Blew a coolant hose last night on the way back from San Diego yesterday...I forgot my tool kit that I usually have in the back at all times..gas station was of little help. No tools there to buy and the lady threatened to call the cops on me for trying to fix it in the light of their gas station <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" /> I guess service stations these days don't like to help out too much <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> temp fixed it with a dime and and a key as screwdrivers to reposition the hose clamp on a small hose on the throttle body. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> got out of there in the nick of time,,,how dare I break down at the gas station <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Anyways, I had to pull the plenum to get at the other end of the said hose. figured I should replace all of them while I was at it, we dont want this to happen again.

Well, I figured since I had the plenumn off now was a good time to put on those valve covers I have in the garage with the correct hose outlets and oil filler cap in the right spot.(someone swapped in 3.0 with FWD covers) ...then I figured since I had the valve covers off I might as well do the valve guide seals and take care of the smoke at idle....What the hell? I thought I was just going to replace a couple hoses <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Crappy camera phone pics:

cam journals look good and it doesn't look like the valve guides have dropped, good sighn but that's the only one I got off today, waiting for the seals to get here in the AM so I can do one Cyl at a time. Note the Rope.



Here's the rocker Assembly out with the compressor tool. Used the fingers of latex gloves per the write up in the archives (Pmontero?) to keep the lash adjusters from falling out of the rocker arms.




before all this happened I mounted a Nippon Denso auxiliary fan from a Mazda MPV behind the grill but haven't had time to wire it up yet..I'll talk about that after I get the Valve guide seals on and the, valve covers and hosed replaced...