a screw extractor. You would have to call a local machine shop to find out how much it costs. Things like that vary a lot from place to place. To give you an idea, it cost $125 to hot tank my block, magnaflux, install new freeze plugs, bore the cylinders, and hone them and deck the block. So just hot tanking your heads and intake shouldn't be much. They would look brand new when done though.
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Re: Cleaning Heads & Intake while off
Originally Posted by 1-bad-z28
you could get those bolts out yourself with a drill and a screw extractor. You would have to call a local machine shop to find out how much it costs. Things like that vary a lot from place to place. To give you an idea, it cost $125 to hot tank my block, magnaflux, install new freeze plugs, bore the cylinders, and hone them and deck the block. So just hot tanking your heads and intake shouldn't be much. They would look brand new when done though.
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