What did you do to the G today?
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Why are you due? Oil leak, or oil in the spark plug tubes?
A = Yeah I have oil leaking from the driver side. Not bad but enough to burn off the manifold and make for a stinky ride.
I bit the bullet and went with ebay valve covers. Saved over $300. They were a perfect fit so we'll see how the seals hold up. I found no leaks in any of my spark plugs so I still have a set of good oem ones. It literally took me all day with some breaks between and I took my time taking pictures of details so I didn't miss anything.
When I would take a hose off, I'd put tape around the hose and the location it went to with matching numbers on the tape so I didn't connect a wrong hose.
A = Good idea. I will follow suit.
Pulled most of the wiring harness out and had to jack the car up to remove one harness from the ac compressor or condenser? I'd recommend buying new pcv hoses from z1 because I cracked two of them and had a loud air leak I had to find the next day. If I had to do it again, I could probably have it done in about 4 hrs
A = Yeah I have oil leaking from the driver side. Not bad but enough to burn off the manifold and make for a stinky ride.
I bit the bullet and went with ebay valve covers. Saved over $300. They were a perfect fit so we'll see how the seals hold up. I found no leaks in any of my spark plugs so I still have a set of good oem ones. It literally took me all day with some breaks between and I took my time taking pictures of details so I didn't miss anything.
When I would take a hose off, I'd put tape around the hose and the location it went to with matching numbers on the tape so I didn't connect a wrong hose.
A = Good idea. I will follow suit.
Pulled most of the wiring harness out and had to jack the car up to remove one harness from the ac compressor or condenser? I'd recommend buying new pcv hoses from z1 because I cracked two of them and had a loud air leak I had to find the next day. If I had to do it again, I could probably have it done in about 4 hrs
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Just the pcv kit which is 3. I still have the driver side valve cover to do but I don't want to take the throttle body off again. They do sell a master kit, and after installing the 2 it made me want to change out all my hoses to the blue silicone ones to dress up the engine bay a bit. Maybe just the cooling lines. It's hard to find pics of anyone installing the master set. The guy I talked to at z1 said they are all handmade
Just the pcv kit which is 3. I still have the driver side valve cover to do but I don't want to take the throttle body off again. They do sell a master kit, and after installing the 2 it made me want to change out all my hoses to the blue silicone ones to dress up the engine bay a bit. Maybe just the cooling lines. It's hard to find pics of anyone installing the master set. The guy I talked to at z1 said they are all handmade
I have that same Z1 kit.
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I forgot to put that hose back on when I did my valve covers last weekend and didn't see a way without rrmoving the TB. Maybe possible, but I'm trying to keep my hands clean this weekend
Decided to take the G out given it was a nice day today. My stent to to the video store was short lived...
Driving on the highway just cruising in 6th, I started smelling oil and figure it was the truck in front of me.
About 100 yards before my exit, I noticed my oil pressure light was on. F***k, it wasn't the truck...
Throw in the clutch, coast on into the off ramp and of course I get the light. Limp in another 100 yards to the gas station right of the exit.
There is oil all over and down the passenger side. I'm 4 blocks from home...
Grab 4 quarts of oil and throw 3 in to see if the oil light simply goes out. NOPE, so I shut her down.
I get out and find a giant pool of oil some, dirty residual oil, but mostly the new oil I just threw in.
Buddies came to the rescue with a low pro jack, tools, rags, clamps, you name it. One of them even brought a filter and some oil.
Anyways, jack her up, undo the under-tray and discover one of the Aeroequip oil cooler lines came off the barbed AN fitting that fastens to the Mocal adapter.
Slip it back on and throw on a hose clamp. Added some oil and started her up again.
No weird sounds so I limped her home where I proceeded to cleanup the mess.
Ill baby it around for some miles and do an oil change. Inspecting the mag-plug and Ill cut the filter open.
Hope to God I didn't hurt anything.
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Decided to take the G out given it was a nice day today. My stent to to the video store was short lived...
Driving on the highway just cruising in 6th, I started smelling oil and figure it was the truck in front of me.
About 100 yards before my exit, I noticed my oil pressure light was on. F***k, it wasn't the truck...
Throw in the clutch, coast on into the off ramp and of course I get the light. Limp in another 100 yards to the gas station right of the exit.
There is oil all over and down the passenger side. I'm 4 blocks from home...
Grab 4 quarts of oil and throw 3 in to see if the oil light simply goes out. NOPE, so I shut her down.
I get out and find a giant pool of oil some, dirty residual oil, but mostly the new oil I just threw in.
Buddies came to the rescue with a low pro jack, tools, rags, clamps, you name it. One of them even brought a filter and some oil.
Anyways, jack her up, undo the under-tray and discover one of the Aeroequip oil cooler lines came off the barbed AN fitting that fastens to the Mocal adapter.
Slip it back on and throw on a hose clamp. Added some oil and started her up again.
No weird sounds so I limped her home where I proceeded to cleanup the mess.
Ill baby it around for some miles and do an oil change. Inspecting the mag-plug and Ill cut the filter open.
Hope to God I didn't hurt anything.
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