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Originally Posted by Jooseppi Luna
Well, progress has been slow, but I have now gotten the fuel rail pulled and replaced all of the injector seals and filters. I was going to clean them with a HF ultrasonic cleaner, but they look quite clean already (I suppose its 50,000 miles have been on decent gas). I confirmed that I have Dexcool, and bought some Prestone Dexcool and two bottles of Prestone radiator flush. The next steps will be to remove the alternator and unbolt the PS pump to push it out of the way. After that, I will drain the coolant and pull the lower manifold, followed by the pushrods and then the gasket.
I need to look in the FSM and see if the oil needs to be drained for this.
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you dont need to drain the oil to do the lower manifold, but its best to change the oil after the job as a lot of "stuff" drops into the cam valley. Before closing it up wash the cam area with some ATF or thin engine oil to "wash" the area. cut 4 pieces of blue shop towels and wad one end into the rectangular openings and drape the tails outwards so that the coolant can be wicked up and drain outside the engine rather than into the cam cavity.
its not a very hard job. change the distributor/oil pump drive O ring while at it - its right there. If you buy the NAPA kit - it already comes with the required O ring.