Oooh you know I love new parts! Looking good man. Gauge panel is super slick.
Well for the most part they were a swing and a miss.
The speedi-sleeve was for if the crankshaft was out of the engine. Having never put one on any engine before I did not know that. So there I am with the wrong part in hand, borrowed tranny jack and high hopes of putting a tranny in today so I got innovative.
The problem is the sleeve had the lip on the outside so you install and then peel the lip off. Don't work when that is inside the engine block. I probed it and I couldn't have gotten it on far enough to cover the seal area. So I put it on backwards, wasn't too hard. Then peeled the lip off. "hey this might actually work"
Put the seal on, sleeve is nowhere to be seen, the seal chased the sleeve farther in yet.
So I drill a hole in my new seal, pull it and sure enough the sleeve is a quarter inch deeper into the engine. I manage to work up a bit with a pick, get needlenose on it to assault it some more, the needlenose vicegrips to jerk it off. I was kinda scared there for a bit actually what kind of mess I got into. Didn't get any pics of the process but I have spent $25 on more fun activities.
So crap, beautiful day and I am dead in the water AGAIN. Whats left to keep this thing moving. Backup lights, my favorite passtime of late.
I removed two wires from each connector housing to clean it up a little, I think they may have relayed VSS info to the computer once upon a time to the best I can find. No computer so no worries. I moved one wire so the colors kind of match up too.
Truck side is installed:
BU light harness is finished, it is now plugged in and safely hanging down outside the frame rail awaiting the installation of the trans.
Ok, what else? Heat shield needs dealt with, so it is now tightly reriveted in place. I used large head pop rivets originally intended for holding poly skidplates on the bottom of combine heads.
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Also pressure washed off my trans crossmember.
I ran into town and grabbed a new seal, nobody had the correct sleeve so that part of the debacle is dead in the water until Tuesday. Once I delete the NSS I am kinda running out of stuff to do...