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Apr 22, 2013 | 10:03 PM

rjblazer

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I picked up a used 5.7 vortec out of a 00 chevy van. Has 85000 miles on it. I am going to rebuild it. I will post pics as soon as i can.

Apr 24, 2013 | 09:15 PM

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Engine with the accesories removed.

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Apr 24, 2013 | 09:16 PM

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The begining of the tear down.

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Apr 24, 2013 | 09:18 PM

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Intake gaskets where starting to break down.

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Apr 25, 2013 | 04:43 AM

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If you haven't thrown it away, lemme get that injector harness on top of the spider.

Apr 25, 2013 | 06:53 AM

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engine looks very clean, i spent about 3-4 hours cleaning the valley and intake manifolds when i did the intake gaskets on mine. looks about like yours after all the cleaning.

Apr 25, 2013 | 07:49 AM

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Intake gaskets where starting to break down.

Another confirmation, intake gaskets on many 1995-2005 GMs start to break down at 70k+ miles. LIM gaskets should probably be a mandatory preventive maintenance service prior to 100k miles.

Apr 25, 2013 | 09:52 AM

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engine looks very clean, i spent about 3-4 hours cleaning the valley and intake manifolds when i did the intake gaskets on mine. looks about like yours after all the cleaning.

Really? I was gonna say that engine looks like it was rode hard and put up wet.

It looks more like 150k, and not 85k on it. Holy cow!

Apr 25, 2013 | 04:31 PM

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mine had 160 on it when i took the manifolds off and the crud was probably a half inch thick everywhere in there. i had to take a screwdriver and shop vac and chip off most of it.