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Car has been sold. Thanks.

RockL, I do still have the car. I wouldn't think it'd be cost-effective to ship to you given the distance involved but I'm happy to facilitate things on my end if you have a way. I've been looking for donor cars down here and I think I have mine priced at above market so I'm lowering the price...

Bought this one new in January of 2000, 205K miles, synthetic oil with 5K changes. I’ve never had to add oil between changes. Engine and transmission perform as new. I was planning to drive to 300K. Car is located south of Kansas City. Have experienced all the usual suspects: secondary...

Back on the Road Just by way of status for those attempting this job, we had a warm enough day this past Saturday to button things back up and, I'm both happy and relieved to report, it fired up immediately and ran perfectly. The left side (driver's side) truly is a pain, just no room to...

Tensioners Installed By way of update, I did get the new tensioners installed yesterday using the cam removal method. A few minor points of interest for those contemplating this job: 1) Though they did not fail, the tensioners were both cracked, not visible until removal. Of course I don't...

The tensioners look to be in perfect condition and I know them to be original. I am going to replace them while it's apart since it's such a pain to get access, at least on the driver's side. (Make sure you have a swivel in your socket set and several different extensions.) Given how it...

Simple Tool to Clean Spark Plug Wells Just some pics to show the simple tool I made to clean the oil out of my spark plug wells. It's just 1/2" PVC pipe, cut to about 6", and hooked to a shop vac.

PVC Pipe to the Rescure Perfect. That is very helpful LS4me. Thank you. Several of my spark plug access cylinders (is that what they're called? The hole where you access the spark plugs.) were half full of oil and had to be cleaned before removing the plugs or when I changed the spark...

Thanks BigRigLS: I've owned this rig since new, January of 2000, and have been lurking here for a very long time, I just haven't often needed to ask too many new questions with all of the info cataloged in the archives. Still, I'm aware of the gen 1 and gen II distinction (wish I would have...

Excellent link LS4me. Thanks.

Okay Thanks Joe, I'll give it a go and see how it goes. Though I'm sure it's documented somewhere I have been unable to find the torque values for the valve covers and for the camshaft bolts since I'll be needing to remove them to swap tensioners. Can anyone help me with those numbers...

I cold started up my 2000 LS V8 with 170K and it ran like the timing chain had skipped a link, which means barely, almost no power. After researching here, I thought I had a secondary tensioner problem but when I took off the valve covers, the flats lined up perfectly on both sides and...