Angelo, the sliders are for my SWB Montero (it's not a Raider). I'll be finishing those up after I get the engine back together, hopefully this afternoon. The Trailing arms are a set from a gen 2 SR I got out of the junkyard for Jon. My 89 already has 96 SR trailing arms that came with the 96 SR rear end that I scored off E-bay for $100 and swapped in last year. As you probably know the Gen 2 Arms are the same with the exception that they are a bit thicker at the weak points.



Why weld on gen 1 arms when you can just swap in Gen2's? Thats my philosophy at least. about 26 bucks for the pair at the yard I think..

Well I was making good progress today untill I got to cyl # 5 at which time I got careless and dropped a retainer..looked for it for 3 hours...Looks like I'll have to pick one up from the stealer tomorrow so I can get her back together...

Here's an old seal next to a new one. Note the hole size. Felpro gives you a couple of nice plastic sleeves that go over the valve stems while you install the seal. Once the seal is on you pull out the sleeve. It keeps you from damaging the seal on the retainer ridges.

I REALLLY have to do that in the next week or so... I can't let my Raider idle for more than a minute without the engine becoming my own personal fog machine.

Yea..I need to do my SR next..not looking forward to that one. I'd rather pull the heads on that one I think..no room with those cams and twice as many valves.

Boy, talk about a picture saying a thousand words. Easy to see from that pic why they blow smoke when they get worn.

Valve guide seals are done...now getting those hoses replaced and everything back together.

Well, got her back together today. I accomplished a lot with the engine that I needed to get done. Valve guide seals, Montero correct Valve covers, with new gaskets and cam plugs. All new coolant hoses in the back to the heater core and the throttle body. Those little ones in the back are not easy to get to.

It sure is nice to be able to put oil in the engine with out using a long <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/butwiggle.gif" alt="" /> funnel now that the right valve covers are on and the il filer cap is in the right place.



I think this cam plug was the main culprit in the variety of oil leaks that I'm slowly tracking down and fixing. someone got a little over zealous with the RTV. Yuck!



A half hour of idling and look at this. No Smoke...Amazing!




Still loads to do...SR steering box and UCA's are in the garage waiting to be put on and I need to finnish the sliders and design a front bumper..

I'm currently slowing going through the process replacing my valve stem seals (work and life keep interfering <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cyclops.gif" alt="" />). Out of curiosity, how did you install your new cam plugs? Did you put them in before putting the rocker arms back on, or did you put the arms on and torque them down, then install them?

Eric W.

I put them in before re-installing the rocker arm assembly. Seems like it would be hard to get enough room pound them in with the engine in. I applied just a dab of sealent at each corner of the rocker assembly per advised in the FSM.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. Thanks! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Eric W.