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Posted: Sat Jun 27th, 2020 09:45 am

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JAMMAN
Owns A Torsen

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Location: Grove City, Ohio USA

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Some will hate for this but I ran out of time. I didn't want to order a bunch of gaskets and half rebuild an engine if I couldn't get the bolts out or tried to get the bolts out of the manifold at the head and snap one off in the head making it so I needed to remove the head and take it to a shop to drill it out, maybe wrecking the head even though I have spares.

With the used torch I bought I was able to get the bolts out of the manifold at the exhaust flange. I took the valve covers off and saw that it looks in good shape as advertised when I bought it. My single cab ranger that is running has extreme ball joint problems, the new job I start monday has a 1000 foot driveway that might as well be an off road trail, I need this thing to run before monday. I'm buying valve cover gaskets, buttoning it up and planting it. Today. I'll drive it around tomorrow if nothing pops I'll take it monday. If it still works the short cab is coming apart and the Mevotech TTX stuff is going on.

So no oil pan gasket, no rear main seal, no o rings sorry. I stalled on buying a torch but came across this one on marketplace for 250 and the tanks were over half full. The O tank ends up being almost full. Thing looks barely used. Couldn't make a decision till I knew if the bolts were coming off and didn't factor in a job starting Monday.

I can get the valve cover gaskets locally. If the new job works out I can rebuild the old 4.0 for the next project :) Or buy that Dart 5.0 block laying on the floor and one of the billet cranks laying around... :) Or do that 1100 HP BT4.

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