Pro tip, if you can’t finish the whole job in one day or don’t have lots of spare space, put all of your bolts and brackets and parts all in separate ziplock bags with a label and put them in order so you know exactly which ones come next!

Great little motors. Over a mill in mine and it still goes hard on stock bore and crank

Thank you for this educational video you don't get to see the inside of the engine often 😀 luckily

They really are a thing of beauty, top upload guys, fantastic stuff

also that oil drain is called the oil seporator drain extension.

Awsome job👏👏

Beautiful job guys👍

This would’ve helped me so much 6 months ago when I had to figure out how to remove the head 😂

my gasket was cracked in the exact same spot!

It's "Einlass" und "Auslass" literally "Inlet" and "Outlet". Pronounced somewhat like Ainluss and Ausluss. The "a" should sound like the a in Florida.

Hey, I live in FL and have T1n 2006 2500 dodge. I’d love to have a conversation with you if you have time. Thank you for your videos! I look forward to hearing from you. Michael

@FloridaVanMan

4 ай бұрын

Email sent/replied.

370k on my 2003 , it has had head gasket seepage down the block at that exact spot since new . Now the seepage is very obvious and it’s loosing coolant slowly and the radiator cap pops like a champagne cork . Still runs great as good as the day I drove it off the showroom floor. But getting a little concerned it may be time to replace the head gasket…. How long can these things go on a “blown head gasket “

@FloridaVanMan

2 ай бұрын

I don't recommend it but I've done the trip Florida to Chicago to Toledo adding water hourly. Watch that coolant level and don't trust the temperature on the dash gauge. When the coolant is low the sensor will read only steam.

my van is sitting at a diesel mechanic shop seeing if they can extract an extremely tight broken injector hold bolt deep in that hole. looking at these videos to see if ill have to replace the head (like some farmers around me are saying) or maybe if I take just the cover off and cam cover off/ ill be able to get a better angle at it to extract the original bolt. Any words of inspiration here. figure if I can get a better grip on the actual extractor bit down there I can extract it my self. My other option was just adding a heli coil on top and put a bandaid on it essentially. idk what to do.

@FloridaVanMan

8 ай бұрын

Please don't put a short bolt on top of the broken bolt. Left turning drill bits might help get the broken bolt out and we have videos about repairing stripped bolt holes and drilling broke bolts out. Search our channel for "Black Death".

Can you replace the head gasket without taking the engine out?

@gabemartino5634

8 ай бұрын

I found an oil leak coming from the back corner, near the location where this gasket was cracked. Would you recommend that it is time for me to replace the head gasket?

@gabemartino5634

8 ай бұрын

Correction: leak is coming from the valve cover seal, not the head gasket…sry

@FloridaVanMan

8 ай бұрын

Yes, I've replaced a couple head gaskets with engine in the van. It is back-breaking work and now that I have taken a few engines out I probably will never do head gasket work again without removing the engine from the van first.

@FloridaVanMan

8 ай бұрын

I've not seen a head gasket leak oil or coolant to the outside. The valve cover gasket will be the oil leak in that area 99 times out of 100. That is much easier than head gasket but all the injectors still need to come out, so valve cover gasket is a mid-range job.

@gabemartino5634

8 ай бұрын

@@FloridaVanMan thank you, good to know the head gasket most likely won’t leak to the outside. And yes I was mistaken, it’s the valve cover.