FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

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FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

Postby Rawkkrawler » Tue Feb 28, 2017 5:14 pm

Let me know if you need a set of hands, i may be available for a couple of hours.
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FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

Postby Carracer » Tue Feb 28, 2017 6:35 pm

Same.
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FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

Postby BrilloHeadBen » Tue Feb 28, 2017 9:42 pm

I'll be there at 9am on Saturday morning. This should hopefully be a fairly routine engine swap, so I'd like to go a bit slower and keep everything organized as we take it off of the car. Normally I go the zip lock bag with sharpie notes route, and I plan to do that this time as well.
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FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

Postby Loren » Tue Feb 28, 2017 10:15 pm

Cool beans. I'll have the car in the garage ready to go.
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Postby twistedwankel » Tue Feb 28, 2017 11:14 pm

Heart transplant.
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FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

Postby Native » Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:15 pm

I'll come by. Can do about 10ish-130ish.
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FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

Postby twistedwankel » Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:18 pm

The Fastiva Lives. I am glad.

Why am I glad? Ben offered me a co=drive.

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Postby Loren » Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:54 pm

It doesn't live yet. But, all we have to do is swap an engine Saturday. How hard could it be? :thumbwink:
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FASTiva Blown Head Gasket -- Wat Do?

Postby Loren » Sat Mar 04, 2017 9:06 pm

Okay, NOW it lives!

Thanks to Mike, Steve, Carl, and of course, Ben for coming help with the engine swap. Started around 9:30. Had the new engine in and running by 3pm. We're getting disturbingly good at this!

The new engine is running just dandy, no oil leaks, no smoke. Need to tweak the timing a bit, but it's ready to rock.

Closing the book on this thread. Mission accomplished! :thumbwink:
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Postby Native » Sun Mar 05, 2017 12:35 am

Wonderful!
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