Fuel rail is off, Injectors are out, and are Oregon Bound

Dammit, Matt. I really wish you'd have had a machinist do that TB. I don't suggest anyone ever take a dremel to one. I don't like being critical in this case, but a good machinist would have only charged you about 40 bucks.

Things are progressing Matt.
Your engine is probably looking about the same as mine now.

Have you torn of that SC yet :?:

You might as well freshen up those gaskets. :P

all new gaskets on the way...
Bill..that throttle shaft...any material removed should help even just a tiny bit i would think right? I cant see it ill affecting performance?

Supercharger came off today, i have it here at home now.
Waiting.

Matt, I'll have more pics of Gen3 work up by the end of the weekend.

Went in tonight and removed the LIM
Man, the gaskets, were the coolant ports are, were damaged, literally rotting away it looked like. 87,450 miles on these





Damage



The worst of the sludgey ****

The LIM awating the Storm Vulcan parts washer at work

If I can suggest a couple things...

Pull the brake booster hose off the vacuum port plastic to make it easier to bolt that port back on and watch the o ring to ensure proper sealing.

When pulling the alternator.. leave the Evap stuff on the bracket from alternator to supercharger and remove it as a single piece.

By taking the larger pieces off w/o unbolting smaller things from parts you are already removing... you will save a bunch of time and extra gaskets/effort.

Matt...I've got a spare 97 TB on the shelf if you are interested.

Be sure to remove teh ECT sensor before hot tanking it, or your buying a new one

Yeah, i removed all the bolts and the sensor from it last night before leaving.
All that stuff will move out of my way easily enough when I go to do rockers, shouldnt be to bad at all.
After this, im going to have the cooling system flushed by a good local shop and have it swapped to the normal green stuff..there is some nasty **** in my coolant that I would like to have removed haha