zxappeal seems slammed. need a good mechanic that knows what he's doing. i need the valve seals on my 94 ram done (318). also i would like the plenum gasket done.. and front diff, tranny, transfer case fluid changed out.

pm me for who can do it and at what price.

kthx.

7/25/2006 1:30:38 AM

ask Igor about it in a week when he gets back from Camboodia

7/25/2006 1:49:16 AM

take the heads down to loop road. I think they rebuilt the heads on my old olds V8 for something like 300 including parts (new valves too)

7/25/2006 7:05:35 AM

^pm sent.

7/25/2006 9:49:49 AM

HRT up in Durham is an excellent machine shop as well. Maybe a bit more expensive than most, but you get what you pay for.

7/25/2006 12:03:18 PM

thx guys. i think i might just not pull the heads and replace the seals..

[Edited on July 25, 2006 at 1:15 PM. Reason : .]

7/25/2006 12:56:09 PM

not hard to do yourself, you just need an air line to 14mm spark plug adapter and a valve spring tool, pop off your valve cover, take off the rockers, with all the plugs out, pressurize the cylinder you are workin on, compress the springs with the tool, take off the retainers and springs, replace the seals, reinstall the sprins and rockers, and repeat 8 times, then readjust your clearances, and pop the covers back on

7/25/2006 5:20:52 PM

^Easy job. I have the air adapter, but I don't think I have my bar-style spring compressor (the best kind for the job) any more. I still have two others, but one of them is an off-the-engine valve spring compressor (my favorite).

You can get the bar for under 15 dolla at most parts places. To do it on the truck/engine you DO need an air compressor, though.

7/25/2006 5:25:57 PM

i have a homade one from a piece of flat bar for tight engine compartments on small block fords, but as cheap as they are, hed probably be better off to buy one

7/25/2006 5:34:26 PM

yep. valve seals are DEAD easy on those motors. plenum gasket isn't any harder. while the intake is out, might as well go ahead and just pull the heads, replace head gaskets, and have them completely rebuilt. or throw some r/t heads on with an m1 intake i would at least reccomend some porting/polishing on the stock manifold and tb, some very decent gains to be made.

7/26/2006 5:45:54 PM

while the intake is off, not that much more trouble to replace the timing chain and slap a hotter cam in there too, just gotta get that radiator and condenser out of the way

7/26/2006 9:35:00 PM

lol would love to slap a hotter cam on and do all this work, gets shitty enough gas mileage as is though!.. i might as well just have the heads redone while im at it. the only prob is the bottom end has 200k so i dont want to be slapping a hotter cam on an engine that is on it's way out (rings). of course if it does blow i could have the heads thrown onto a short block and call it a day. we'll see how this plays out late august.

got the truck stuck last night too front axle got stuck in some mud. dug her out with shovels and got attacked by fire ants

the work will be done, tentatively late august. at least valve seals and plenum gasket. at most, heads pulled new head gasket etc.. hotter cam cant afford unless they are dirt cheap

i was going to do the diff fluid, tranny and transfer case myself.. but the damn bolts are rounded out. my friend said he can weld a bolt onto them and get them off?

my 318 is pretty low on power right now i dont know if the truck is supposed to be "fast" or "quick" in it's low mileage state but i have to shift at around 2000 at least to just cruise around.

[Edited on July 26, 2006 at 9:48 PM. Reason : .]

7/26/2006 9:44:16 PM

is really not that big of a deal to yank the engine on that thing, 3-4 hours tops in the driveway with a helper, my plan usually goes, yank it out thursday afternoon, strip it thursday night, get it to the machine shop friday morning, pick it up that night, build it on saturday, put it in sunday morning, and get drunk sunday aternoon


been through this ordeal a few times

7/26/2006 10:01:29 PM

^wanna do mine

[Edited on July 26, 2006 at 10:33 PM. Reason : i'd pay you and help out! ]

i'm also getting a front end alignment done.. costs 60 bucks can anyone do this and i pay them less like 40ish

i get paid either this friday or def. on the 31st to whoever wants to undertake this task haha. the other guy that i have lined up to do it hurt his lower back and wants to wait till the end of august to do it.. fug that she eats a quart of oil roughly every 500 miles haha.

im switching over to 20w50 weight oil we'll see if that helps.

[Edited on July 26, 2006 at 10:42 PM. Reason : asdf]

7/26/2006 10:33:15 PM

take it to waketech, they'll align it for a hamburger

7/26/2006 10:58:53 PM