Cliff notes:
I used a vacuum and water to flush a paper wad out of the block's water jacket.
disclaimer: BY NO MEANS ARE THESE RECOMMENDED METHODS WHEN OPERATING ON A 7M
What happened:
I was prepping the block deck and needed to seal off the water jacket, bolt holes, and oil galleys. I used folded strips of papertowel, which successfully kept out all debris, sprays, and even withstood the occassional graze from a brass(coated! :3d_frown
wire wheel.
If you've stuffed water jacket holes, you will have noticed that your trying to stuff concave openings that open wider the deeper you penetrate :naughty: so it is difficult to determine what works best.
With that in mind, all my work went fine until it was time to set the head. Using needle nose pliers, I skillfully pulled out all but the EXHAUST SIDE PLUG OF CYLINDER ONE (1), which shoved deeper before I could artfully retrieve it.
That battle was lost, but not the war.
I continued to assemble the engine, reaching the point where all of the coolant lines were accounted for and therefore either in system or plugged off.
At first I intended to actually leave the paperwad there and hope for the best... NO.
I lost sleep over it, and I hate doing work over, and decided to flush it out. So I traded the hose from the union-nut deal on the back of the head for a feet-longer piece and pulled the lower radiator hose from the waterpump/block outlet.
As I was mulling over how I was going to adapt the garden hose to the long coolant hose, it hit me that I have a shopvac who's end would fit into the lower rad hose, and I would be able to suck rather than blow the paper wad out. So I got a small bucket of water, put the coolant line in, hooked up the shopvac to the rad hose and hit the power.
After 2 gallons of water siphoned through the engine, I opened up the vacuum and found not one but two strips of paper. Go figure.
My intention with this post is an attempt at looking smarter :biglaugh:
J/k - DON'T GIVE UP is the moral
-Dave
I used a vacuum and water to flush a paper wad out of the block's water jacket.
disclaimer: BY NO MEANS ARE THESE RECOMMENDED METHODS WHEN OPERATING ON A 7M
What happened:
I was prepping the block deck and needed to seal off the water jacket, bolt holes, and oil galleys. I used folded strips of papertowel, which successfully kept out all debris, sprays, and even withstood the occassional graze from a brass(coated! :3d_frown
wire wheel.If you've stuffed water jacket holes, you will have noticed that your trying to stuff concave openings that open wider the deeper you penetrate :naughty: so it is difficult to determine what works best.
With that in mind, all my work went fine until it was time to set the head. Using needle nose pliers, I skillfully pulled out all but the EXHAUST SIDE PLUG OF CYLINDER ONE (1), which shoved deeper before I could artfully retrieve it.
That battle was lost, but not the war.
I continued to assemble the engine, reaching the point where all of the coolant lines were accounted for and therefore either in system or plugged off.
At first I intended to actually leave the paperwad there and hope for the best... NO.
I lost sleep over it, and I hate doing work over, and decided to flush it out. So I traded the hose from the union-nut deal on the back of the head for a feet-longer piece and pulled the lower radiator hose from the waterpump/block outlet.
As I was mulling over how I was going to adapt the garden hose to the long coolant hose, it hit me that I have a shopvac who's end would fit into the lower rad hose, and I would be able to suck rather than blow the paper wad out. So I got a small bucket of water, put the coolant line in, hooked up the shopvac to the rad hose and hit the power.
After 2 gallons of water siphoned through the engine, I opened up the vacuum and found not one but two strips of paper. Go figure.
My intention with this post is an attempt at looking smarter :biglaugh:
J/k - DON'T GIVE UP is the moral
-Dave
