gotta love when a friend shows up with $70 you forgot about..got all the gaskets i need to slap it back together and got to go out to dinner with my family. Picked up a head gasket, intake manifold/exhaust manifold gasket, and a valve cover gasket which i still need to clean and paint..wanted to do that to the intake manifold as well, but i don't know how i am going to be able to do that.

 

OH and i realized that under the dirt and grime that made the line i was asking about on the radiator look like one piece were two little clips..i pushed them down and WALLA off came the line and the radiator is free from the jeep, thanks offroadnut and xjkid

 

glad t o help. cant wait to see it go back together!

 

Good to hear! Good luck with the head gasket replacement too!

 

shouldn't be too bad as long as i can remember where everything goes..lol

 

haha That's a good thing to remember.

 

true, but i remember the bolts for the head that have studs on top and not just bolt heads on them go on the drivers side of the engine, its all the wiring i am worried about although i didn't really disconnect too much wiring..but i have all data if i need it so i should be ok.

 

Yeah, there really isn't very much wiring to disconnect.

 

yeah new problem....my torque wrench doesn't go to 110 ft lbs...so i cant torque the head down all the way. Also i have brand new lifters in there and my rockers are still wobbly like i can move them with my hands is this normal for hydraulic lifters? is it just because that portion of the cam is not pushing the lifter up? Other updates are i got my intake mani cleaned and painted looks great. now i just have to get a freeze plug to replace on the block and a radiator and i can put it all the way back together.

 

new pics







and of course the freshly painted intake manifold



and with a jeep you paid 450 dollars for you can't take anyting apart without having something else to clean..lol

 

so i decided that i am probably going to go OME budget boost for now due to it only being 299 with shocks..but we will see i wan't to be lifted and have a decent set of tires sooner then later, plus my buddy with the 4.5 RE lift i was going to buy is buying his 8.5 sooner then thought so it probably wouldn't be long till i was sittin at 6.5 inches.

 

mine sits at seven i wouldnt go any higher than that

 

lol i thought the title read "project with midgets' at a quick glance

 

thats funny i thought the same thing till i read it again

 

thats funny no..no it stands for what the hell did i get myself into