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    No power steering after head gaskets.

    Just wanted to finalize this post. 2 issues figured out later. The power steering pump leaked more than Britney Spears at a frat party, and a few injectors were not working whatsoever. I mean dead dead. Replaced the injectors and the PS pump and runs nice! Now I just need to stick some bigger...
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    No power steering after head gaskets.

    I better also say it's a 2004 dodge ram 5.7 hemi. 129k
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    No power steering after head gaskets.

    So I did the head gaskets on my non running ram I got. Not sure if it had power steering before I got it. Good part is now it's running great. No check engine lights but I have no power steering after I was done. With that a few questions. Does it matter on the oil cooler attached to the...
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    All exhaust pushrods fall in? Can't see the lifters?

    I am so used to doing LS heads I think I just thought that and tried to shove them in.
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    All exhaust pushrods fall in? Can't see the lifters?

    Well this is past embarrassing and I'm glad I didn't un-torque the heads yet. I was staring down the oil ports, not the push rod ports. Being awake since 2am is playing with my common sense. As soon as I rested the rocker arm on it I realized it
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    All exhaust pushrods fall in? Can't see the lifters?

    I will yank off a head tomorrow. Can I reuse that head gasket or should I just be smart and spend the few measly dollars for new? ... I think I just answered my question
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    All exhaust pushrods fall in? Can't see the lifters?

    Okay so I'm either overthinking this or I have a big problem. Heads were sent out, resurfaced, new springs, etc... I put new lifters in. The intake push rods seem to push in ok but the exhaust valves fall all the way in if I let them. I used a camera to look down the hole and don't even see the...
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    Fuel rail end broke off in quick connect

    Here is the after and the fuel line tool I used!
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    Fuel rail end broke off in quick connect

    Hi everyone, so I took a break from the problem! Cleared my head and came up with I think a pretty genius solution. I took a screw and put a few washers under it. Under the washer I put the fuel line disconnect tool. I screwed the bolt in and at the same it pushed the fuel line disconnect tool...
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    Intake gaskets

    I used felpro on my Chevy 5.3 and someone else's suburban and holding up just fine. I have over 50,000 miles I'm sure on them. No issues.
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    Weird clip Found between cylinder head and block

    Here is an update. I pulled all the lifters without absolutely no issues. None stuck amazingly. Lifters are actually in nice shape except the fact that quite a few of those lock clips have fallen out of the lifter. All the lifters came out whole with no missing pieces. I took my camera and...
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    Weird clip Found between cylinder head and block

    What happened to chemicals I saw in the 80's and 90's. With like skulls and crossbones with high and bright yellow warnings of never mixing that cleaner with other cleaners? Now I have potpourri smelling crap that doesn't do squat but the bathroom smells good!?! Let's find the 75.4ft snake
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    Weird clip Found between cylinder head and block

    Heads are getting resurfaced and I will get them rechecked. My guy mentioned the same thing. He's backed up 3 weeks. In other entertaining news: drain Rocket is not good at unclogging this sink drain.
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    Weird clip Found between cylinder head and block

    I ordered new chromoly push rods and camshaft. And your right why go this far and do a half ass job
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    Fuel rail end broke off in quick connect

    I bought a few cool tools. One was a lifter remover on Amazon. Absolutely easy tool to use and I got the lifters our super easy peasey. Straight out and no damage to the lifter walls. Just wanted to mention this in case you guys have to do it. I never used one for lifters before. Mad at myself...
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