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Teardown 9Plan was to get all fluids drained for the day, maybe a little too ambitious. I was moving fast so I will go back and get a few pictures but found a few not so pleasant surprises.Looks like the right side of my oil pan gasket might be leaking, it's not enough to cause a drip but it's wet and cruddy and I may have had a small seepage from the oil pan drain plug, it was wet on the underside of the pan but I swear I used a brand new crush washer and torqued it to spec last year so who knows.Also discovered I had some kind of coolant leak coming from the lower coolant pipe drain bolt in the center tunnel. I had the water pump replaced two years ago so I would think if this was going on then they would have seen it so my best guess is it's been slowly leaking for two years. I cleaned up the pipe/bolt so I could drain the coolant but here is the center tunnel cover to give you an idea.I then moved up front to drain more coolant but then got distracted by removing the old ABS system. Thanks to @VANSXTC and his T-Bleeder it made relieving the pressure a piece of cake. Good news is the system was under A LOT of pressure. I actually had to open and close the bleeder several times to fully bleed the system. Means it's working properly so that makes me happy for whoever uses it next since I'm going 00+ ABS upgrade. My hands were covered in brake fluid so I didn't get many pictures.I struggled with brake lines for the better part of the afternoon and lost sight of the coolant. I forgot how back breaking removing all the lines are. Not to mention the stupid cruise control unit gets in the way of a full rotation for the wrench so I took a few minutes to dismantle that.
Teardown 9
Plan was to get all fluids drained for the day, maybe a little too ambitious. I was moving fast so I will go back and get a few pictures but found a few not so pleasant surprises.
Looks like the right side of my oil pan gasket might be leaking, it's not enough to cause a drip but it's wet and cruddy and I may have had a small seepage from the oil pan drain plug, it was wet on the underside of the pan but I swear I used a brand new crush washer and torqued it to spec last year so who knows.
Also discovered I had some kind of coolant leak coming from the lower coolant pipe drain bolt in the center tunnel. I had the water pump replaced two years ago so I would think if this was going on then they would have seen it so my best guess is it's been slowly leaking for two years. I cleaned up the pipe/bolt so I could drain the coolant but here is the center tunnel cover to give you an idea.
I then moved up front to drain more coolant but then got distracted by removing the old ABS system. Thanks to @VANSXTC and his T-Bleeder it made relieving the pressure a piece of cake. Good news is the system was under A LOT of pressure. I actually had to open and close the bleeder several times to fully bleed the system. Means it's working properly so that makes me happy for whoever uses it next since I'm going 00+ ABS upgrade. My hands were covered in brake fluid so I didn't get many pictures.
I struggled with brake lines for the better part of the afternoon and lost sight of the coolant. I forgot how back breaking removing all the lines are. Not to mention the stupid cruise control unit gets in the way of a full rotation for the wrench so I took a few minutes to dismantle that.
