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How about this? I can't see the photoes here at work, if you cant follow the link.
This is for a 1997 4.3 V-TEC, Check the Chiltons manual.
http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/t892880.html
VISUALLY CHECK AND FEEL TO MAKE SURE THERE IS NOTHING INSIDE THE CYLINDERS.


New gaskets!!!

Place the new head gasket on the block using the alignment dowel pins for positioning.


Left gasket and head installed. Right side gasket in place.

When placing the head back on the gasket, set it straight down, and do not slide it around on the gasket or you could cause damage. You’ll feel the head meet up with the alignment dowels.

Follow the steps in the Haynes manual to torque the head bolts down. First, put them in finger tight, then there are multiple torque steps in the specified pattern. For the 97’s the last step is to rotate the bolt a given angular rotation based on the size of the bolt (55 degrees for short bolts, 65 for medium bolts, and 75 degrees for the long bolts). See the picture below. A good trick is to draw the angle out on a piece of cardboard. Simple trig will give you the lengths of the right-triangle’s legs. Tan(a) = opposite/adjacent where a = the angle you need. Place the cardboard so that one leg is along the wrench handle, and the vertex of the angle is as close as possible to the bolt and socket. Rotate the wrench until the wrench handle lines up with the hypotenuse of the triangle. You’ll have to go in order of the pattern, and keep track of which length each bolt is so that you use the correct angular rotation.


Angular rotation for final torque spec for head bolts (65 degree angle shown). You'll need to construct three triangles - one for each angle of 55, 65, and 75 degrees.
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WOW! Way to GO, PYTHAGORAS!:D
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budnipper1 said:
Of course, I was just being a smarta$$ AGAIN, but I learned the hard way about torque. A know-it-all so-called mechanic once told me that when I was rebuilding a VW motor. Afterwards, the bolts stripped out of the (aluminum):sick:head after about 1,000 miles. Had to tear it back down and use new oversized, self-tapping bolts to make the heads stay on. Got rid of it soon after...:laugh:

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Yeah I changed out the heads on a 1963 VW
many years ago, I think 1970. Had to be very careful with tightening the head bolts so I borrowed a friends torque wrench (clicker) and used, 2 foot lbs less than called for!! Worked until my Exwife totaled it.:nuts:
 
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The Market's Latest Victim: 'Buy-And-Hold' Strategy


By: Jeff Cox, CNBC.com | 30 Jan 2009 | 01:15 PM ET


As traditional market signposts lose their relevance, so does the traditional "buy-and-hold" strategy that investors have followed for decades.
Market pros in increasing numbers are eschewing the usual investing strategies and watching technical levels as their guides for making money. They examine temporary market tops and bottoms as guidelines when to sell and buy, and are in many cases utilizing funds rather than individual stocks to make their plays.
Earnings and economic data have proven unreliable to gauge the long-term prospects for the market, which has become a trader's battlefield. Money that once stayed put for three to five years can now get moved in three to five days or sooner.
"What's happening is people have learned that if you don't take a profit it goes away," says Kathy Boyle, president of Chapin Hill Advisors in New York. "Even somebody who's really biased towards buy-and-hold is giving up."
The phenomenon has been on display markedly since earnings season kicked into gear this month.
More than half the company's in the Standard & Poor's 500 have beaten earnings expectations, yet the stock index has dropped nearly 7 percent.
The economic data, meanwhile, have been close to expectations. Friday's report on fourth-quarter GDP was actually better than what Wall Street predicted—though at a 3.7 percent drop, the numbers were hardly encouraging. But investors seem to be ignoring the data.
Instead, they've turned towards more of a trader's mentality, pushing the Dow back up when it approaches 8,000 and the S&P when it falls near 800. It's a trend that bucks the traditional long-term horizon most investors are supposed to take, but for many it's working.
"The idea of saying valuations are historically low so we're just going to buy and hold, that comes at great peril over the next year or two," says Lee Schultheis, founder and chief investment strategist at AIP Funds in Harrison, N.Y. "But also being overly bearish might also come at peril if the government's able to get ahead of the curve on the liquidity-credit issue. Once that gets solved equities will have the opportunity to advance."[more]
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28932868
 
Those surely are some nice trees there my friend. I fear taxes owed more than I do devaluation. With a lot of in and outs that schedule D can be a real headache.
 
