Put in a full 13 hours at the shop today. I'm short a tech and hate getting behind, so the 8-5 nonsense got thrown out the window today.
First project: 2011 Jeep GC with the 5.7. The customer overheated it due to a leaking radiator and the head gasket popped. They elected to go with a reman unit, I'm not sure where we got it but it came out of Dallas. The shipping crate is beautiful, and the long block came with new MDS solenoids, a new VVT solenoid, a new Melling oil pump, and all the gaskets necessary for install. I'm also replacing the MDS harness, as the old one was frayed as many of them are. It's a $36 part, which is cheap insurance for something that's hidden under the intake manifold.
The engine itself slipped out without any issue, I pulled the radiator/condenser/trans cooler module and she slipped right out the front. I managed to get the old engine completely torn down, tomorrow I'll pull the new one out of the crate and start dressing it.
Second project of the day is a 2014 Honda CR-V with a clogged heater core. 85k miles. I have no idea why it clogged so early, but apparently it's so common that Honda has a TSB about it and shipped special flushing kits to dealerships. I don't have one of those fancy setups, but I CLR'd and power flushed the core 3 times and I couldn't get better than a 30 degree difference in temp from passenger to driver's side, and I could only get about 105 degrees from the driver's side regardless.
I have a new OEM core coming in the morning, I really wanted to get the thing apart so it would be ready to smash and grab when the parts came in. It was actually very easy, I had the dash out in about an hour and a half. Here's a few shots of that project:
First project: 2011 Jeep GC with the 5.7. The customer overheated it due to a leaking radiator and the head gasket popped. They elected to go with a reman unit, I'm not sure where we got it but it came out of Dallas. The shipping crate is beautiful, and the long block came with new MDS solenoids, a new VVT solenoid, a new Melling oil pump, and all the gaskets necessary for install. I'm also replacing the MDS harness, as the old one was frayed as many of them are. It's a $36 part, which is cheap insurance for something that's hidden under the intake manifold.
The engine itself slipped out without any issue, I pulled the radiator/condenser/trans cooler module and she slipped right out the front. I managed to get the old engine completely torn down, tomorrow I'll pull the new one out of the crate and start dressing it.
Second project of the day is a 2014 Honda CR-V with a clogged heater core. 85k miles. I have no idea why it clogged so early, but apparently it's so common that Honda has a TSB about it and shipped special flushing kits to dealerships. I don't have one of those fancy setups, but I CLR'd and power flushed the core 3 times and I couldn't get better than a 30 degree difference in temp from passenger to driver's side, and I could only get about 105 degrees from the driver's side regardless.
I have a new OEM core coming in the morning, I really wanted to get the thing apart so it would be ready to smash and grab when the parts came in. It was actually very easy, I had the dash out in about an hour and a half. Here's a few shots of that project: