And we're back at it
Pushed the car around and worked on getting the engine and transmission back in
Planned ahead and setup a plywood runway making this 10 times easier than coming out
Cranking the load leveler and precisely maneuvering this hunk in cause I refuse to remove the front clip
Load leveler was hitting firewall, managed to switch to a chain and get it the rest of the way in and then got to work connecting everything else, transmission mount, rad, wires and all the little things here and there
Got everything running but horribly, wouldn't start at first, then wouldn't idle for more than a few seconds, its dumping coolant under the car and I couldn't tell from where at first, starts revving a little bit more and suddenly it starts detonating ****. It was late, closed up and went to bed.
Got up this morning and immediately found the water leak, massive leak right at the thermostat housing, squeeze the hose and it pukes, pulled the housing off and found a huge chunk corroded that the seal wasn't filling, ran out to the store and found a Felpro 25565 seal, much larger and sealed against much more material and the missing chunk was no longer an issue. Pulled belt off, threw a brand new one on all aligned nicely, dialed in distributor timing and detonation is long gone. Conclusion I was a dumbass in the last 3 months and messed up timing after replacing front main seals.
At the beginning I told myself, "oh yeah I can totally do a clutch, reseal front and rear mains, oil pan and transmission in a week. I actually ended up rebuilding the transmission, updating to 91+ PS pump and a new r134a AC pump, intake gaskets and a few more things, also dragging my feet on getting it back in the car but now we're back on the road, gotta go get tags once again
Up next EFI because it doesn't smell like it's gonna pass emissions but we'll see