Im doing a DOD delete on my best friends 2014 Caprice police with the aluminum 6.0 When I was torquing down the headbolts, 1 bolt on each side (both were #10 in torque sequence) stripped the threads out of the block. Im drilling them & inserting the repair inserts now. What a pain in the ass... The engine is still in the car. I'm wondering now if i should have pulled it out? It definitely looks like this has been apart from a previous owner. It nay have b6ehat ever police department it was in before? Not sure.
So I was going to Leah mine in and do all this inside but for the extra time it took to take it out it was so much easier cleaning everything and having all the room in the world. I also go to try out my new engine stand. It has the crank to rotate the engine over. It was so nice. Got it from harbor freight for $225 on Black Friday sale. Is your friends 6.0 block aluminum or case. Heads bolts don’t normally strip out unless someone was in there and didn’t do something right.
If I had the motor complete apart I would have. The orings probably would have been fine but the plugs are just a second line of defense. The cover is going to keep them from falling out if they ever came loose.
Yeah. I noticed it starting to get loader. I also figured I was replacing the came so I wasn’t worried about it bearing the cam up. I was deleting the vvt with the dod. Everything got a good cleaning before I put it back together.
