Okay . . . What's The Trick To Getting This Thing Off? (Head Removal)

[it's paid for]

. . . okay . . . now, I'm really depressed . . . last night, I had a phone conversation with my friend - the ex-Honda mechanic (hasn't worked in a shop in over ten years) and he told me what a complete idiot I was to have removed the vacuum lines and that I'll have to put them all back together or I can forget EVER having a reliable idle again (plus other problems w/distributor & blah, blah, blah) . . .

. . . he also said I'd need to use a special tool to remove the crank pulley . . . something like a chain that wraps around the pulley and tightens up so you can then use another tool to undo the crank pulley bolt . . .

. . . if there was any possible way to get out of this mess I would . . . but I need a car really bad and I have no money . . . so . . . what other choice do I have but to continue to work on it . . .

. . . I feel like the guy who got stranded in the desert . . . 115 degree heat and no water . . . a car hasn't been by in hours and then one comes by and stops . . . the car has two occupants - both are retirement-age religious zealots who are intent on "saving" the guy . . . one of them is wearing a tan leisure suit and obviously haven't bathed in what smells like several months . . . the other has greasy hair and is wearing white socks with shiny black shoes, and has a pack of cigarettes rolled up in his tattered plaid sleeve . . . the driver pleads emphatically for the stranded motorist to hop in . . . it's 38 miles to the closest form of human life and the decision to join them doesn't come easy . . . lingering for an uncomfortable amount of time with uncertainty and contemplating the buzzards have been following for about an hour, the stranded motorist grudingly gets into the drastically faded red Ford Fairlane with the zealots . . . all the while wondering why things like this always seem to happen to him . . .

. . . sometimes, life just really sucks . . . I hate my car!!!

DIE CAR!!! DIE!!!

[Justin86]

I don't belive you answered this before nut what is the reson for you remove the head. I hope you just don't have to change the head gasket cause I could have told you how to do it within 2hrs.

[it's paid for]

. . . I hope you just don't have to change the head gasket cause . . .

No . . . the car needs a valve job and rings . . . I can only afford the valve job . . .

. . . thanks for the comments and suggestions . . .

IPF

[Justin86]

OK

[blown89lxi]

hey guys i have been reading about this project to get ready for my head gasket job. justin 86-please tell me how to do it in 2hrs. that would be awesome. any other advice would be great . BTW my car is 89 lxi coupe with auto and fuel injected if that matters.

[k-roy]

2 Hours? I could do it with the user Nota3g.

1. Remove the downpipe from the header.

2 Remove the lower bracket that hold the intake to the block

3. Disconnect all hoses and wires from the intake.

4. Take off the valve cover and timing chain cover

5. Remove timing belt

6. Remove head bolts

7. Pull the head off.

8. Clean it all up.

9. put in new gasket

10. Blot head back on

11. replace timing belt

13. Hook everything back up

14. There a a few small things I missed but they are small.

2 hours is a little ambitious, but it could be done with 2 people with the right tools.

[blown89lxi]

this will be the 1st work i do to my honda, but when i did the timing belt on my eclipse i had to remove all the pulleys and the crankshaft pulley as well as the ps pump, a mount and a lower t belt cover is the honda just like that? as far as tools i have basic tools, im on a budget what tools wold be especially helpful, and as far as the crank pulley i have the chain wrench that helps but i might just get the shop to break it for me. ideas? comments ?