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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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thanks Norm i baby sit last night , not much sleep but i loved spending time with my grand baby i put heads on today ex manifolds but i did not see on lifter tightening, tomorrow smoking ribs & hotlinks for game ,while smoking , i will find chilton and see what they say , do you remember how you ran your valves? on some of my hot rods i take lifter all the way down tighten till pushrod stops spinning in fingers and then a extra 1/4 to 3/4 turn, but on transam's you just tighten them all the way down i guess some kind of set self adjust ? and i went ahead ane tightened hard lines and grounds man they still suck, but now they are behind me:D,i see you snuck in my shop and took picts:laugh:
 
kar crazy said:
Left gasket and head installed. Right side gasket in place.

thanks Norm i baby sit last night , not much sleep but i loved spending time with my grand baby i put heads on today ex manifolds but i did not see on lifter tightening, tomorrow smoking ribs & hotlinks for game ,while smoking , i will find chilton and see what they say , do you remember how you ran your valves? on some of my hot rods i take lifter all the way down tighten till pushrod stops spinning in fingers and then a extra 1/4 to 3/4 turn, but on transam's you just tighten them all the way down i guess some kind of set self adjust ? and i went ahead ane tightened hard lines and grounds man they still suck, but now they are behind me:D,i see you snuck in my shop and took picts:laugh:
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I am way too rusty to be much help, especially since they don't make 'em like they used to and I didn't try to keep up. But, you just described the difference between adjusting solid lifters and adjusting hydraulic lifters... back in "the old days". :)
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Good work, on the lifters you just torque them down to 20 foot Lbs?, unless you have a 1994 Z VIN motor, EASY!! Make sure your TDC on #1, but you know that!! The one I did was a 1998 W VIN. Now comes the fun part!! Engine_2.gif mechanic.jpg
 
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When my spouse worked in law enforcement, he was on a task force that had to go in to the Mustang Ranch to do a personal property inventory for RICO Act charges. He said it was a real eye-opener! ;) :laugh:

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budnipper1 said:
I am way too rusty to be much help, especially since they don't make 'em like they used to and I didn't try to keep up. But, you just described the difference between adjusting solid lifters and adjusting hydraulic lifters... back in "the old days". :)
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i still live in the good ole days:D on solid i gap @ 17 , i like these new ones as far as setting valves kind of like old pontiacs you bring piston up all the way then torque @ what ever specs they call for , some times they help us shade tree guys , but there is alot they could improve on , like clearance on back side of heads(ache):laugh: Thanks B N and Norm
 
kar crazy said:
i still live in the good ole days:D on solid i gap @ 17 , i like these new ones as far as setting valves kind of like old pontiacs you bring piston up all the way then torque @ what ever specs they call for , some times they help us shade tree guys , but there is alot they could improve on , like clearance on back side of heads(ache):laugh: Thanks B N and Norm
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No thanks necessary, I still owe you for that Great Deer Jerky!!:D
 
Here's some of the items that the REPUBLICANS and conservative DEMs want deleted from the Obama Bailout: This is a joke right?:worried:

GOP leaders in the House on Monday put out a list of what they call wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the stimulus bill. Some of the measures include:
• $650 million for the digital television (DTV) converter box coupon program.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $1 billion for the 2010 census.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters. Read the list of 'wasteful' items
The $819 billion bill that passed in the House last week is two-thirds spending and one-third tax cuts.
Much of the $550 billion in spending is divided among these areas: $142 billion for education, $111 billion for health care, $90 billion for infrastructure, $72 billion for aid and benefits, $54 billion for energy, $16 billion for science and technology and $13 billion for housing.
One change already made in the Senate version is the addition of $71 billion to fix the Alternative Minimum Tax, which was intended to place a tax on the wealthy but now hits many middle-class families.
The Senate bill also adds a $300 payment to seniors, disabled people and others who can't work, and suspends taxes on the first $2,400 of unemployment benefits. [more]
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/03/stimulus/index.html

Here's all of them!!:nuts: All of the wasteful payouts!!


$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.

• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.

• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html
 
Heh, some of this needs to be in the regular FY2009 budget.

Hybrids for federal use, can we trade in the flex fuel ones since few appear to be "flexing"?

Homeland Security can use their own funding for furnature. How about getting rid of HS instead of trying to fit it in a new building, its too big to manage. At least pull out FEMA, it's not a domestic security agency, and anything run by an Office Director lacks the power to react in an emergency. And what's with this FBI salary add on? These belong on the HS budget.
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However, I do see some things that DO belong in the package that are on the list. Flood control for the Missisipi is a BIG problem and a BIG project that right now is run piecemeal with each State putting in dams to push the water away from their respective cities. Yes, our Building is named for Hoover, and hasn't been overhauled since before the war.

Ditto for Canal inspection, it's been ignored for far too long.

And as for making Federal buildings Green, we have some of the worst energy munching, leaky, big energy bill buildings right here in DC. This will save money in the long term.
 
We used to have a fleet of hybrids, Nat Gas, but no infrastructure to support them, so they were all sold off, probably for scrap.

Flood control is a big problem on the Mississippi River, but what towns are building any dams to protect there towns from flooding? Levee construction along the Miss River is the responsibility of the Corps or SCS, those that are still standing. Some towns may be rebuilding old levees they have owned for years, but flood reduction plans have been on the boards for years, but we gotta get the greeie weinies out of the way. Good infrastructure projects though. But $500 million is just a drop in the bucket. For example it was estimated in 2005 that it would cost $2.5 billion to protect just New Orleans from Katrina. Infrastructure is very expensive.

And the $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs would be another good infrastructure projects if it's the construction of wastewater and water treatment plants and not just covering garbage dumps. Folks don't realize that most rural waste (as in flushing the toilet) water goes into the local creeks, then downstream to where most of America, east of the Mississippii gets there drinking water. Yum Yum

The FutureGen zero emissions plant is a good one also, if nothing else, for the technology that will need to be developed. And folks may not like coal, but it's going to be around for another generation or so.

That's about all I saw that was considered Infrastructure, not mentioned by Silverbird, I may have missed a couple, but most of it look liked big Government Growth Package to make more people dependent on the government. Not a lot of real work in this package.

CB
 
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It's easy to see there is MUCH in this bill that should not be there, the funds should be used like as intended and not for PORK, or to fund programs that are supposed to be funded by other means. To me this type of a thing is exactly why we are in the situation that we are now. Transparency is needed in Government, so that our legislators are held accountable for their actions.:nuts:
 
nnuut said:
It's easy to see there is MUCH in this bill that should not be there, the funds should be used like as intended and not for PORK, or to fund programs that are supposed to be funded by other means. To me this type of a thing is exactly why we are in the situation that we are now. Transparency is needed in Government, so that our legislators are held accountable for their actions.:nuts:
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