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Old 04-13-2022, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by crystalworks View Post
Wait! You're doing this and you don't even have smoke yet?! Mucho respect. Good work and keep up the progress.
Yeah I’m just doing this as preventative maintenance. I figure at this point in its life, the job is right around the corner anyway. And I’m fixing a valve cover and upper timing cover leak, so I don’t wanna have to buy all those associated parts again

I bought this specifically as a project car, and i have to say I’ve had a lot of fun with it. My bank account hates me since I’ve purchased about $10k in new parts, but I’m having fun lol

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Originally Posted by sandbagger View Post
you might be able to find some spark plug wire pullers that are at a 90deg ?

I have the 3.0L so no worries on this motor but many years ago I did seals on a Ford Tbird Turbo Coupe, 2.3L I4 I swear the stem seals were bakelite (hard plastic) I just used vice grips and they exploded, new rubber seals just slid on nice
I’ll look into those pullers, thanks. I’m taking this slow, only working when I have a few hours to do a full cylinder, so I’ll have some time to order something that will work better. I have several busy weeks/weekends coming up so I won’t have too many free evenings to work on it. The seals on this car have a metal shell, but the “rubber” part is more like plastic now.
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