Modding.
Should I even bother?
Pulling engine and trans to change front seal, what should I tear down/look for while it's apart?
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just rebuild whole tranny and engine and dont worry about miles![]()
^^Hmmm, not necessary.
I'd pull the front cover on the engine and change the timing chain and put a new chain dampener on it. Get a new gasket and possibly a new WP and gasket too if you wanna toss the extra 30 bucks at that. Get a new rear cover gasket too...trust me...with those many miles they deteriorate and that'll be the failure of the engine when it denigrates and you have no oil pressure and spin a few bearings. I'd take off the top end too and do new coolant elbows and LIM gaskets; aluminum ones. Get new plugs for it along with wires, new PCV, fuel filter, etc...just a big tune up. Check the engine/trans mounts too...you can get new solid rubber replacements from AutoZone. I'd get rid of the Dexcrap too in favor of green or yellow coolant.
do yourself a favor and hook an oil pressure gauge up to it. see what kinda pressures you are running before you even touch the motor. if they are low and ****ty then its not worth modding it because youll need a new motor after you put more heat into it.
Coming from Mr. 8psi
I was at 10 and it ran like a champ LOL
30 at hot idle. Upwards of 75-80 at full throttle. Happy now?
wow 8 psi with 5w30my 19 year old SBC 350 with 226K on it ran around 15psi hot with 5w30 in it idling at 500rpm and and 25psi at 2000rpm, the poor thing was beat in a work truck. It would bounce up to around 45psi at 3k or so. But it had an occasional main bearing knock on startup.
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