'95 Supercab Rehab - Dumb Questions Thread

[SenorNoob]

Do you have compressed air available? They often get build up inside that makes them impossible to get apart. Alternating cleaner (I use brake cleaner), penetrating oil (PB Blaster), and compressed air should clean it up enoughtto get it apart.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

I’ve used a variety of tools on those things. Finally broke down last year and bought a set of the aluminum tools for releasing those and they work better than any other tool I’ve tried. The hard part is that at least around here, rust tends to creep into the end of those fittings up to the first O-ring which makes getting it apart next to impossible. I try to clean out the spring area as best I can and try to get the fittings to rotate before I ever try releasing the spring. If I can get some movement, there is a better likelihood of it coming apart.

 

[Rick W]

Another thought about putting it back together. Of course, clean both sides of the connection as best you can. When you put the new O-rings and springs in, dip them in a little rustoleum.

No, wait a minute, that’s the other project,I didn’t mean that. Goop, E6000, that’s what I meant to say

Put the tiniest bit of E6000 or GOOP on them, and if there’s a tiny little pit somewhere, you won’t get the pinhole leak. But you’re just using a tiny tiny little bit.

 

[lowspeedpursuit]

Today's the day for the cam synchronizer.

I'm having trouble understanding what's going on back there. Upper intake is off. Engine is (hopefully) at #1 compression TDC. Cam sync bolt is loose.
Is this thing supposed to spin, or start lifting out, or something? It doesn't move at all, and the bolt is directly underneath the plug. I assume it's just stuck? But I don't want to snap the sensor off, and I can't see a goddamned thing.

Honestly not sure how you're supposed to align the new one. Apparently '95 doesn't take the alignment tool, it has this little window. But since it's impossible to see behind the engine, I don't see how I can look through the window. This dude is installing the window sync, but he has the engine out. Service manual talks about using a voltmeter for final alignment, but you're still supposed to use the window first.

EDIT: Plug snapped off the sensor. Still zero movement. Whoever designed this thing is a toolbox.

EDIT 2: Suggestions from around the web include "hit it from below or through the passenger wheel well", which is... not a thing. Maybe if it would already rotate so the connector was facing further aft/towards the passenger side? And "slide hammer up off the sensor screw-holes", which I also don't see happening. Even with the trans crossmember nuts off and the transfer case jacked up into the bottom of the body, the slide hammer won't clear the cowl.

I have been prying and beating on this fucking thing for an hour, and it has not moved half a mm.

EDIT: It did move half a mm, right before continued attempts to pry and slide-hammer shattered the top of the housing. I really don't see how I could possibly get this thing out even if I had the engine out, and I almost can't belive it's in such a dumbshit spot.