Need a new motor!!! Any opinions??

[cmcarr85]

Lets see pictures......

 

[blizz]

woah woah woah....a crate 350 w/290 would have run you 1900 or so. less if you knew someone who worked at a shop. my brother picked one up for his k5 for 1200. oh well. good luck and hope it all turns out well.

 

[AtomicHoe094]

from hwere?

 

[99Yuk]

woah woah woah....a crate 350 w/290 would have run you 1900 or so. less if you knew someone who worked at a shop. my brother picked one up for his k5 for 1200.

Damn. I paid $3500+tax installed and I thought I got a deal. With the Loonie at almost par you'd think that there wouldn't be such a price gouging.. sigh...

---------- Post added at 09:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:04 PM ----------

I ordered my reman'd 350 yesturday... should be here Tues or Wed!

My wife's, friends father is gonna help me remove & replace the old & new motors... We are gonna pull the old motor tomorrow, should only take a few hours!!!

Hey man, I wish you good luck with that. Hope it works well out for you.
The good news is that you'll have a new intake gasket and won't have to worry about this problem again probably for the life of the truck.

Hehe, I was going to remind you to check the new block for a block heater, but I'm thinking that in Miami, you might not need it....

 

[Miami-Yukon]

Heater in Miami!! Haha!! More like A/C in Miami... If we are lucky we get low 70's..... Or a cool spell like we had this weekend where it got down into the 50's at night!! And that's winter weather!

Should have the motor out tomorrow, most of it's already done, just need to unhook the tranny and bracket for the power steering pump....

Pics coming soon!!!!

 

[Miami-Yukon]

MOTOR IS OUT!!!!

PICS ARE HERE!!!

Needless to say there was water in the motor... BLOWN head gasket!!!! God knows when it blew... but there was plenty of water in the engine!!!!

Here are some of the pics I took during the removal of the old engine...


THE START...




Parts start coming off !!!



The collection starts....



Flywheel cover coming off & transmission bolts too!!!







Exhaust manifolds off!



Access to the last two tranny bolts !!! Now I know why they charge soo much !!!!



Wire harness disconnected ......



Almost ready to come out.....



Here it comes ......





WA..LA !!!! One 96 Yukon 350 OUT !!!!



Decomission starts!!!



Check out the water under the valve covers!!!!



And under the intake manifold..... WOW!!!!!!
AND THE REAR WATER JACKETS .....calcified closed!!!!!!!!



Pulling the head bolts ... Just to see more & look at the water POOR out !!!!



Drivers side head .... Water in #7 (drivers side rear cylinder) ......





We didn't pull the oil pan due to started running out of day light... But came to the conclusion of a blown head gasket & something in the bottom end siezed up!!!! No bent rods or nothing seen in the top end, but then again the heads are still filthy....


IT TOOK 2 DAYS BUT ONLY ABOUT A TOTAL OF 6 HOURS TO GET IT OUT WITH 2 PEOPLE (that is between the Dolphin game on Sunday & a late start Monday) ....
Me doing most of the manual labor & my wife's, friend's father helping a little, but mostly with knowledge (he is after all like 62) ......


MORE PICS TO COME ON NEW MOTOR AND INSTALL......

Let me know what you guys think....

 

[99Yuk]

That's alot of water!
Wow.

BTW, just a side note. When I bought my new motor, they wouldn't put orange coolant back in, they insisted on green coolant.

They said that orange over time builds up junk and may completely block the water jackets. My old block had partial blockage. I didn't believe them about complete blockage until I saw that pic! That pic should be a poster child pic for switching over to green coolant!!!
Not that I know anything, just what the mech told me....
Possibly consider putting green back into your new motor?


Cool that you mostly did it yourself! I wouldn't have the balls to do something like that...



Look at how clean yours is under the intake! Mine was jam packed full of black congealed mass of gunk, you could take a screw driver and pick/scrape at it. Yours looks positively shiney!

 

[Miami-Yukon]

That's alot of water!
Wow.

BTW, just a side note. When I bought my new motor, they wouldn't put orange coolant back in, they insisted on green coolant.

They said that orange over time builds up junk and may completely block the water jackets. My old block had partial blockage. I didn't believe them about complete blockage until I saw that pic! That pic should be a poster child pic for switching over to green coolant!!!
Not that I know anything, just what the mech told me....
Possibly consider putting green back into your new motor?


Cool that you mostly did it yourself! I wouldn't have the balls to do something like that...



Look at how clean yours is under the intake! Mine was jam packed full of black congealed mass of gunk, you could take a screw driver and pick/scrape at it. Yours looks positively shiney!

There is alot of black jook in the motor ....... Don't know how much you had, but there was stuff in mine.... all the pistons were covered in it....

And I'm gonna check with a buddy of mine that works with GM and see what he thinks, because I was thinking of weither to put the standard green antifreeze or Dex-Cool, which is the supposed 100K mile fluid that this motor had.... GM came out with it in like 94-95.....

Motor should be here today hopefully, if not definitely tomorrow!!!!!

Can't wait to get it in!


Oh & thanks, really wasn't that hard, I'm just glad that I had someone who was a mechanic that knew what to disconnect to take it out, the physical labor wasn't that bad, just some bolts that were in ackward places to get too......

 

[Miami-Yukon]

Motor is here!!! PICS!!!

NEW MOTOR IS HERE!!!!!

Here is a pic of the new motor still wrapped in plastic....

Think i'm gonna paint the block CHEVY ORANGE....

What do you guys think ???

PICS BELOW!!!!



The instructions & gasket box!



OH .... and the BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!! For my newborn...




Can't wait to get it in and running!!!

 

[blackcoffee]

AMERICA!

Hang the Birth Certificate in the Garage!