BUILD THREAD 86 GP 2+2~Blown 6.0

[81cutlass]

Pulled the water pump, timing cover, dropped the oil pan and valve covers last night. Should be able to swap the cam tonight.

Would have gotten more done but my buddy brought his 3800 for his fiero over and we started swapping the cam. (there is pictures somewhere earlier in the thread when we did the SC3800 engine swap last year)

And ebay had a 15% off sale on a everything so i ordered some new springs, shocks, lower ball joints, and some gaskets and seals for the 6.0. I just dumped my summit shopping car into ebay and get 15% off stuff I was going to buy through summit anyways. Score!

 

[81cutlass]

Makin progress!

Swapped cams
Pinned crank
ground a small groove in the valley cover to my knock sensor harness would fit
Put the oil pan valve covers water pump and timing cover back on, changed some gaskets that were suspect

AC and blower is next. I gotta order some AC fittings next up.

My shaft was too long 😛 , had to take out the AC condenser to get the cam out

They say if you look at the cam bearings they will be bad, not great but not bad either.

And Bam!

 

[Turbolq4]

Those look better than the ones I just took out of my last engine.

 

[mclellan83]

Clones!

She touched my peppi Steve!!!!!!

 

[81cutlass]

Those look better than the ones I just took out of my last engine.View attachment 85398

Ouch those are toast!

I must have gotten lucky with this engine. I bought it as a core for $200 from a western ND oil field truck. Guy i bought it from picked up this 03ish 2500 it up from a slumber jay or haliburton surplus action. Brought it home to part it out and the engine was in it but no wiring was connected, wasnt bolted in or anything. Turned out at some point they pulled the 03 alum head engine and dropped in this 99-00 iron head 6.0. He pulled the engine and listed it as a core, I had my tax money and thought why not, 6.0's sell for 800 regularly so even if it needs a rebuild its a good deal. Bearings look good and when I had the heads off to swap to alum 317's there was no cylinder wear.

Sometimes you get lucky!

 

[motorheadmike]

Those bearings are fine. There is a rumour about the factory line honing the cam bearings before cam installation to true everything up... which is why you see copper sometimes.

 

[Turbolq4]

They look like that because they dry start with the valve springs pushing the cam into the bottom of the bearings. The tops feel like 80grit sandpaper most of the time. I've had a bunch of them apart and they all pretty much look the same.

 

[81cutlass]

Had to reroute some fuel lines and test fit my AC pump. Fuel lines used to run through the frame and dump out where the crossmember is (stock location), but the AC pump sits where I need them to go now. Rerouted them between the inner fender and AC box area so its a bit farther away from engine heat and I freed up that space for the AC pump/ Also build some seal strips out of teflon for the supercharger and bolted the assembly together.

All that work and nothing looks changed 😛

 

[81cutlass]

Did some wire harness cleanup, bolted the fuel rails back on, and test fit and mounted the AC pump. I am a bit concerned I don't have enough belt wrap on the main balancer, but I will run it as is and see. I have another way to route it but i need to build an idler and a tensioner from scratch which id rather not do.

Also measured up my heat exchanger for the intercooler and decided to redo my heater hoses because they were a bit ugly and in the way.

Also did some wiggling of my steering components and found my tie rod ends and idler arms are schwasted, so its not JUST going to be springs shocks and ball joints this time around. Wohoo....

It's a tight fit between the frame, steering, crossmember and engine. 10 lbs in a 5 lb bag.

 

[81cutlass]

Just a little progress here and there, an hr a night adds up!

Heater hose lines rerouted, catch can and FPR on, belts and everything back on, coil packs back on.

Waiting for the intercooler pump and then to order the heat exchanger.