What PSI should the cylinder be for valve stem seal replacement?

[byM5]

Originally Posted by wsmeyer

Geez at that point I would just pull the heads off and get a 3 angle valve job. That would put a lot of fresh life into the engine.

wsmeyer you jinxed me!!!

as I was rotating the engine, I heard a bunch of watery burbling from Bank 1.

I had a lot of air loss on bank 1 while doing the valve seals.

As I was cranking cylinder 1 ejects what seems to be a cylinder full of coolant from spark plug hole. No I did not test it. But there couldn't be anything else.

So, off comes bank 1 head!! Deck, magnaflux, 3 angle valve job.

This car is killing me!!!

I think the coolant pipe snuck by too long.

This job was started because I had smoke coming out of the tail pipe which got worse and worse in winter. I didn't bother to check the color of the smoke. I just assumed it was the valve stem seal job calling. I did get some blue smoke at drive throughs during the summer but never in the winter. i then started to get smoke at drivethrough in winter. Also I checked the PCV and they had fluid frozen in the PCV bank 1 pipe. So, I assumed that was moisture getting into the engine from leaky VC gaskets. A tiny bit of chocolate milkshake going on.
Fast forward to now

I also discovered some loose bolts as someone else has been fooling around with bank 2 which had a lot of oil leaks around VC gasket.
My guess is that bank 2 head gasket has been done. It had perfect air seals on all 4.

Obviously bank 1 is getting pulled.

But what is the consensus for bank 2?

Pull or no Pull?

Thanks

[740iS]

Originally Posted by byM5

wsmeyer you jinxed me!!!

as I was rotating the engine, I heard a bunch of watery burbling from Bank 1.

I had a lot of air loss on bank 1 while doing the valve seals.

As I was cranking cylinder 1 ejects what seems to be a cylinder full of coolant from spark plug hole. No I did not test it. But there couldn't be anything else.

So, off comes bank 1 head!! Deck, magnaflux, 3 angle valve job.

This car is killing me!!!

I think the coolant pipe snuck by too long.

This job was started because I had smoke coming out of the tail pipe which got worse and worse in winter. I didn't bother to check the color of the smoke. I just assumed it was the valve stem seal job calling. I did get some blue smoke at drive throughs during the summer but never in the winter. i then started to get smoke at drivethrough in winter. Also I checked the PCV and they had fluid frozen in the PCV bank 1 pipe. So, I assumed that was moisture getting into the engine from leaky VC gaskets. A tiny bit of chocolate milkshake going on.
Fast forward to now

I also discovered some loose bolts as someone else has been fooling around with bank 2 which had a lot of oil leaks around VC gasket.
My guess is that bank 2 head gasket has been done. It had perfect air seals on all 4.

Obviously bank 1 is getting pulled.

But what is the consensus for bank 2?

Pull or no Pull?

Thanks

A lot would probably say don't worry about bank 2, but I've always been of the mindset of to do both at the same time. Especially with the work you're planning for bank 1 head.

[byM5]

Originally Posted by 740iS

A lot would probably say don't worry about bank 2, but I've always been of the mindset of to do both at the same time. Especially with the work you're planning for bank 1 head.

I agree!
But those exhaust bolts are frozen!!

What's the easiest way to pull motor?

I'm thinking through the front.

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