I found that Birch trees have an amazing history while finding that pretty Picture. Uncle Sam must have your money in order to give it to more deserving Americans!!:sick:
 
nnuut said:
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The Market's Latest Victim: 'Buy-And-Hold' Strategy
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OK, so what is your point.

OH! OH! I get it.

Mr. Long are you reading this.:laugh::nuts::cheesy:

The December FRTIB meeting minutes said the Plan lost over 34B dollars since May (see my account for more information). Gee, maybe if we had our unlimited IFT's the plan wouldn't have lost so much money. :rolleyes: Maybe the MB members where smarter than the FRTIB and figured out a better way to make money. NNNAAAAAA!!!!


Great article nuut.
 
nasa1974 said:
OK, so what is your point.

OH! OH! I get it.

Mr. Long are you reading this.:laugh::nuts::cheesy:

The December FRTIB meeting minutes said the Plan lost over 34B dollars since May (see my account for more information). Gee, maybe if we had our unlimited IFT's the plan wouldn't have lost so much money. :rolleyes: Maybe the MB members where smarter than the FRTIB and figured out a better way to make money. NNNAAAAAA!!!!


Great article nuut.
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MY point is? I dont'know, do you?
Economic Stimulus Payment








This year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:







"Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment? "
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.







"Q. Where will the government get this money? "
A. From taxpayers.







"Q. So the government is giving me back my own money? "
A. Only a smidgen.







"Q. What is the purpose of this payment? "
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.







"Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China? "
A. Shut up."







Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:







If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China.



If you spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs.



If you purchase a computer it will go to India.



If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala (unless you buy organic).



If you buy a car it will g o to Japan.



If you purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan.



And none of it will help the American economy.







We need to keep that money here in America. You can keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, or spend it on prostitutes,
beer (domesticONLY), or tattoos, since those are the only businesses still in the US
 
nnuut said:
MY point is? I dont'know, do you?
We need to keep that money here in America. You can keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, or spend it on prostitutes,
beer (domesticONLY), or tattoos, since those are the only businesses still in the US
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Yes. Gonna buy me a big sack of GA peanuts!:D
 
nnuut said:
Don't buy GA peanut butter right now!:embarrest:
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Are you close to Blakely? I saw it on the map, down in the southwest corner of Georgia.

"self-proclaimed Peanut Capital"...

On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it was joining the Justice Department in a criminal probe of the Peanut Corporation of America's factory in Blakely as a result of an outbreak linked to the plant that has sickened 500 people in the United States and Canada and may have killed eight.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUKTRE50T6UZ20090130
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Now this thing is really getting serious!! :o

US Liquor Sales Come Up Short in 2008
By: Reuters | 30 Jan 2009 | 12:32 PM ET



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U.S. sales growth of distilled spirits slowed last year, a trade group said on Friday, proving liquor is not immune to a recession.
The Distilled Spirits Council of the United States (DISCUS) also abandoned its practice of giving industry forecasts for 2009, citing marketplace volatility.
The trade group joins a growing list of companies, including Fortune Brands that say it is too hard to predict results in the recession.
DISCUS said U.S. revenue for spirits companies rose 2.8 percent to $18.7 billion in 2008, while sales by volume rose 1.6 percent to 184 million 9-liter cases.

That represents a slowing from 2007, when revenue rose 5.6 percent and volume rose 2.4 percent, and DISCUS's prior forecast, which called for revenue growth of 4 percent to 5 percent and volume growth of about 1.9 percent.
"Contrary to popular belief, the entire beverage alcohol sector is recession-resistant, not recession-proof," said DISCUS CEO Peter Cressy in a press release.
Exports of U.S. spirits, primarily American whiskeys, rose 8 percent to $1.1 billion in 2008, the group said, citing double-digit growth in Australia, Canada and France.
The DISCUS data come a day after Fortune Brands, maker of Jim Beam bourbon and Sauza tequila, posted weaker-than-expected profit and said fourth-quarter global spirits revenue was flat, excluding the impacts of inventory destocking by distributors, currency fluctuations and higher Australian taxes. Including those factors, sales fell 16 percent. [more]
http://www.cnbc.com/id/28934651
 
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