justthatguy
Josh(69 Valiant)
Some of you may know that my Valiant died during the summer on a trip. It's now time to try and get the thing roadworthy again, so I have an oil pump and a felpro gasket set to replace the valve cover seal. I just have a couple of questions. 1) Are there any special procedures to getting the oil pump on, and how would I go about doing this? I have a couple repair manuals, and they specify removing the engine from the mounts and elevating it to access the pump. Is there any way to make this easier? 2) And, does the valve cover really need to be torqued? The manuals say so, but I wanted someone's opinion that knows what they're doing.
As a sidenote, I went to crank it after it had sat for 4 months, and, with a couple primes, it started right up (while billowing smoke in the process. It was like a damn cloud generator). I think some of the brakes are stuck, the transmission is probably slipping, the radiator is clogged, the water pump is probably useless, and the parking brake is definitely useless. I'll tend to that stuff later. I really want to take the oil pan off and find out what the overheating did to the bottom end (I'm a little scared I'll find bits of things in there, so I'm apprehensive). I want to try and get it running again so I can have a neat summer ride. This car seems really labor intensive and my grandpa's 69 2 owner Road Runner runs better.
Thanks for the help.
As a sidenote, I went to crank it after it had sat for 4 months, and, with a couple primes, it started right up (while billowing smoke in the process. It was like a damn cloud generator). I think some of the brakes are stuck, the transmission is probably slipping, the radiator is clogged, the water pump is probably useless, and the parking brake is definitely useless. I'll tend to that stuff later. I really want to take the oil pan off and find out what the overheating did to the bottom end (I'm a little scared I'll find bits of things in there, so I'm apprehensive). I want to try and get it running again so I can have a neat summer ride. This car seems really labor intensive and my grandpa's 69 2 owner Road Runner runs better.
Thanks for the help.