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I finally finished pulling the engine this afternoon and pulled the heads off. There had to have been a burr or something on the intake cam at the front journal because it dug in hard. Now the fun of dealing with the shop again.

Good luck

Chris GTO TT wrote: ↑Mon Jan 29, 2024 1:43 am I finally finished pulling the engine this afternoon and pulled the heads off. There had to have been a burr or something on the intake cam at the front journal because it dug in hard. Now the fun of dealing with the shop again.

Eh. You have a repor. They messed up once I bet it’s easier.


Coop

Round 2!

They called this morning and they're building me a new head under warranty

nice

Yeah I was honestly expecting another $3k bill

That’s a huge win!


Coop

Goody. Should give you a bit of motivation to keep working on this

Hopefully they give you good head........s back.

ChargerX3 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:40 pm Hopefully they give you good head........s back.

I see what you did……..there.


Coop

I need to place a final order for parts to reassemble the engine, and I'm not sure where to spend a little extra. The chassis has 250k miles and I'm assuming the harness does too. I've broken a couple of clips on the engine harness, so i'm contemplating a new one from iWire. It's actually a custom built harness from the ground up. My other thought is to get some ARP head studs. I'm not really willing to afford both. The harness is $500 shipped, and the head studs are $250ish shipped. I'm just not sure where the money would be better spent

Which specific clips? Could you maybe replace those individually and then buy the head studs?

One of the tgv ones and one on the throttle body. The whole harness is just super brittle because it sits between the intake manifold and the block.

Given how you talk about this car, I wouldn't invest in a new harness. You can probably freshen up the one you have pretty cheap. Some modern Tesa harness tape and a couple of new or good used connectors should fix it right up.

Jeff V. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:04 pm Given how you talk about this car, I wouldn't invest in a new harness. You can probably freshen up the one you have pretty cheap. Some modern Tesa harness tape and a couple of new or good used connectors should fix it right up.

I'm kinda thinking about foregoing both items, but i just don't want to have anymore problems with assembly. Hence the headstuds. I might just use some safety wire to hold the clips on

Post a picture of them so I know what you're talking about.

Jeff V. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:18 pm Post a picture of them so I know what you're talking about.

This is the throttle body one ...
PXL_20240228_192609237 by christobal65, on Flickr

And

PXL_20240228_192649127.MP by christobal65, on Flickr

This is the TGV connection but it's not the broken clip one.

PXL_20240228_192705460 by christobal65, on Flickr

Those look like they should be pretty easy to disassemble and replace. Do you know if anyone sells them individually?