Topic: Going under the knife tomorrow!

[MyBigToy]

The truck goes in tomorrow to start the cam installation. What's going in? Cam, springs, retainers, hardened pushrods, 3" pulley for the Magnacharger, crank pulley will be pinned, new timing chain/gears. I'm also changing the coolant while I'm in there. I'll be needing a shorter belt but I haven't bought it yet.

I'm planning to drive it (very easily!) on the current tune until I can get the tune updated; I think I'll have Nelson Performance provide me with a good base tune as I don't want to screw anything up. The last thing I want to get done, which I also haven't purchased, is a Hooker Maximum Flow 3" muffler with a single 3" exit. Then I'm done with the modding on the Av until the tranny goes out.

Edit: Oh yeah, I forgot about the 160 thermostat.

I'm thinking 4-wheel drive burnouts are probably pretty fun! 

[bluedevil]

The truck goes in tomorrow to start the cam installation. What's going in? Cam, springs, retainers, hardened pushrods, 3" pulley for the Magnacharger, crank pulley will be pinned, new timing chain/gears. I'm also changing the coolant while I'm in there. I'll be needing a shorter belt but I haven't bought it yet.

I'm planning to drive it (very easily!) on the current tune until I can get the tune updated; I think I'll have Nelson Performance provide me with a good base tune as I don't want to screw anything up. The last thing I want to get done, which I also haven't purchased, is a Hooker Maximum Flow 3" muffler with a single 3" exit. Then I'm done with the modding on the Av until the tranny goes out.

I'm thinking 4-wheel drive burnouts are probably pretty fun! 

Im jealous.    You doing the work?

[MyBigToy]

Im jealous.    You doing the work?

I'm helping. I didn't feel like I should try to tackle it by myself so it's going to the shop that originally installed the Magnacharger. They said I could help all I wanted so that's what I plan to do unless I'm just getting in their way. 

[bluedevil]

I'm helping. I didn't feel like I should try to tackle it by myself so it's going to the shop that originally installed the Magnacharger. They said I could help all I wanted so that's what I plan to do unless I'm just getting in their way. 

Thats cool.  Im taking my AV to the shop too and ask if i can supervise.

I would think all that can be done in 1 day.

[MyBigToy]

Thats cool.  Im taking my AV to the shop too and ask if i can supervise.

I would think all that can be done in 1 day.

I'm sure it could be done in one long dedicated day but there's other cars in the shop also. Trey, one of the shop's owners, is going to do the work. He's also picky and takes his time. I don't mind as I much prefer it's done right than quickly. And I think 42K miles on the Magnacharger install with zero issues kinda says something about how well they do things.

I'm guessing we'll be done after day 2.

[oHIobellboy]

I'm sure it could be done in one long dedicated day but there's other cars in the shop also. Trey, one of the shop's owners, is going to do the work. He's also picky and takes his time. I don't mind as I much prefer it's done right than quickly. And I think 42K miles on the Magnacharger install with zero issues kinda says something about how well they do things.

I'm guessing we'll be done after day 2.

   

[Richie_Rich]

Sounds like fun.

I hope all goes well.

[bluedevil]

Well?  How did it go? 

[MyBigToy]

I'm still in pieces in the garage. The shop owner called late Tuesday afternoon and said he had some concerns about the cam and pushrods.  He had some calls in for consultation.

One of the pushrods was burred on the end and the hole was almost closed; it is also about 0.020" shorter than the others. Some of the others are not perfectly straight (I don't think this is an issue because the "out of straight" is very small). I told him to not mess with them if there was a question and to just buy another set. He's going to do just that and compare the straightness to the others; if there is no significant difference he's going to buy just 8 instead of 16 so he can replace the bad one. At least it's only, at worst, another $130 out of pocket.

I went down yesterday morning and took a look at the cam; there were some very small pits on the journals, one of which was in the travel path. You couldn't feel it with your fingernail but it was visible; you could barely feel it with a toothpick. Since it's a roller cam I said I was inclined to go ahead and use it. However, I only want to have to do the work one time so I ended up taking the cam down to a machine shop (old-school hot rod type shop) that makes their living doing engine work and rebuilds. Three of their engine guys looked it over and said, with no hesitation, that there would be no problem using it. At least I get to keep most of the additional money I have set aside for other mods! 

We're back into it today but I'm guessing it won't be ready now until sometime next week, with the New Year's holiday and weekend coming up. We're going to get everything that we can done while we are waiting for the new pushrods to be delivered - we had no success finding them locally, which really surprised me.

The best-laid plans of mice and men...........................Murphy always seems to screw things up.   

[bluedevil]

Are these the new pushrods?