6.0 Tear Down

[Sparky83]

nice flat heads...


got more parts today... YAY!!!... paid a visit to the dealership today... now i got mounting of motor ability...

then made a side trip to harbor freight... opps... this box followed me home some how...

hehehe i love parts cleaner solvent...

the parts clean themselfs

a sorta before after kinda look...

the mayhem left behind..

 

[DNFXDLI]

Cool Shawn, parts cleaners are great!

 

[Sparky83]

that they are... makes the hands tingly afterwards too hehehe.. sad thing is that was after only 5 parts lol

 

[DNFXDLI]

You'd have to immerse yourself in stoddard solvent for a year before any adverse effects are noted...look at me.

 

[Sparky83]

lol i thought i had chemical gloves... but the apparently um... shrunk.. yeah that it they shrunk since the last time i used them... lol

 

[DNFXDLI]

 

[Sparky83]

going to have to do the intake a 2nd time... think there was so much crap in the cleaner it quit working as well..

 

[Sparky83]

Did a little work on the actual engine today... Pulled the oil pan and Rescued dads torx bit from the bottom of the pan...

and for those that never seen the underside of a 6.0... or what the pan hides lol.

hr later after playing with 3/4 gallon of cleaner...

didnt see the harm in cleaning the pickup tube since it didnt have a fiber screen like my gassers did...

cleaned up windage tray (or as ford calls it the upper oil pan)... New gasket thanks to Oreilly's... finally found them there... no thats not missed dirt on the bottom right... think at some point the tray was actually painted black...the dirt and oil crud just fell off with a little scrubbing...

bottom side with its own gasket...

I dont look forward to ever doing that again... and if it still leaks ill know its the bed plate... i wasnt going to do that one...

figured while im at it... old and new...

dealer was the only place i could find them...

cleaned off the cross member... driver side was nasty... was 1/4" thick with crud on it... when i took my sticker scraper to it - it literally curled like you see in ice cream or butter commercials...

 

[Sparky83]

some threaded holes magically appeared in my exhaust manifolds... wonder how that happened...

 

[aussie_f350]

Dual egt gauges!! That's what I will do on my new truck

 

[Sparky83]

Lol andy figured it out lol... Someday ill buy the gauges to fill them holes... Lol..

Gave the intake to my neighbor... He's going to see if he can get it cleaned out in his parts washer.

 

[Sparky83]

Got my intake back....

just a couple spots still with small layers.. but being that it had 1/8" coating (in the places i could access) all over the inside of oily gunk id say its 10000X better than it was...

best angles i could get down where the plenum hole...

^^^ pretty much how it looked throughout the inside

was able to clean some off in the areas i could get to but not all of it... the egr valve cleaned up like new when i did that a year ago.. still looked pretty clean when i pulled it back off...

 

[Sparky83]

someone suggested it... it was raining.. and i was bored... figured what the heck... i set up the little tree...

 

[Sparky83]

worked on the oil rails a little today...

btw.. yall dont see the picnic table being used as a workbench if the parents ask lol

found a little diamond...

how the old looked next to the new... news on top...

 

[Sparky83]

hmmm apparently forgot to share the rusty pics...

when i was cleaning off the exhaust manifolds i was getting chips like that coming off the mating surfaces for where it attches to the heads...

so eventually will need to replace them...

little bit more and itll be where the gasket seals the ports...

will use em for now... once i get the big bills outta the way ill replace em...

what ive been up to the last couple days...

just did the FICM bracket with regular temp paint...

little iris blue for it..

and for the others...

did get them painted with color too.. but weather started rolling in so didnt get the pics of the heads all color painted too...

 

[aussie_f350]

Looking awesome!!
Nice Chevy too!!!

 

[Sparky83]

Looking awesome!!
Nice Chevy too!!!

i grew up in that thing... kinda missing it... got an 85 to replace it with... moving the good 79 parts into it..

 

[DNFXDLI]

That's going to look great in your engine bay!

 

[Sparky83]

That's going to look great in your engine bay!

sure hope so... would be nice if i was painting the lower half of the block...

 

[DNFXDLI]

sure hope so... would be nice if i was painting the lower half of the block...

Lol...that's what got me in the mess of my 150!