Day 13
June 13, 2007
Well its been a while since I last updated, I was waiting on some parts. Got the HKS Hi-Power exhaust in a while ago. Man, this thing is HUGE! It looks like diesel truck exhaust, and that shiny muffler is going to be police bait for sure, so I ordered a muffler silencer to put in it.
Also, today the Greddy oil pan came in, dang this thing is beefy! Here are the two trap doors, they are different sizes because on side of the oil pan is higher then the other, because the SR engine sits in the engine bay at an angle. These trap doors help to keep the oil from sloshing around and keep it in the center, around the all important pickup.
Since the pan came unassembled the first thing I had to was secure the trap doors to the pan. I used this locktite, it says its oil tolerant, probably overkill since there is also lock washers, but i don’t want those little screws coming loose.
I tightened them down good and snug with a phillips screw driver, I dont know if they had torque values, I cant read Japanese.
Next, I used some liquid teflon tape to seal up the plug for the oil temperature sensor hole since I don’t have one yet.
Then I threaded it in until it was about flush with the outside of the oil pan.
Next, I finally cracked open the tube of OEM liquid gasket that came with the gasket kit from Nissan.
And added a ring to the oil pan, making sure it was thick enough all the way around.
Then I let it sit for about two and a half minutes and then put it on the engine.
Then, I flipped the engine over and admired how beefy that honkin’ oil pan looks, and incase anyone didn’t know what motor this is, it says SR20 on the front.
Next, I added some anti-seize to the o2 sensor and torqued it down with one of our fancy o2 sensor sockets.
Next I had to do what’s been breaking my heart for a while now, re-bleed the lifters. I did them once, but because I flipped the motor over to put on the oil pan and some other things, they had to be re-bled, good thing I did too, they had a lot of air in them. So to do it, I first loosed the cam caps, then took the rockers off the lifters.
The I picked it up with my fingers and wiggled it out of the little hole and dropped it into a dixie cup filled with motor oil, then stuck a 1/16th inch welding rod and bled the little buggers of air.
By taking out the timing chain tensioner and turning the cams a little bit back and forth I finally got them all out, re-bled and put back in, without losing a single shim. Then I tightened all of the cam caps back up to spec, I better not forget and flip this motor over again.