Late night head gasket swap at Lobstah's Garage

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I had been meaning to post these pics for some time now and just got around to getting them off my phone. See a description of the adventure here. I am hoping Lobstah will be able to laugh at this now as I dont imagine he found it very funny at the time. Again, I cant thank you enough man, you saved my ass. Props to Jerrid and Joel as well as those of you who came by to assist.

The red arrows indicate slight oversights in our positioning of the head gaskets:

Yes, they are IN BACKWARDS. It is kinda funny now that its over. I wont be upset if you laugh.

 

[-=Lobstah=-]

I blame it on the beer ....

 

[-=Lobstah=-]

So wasn't me ...

 

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I blame it on the beer ....

Umm, yeah ... I guess I left that part out of the story. We might have had a couple ... cases ...

 

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So wasn't me ...

I also had nothing to to with it.

 

[STInate]

 

[inski]

Did you flip the gasket? If not there is an important passage blocked. Also, when the gasket is backwards the head bolts go in not-so-smooth, especially the top center one. The holes line up but not exactly and the gasket puckers.

This is a closed deck 2.2L but they all have the same passage from the block thru into the head.

 

[-=Lobstah=-]

It got fixed the right way next AM

I realized that it was wrong, right after i turned the engine 90 degrees into the right position and saw funny protrusions on both sides

.... "FFFUUUU"

Tell me something like that happened to you before

 

[Chris]

This is a closed deck 2.2L but they all have the same passage from the block thru into the head.

Can I haz nice shiny closed deck 2.2? haha

I was there for part of the head gasket "adventure". Good times....

 

[inski]

It got fixed the right way next AM

I realized that it was wrong, right after i turned the engine 90 degrees into the right position and saw funny protrusions on both sides

.... "FFFUUUU"

Tell me something like that happened to you before

Oh yeah.

I was doing head gaskets in the car, right side, coolant dripping on my head, sweating like a pig, wondering why something wasn't right as I struggled to hold the head over my head with one hand and cram bolts in with my other hand. 20 minutes of swearing I decided to pull the head off and see WTF was holding me up. Bingo, gasket backwards. It fits so well either way. Just that one hole is off a smidgen, and that passage on the wrong side. I felt pretty smucken fart. I'd done a ton of them before and let myself rush it a bit and made a silly mistake.

Oh well, flip it, torque it, ship it. Good to go for another 100,000+ miles!

Can I haz nice shiny closed deck 2.2? haha

I found that pic on the NASTISOC classifieds, last post was April, still for sale

 

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Did you flip the gasket? If not there is an important passage blocked. Also, when the gasket is backwards the head bolts go in not-so-smooth, especially the top center one. The holes line up but not exactly and the gasket puckers.

It was corrected the next day, which is where the thanks to Joel from Evergreen comes in as he came in on a day off to supply us with the new set of gaskets. Also, since I had to be at my sons birthday party for a few hours, Lobstah took on half a day of the 26 hour ordeal without me even being there to get me back on the road. This whole project is the perfect example of what makes this site and its members/associated businesses so fantastic. I hope everyone keeps me in mind if they need anything as I owe this community bigtime.

 

[topdeeni]

I felt pretty smucken fart

a fart smellah huh?

someday I am going to have to stop into Evergreen so U can poke me in the eye for this one....of course I will bring the Toyota and leave the Sewbie at home