Going through the torqueing heads part, broke an adapter to my torque wrench, so needed to run for a replacement (two is one, one is none,,, bought two,,,)
And now that I am back home, the rain is really coming down and probably will be for another hour (according to the radar) and I decided those heads aren’t going anywhere and I wants COFFEE!!!! (and a quick lunch)
Kittehs are not at all pleased with my control of the weather,,, they insist that I FIX THIS,,,, Somehow, its all my fault,,,, sigh,,,
At least Voo is ok with staying put near the heater and calling it a day,,,, he is the elder though,,, (at least in dawg years,, gots me beat by about 20 years if that seven years per actually applies.) He’s only came out once to tell me that I MUST walk him to his poopy-place,,,, on the Cuz’s parking spot of all places,,, Damned amazing how karma just keeps biting Cuz in the ass and dropping dawg turds in his place.
Anywhoos,,,, I will have the heads torqued back on shortly, new bolts for the exhaust flanges as well, and then comes the fun of putting all that extraneous bullshit that gets bolted to an engine back in place… Biggest worry is the wiring harnesses,,, plastic protectors get damned brittle after 305k. I don’t want to be chasing ghosts later because of some broken plastic that allowed wires to rub.
and that reminds me,,, the GM engineers that came up with those GROUNDS on the back of the heads, with almosst ZERO clearance,,, WTF?over? I got ’em back on, but for F!’s sake, what were they thinking? I swear, they need to be taken into the feild and made to work on THEIR SHIT for a year, and that silly nonsense would CEASE,,,, (and I know, the engineers are given a body design and its their job to shoe-horn the drivetrains in, and things can get a bit wonky when the company REFUSES to retool a block just for one design.)
