Ok wanted to get some stuff done on Ice. I have a friend that just picked up a 1998 39K Trans Am WS6 Auto with long headers full exh and intake kit and tune. Car is torch RED and mint. He wanted a piece of Ice I had to ween him into being beaten by Mk8's. LOL He had to go against Ice before he could step to Red Dragon.
I stripped out car. Out came exh,tank,pumpkin DS and trans. On Thursday.
The exh all needed the blue wrench. I don't even bother to touch exh stuff with out torch because if you round something off you can be in for more of a fight. These 3 areas need to be taken apart to pull all exh down.
Middle one.
Drivers side front
Pass side front up high
Out comes tank and removed the pump. Always use a non sparking drift to remove ring. I still don't know where I got this screwdriver. I put dykem marks on all stuff so it drops right back in and no guessing.
To drop a Walbro 255 in you need to open up bottom here more round to fit the bigger end "nipple" of the 255 pump thru. The stock pump is much smaller in this area. The 255 pump plugs right in. Cut the new "S" hose into a "L" to connect pump to pump hat.
You need to cut 1/4 off bottom of the black rubber that goes around pump. This is done to let the white pump nipple stick out far enough to get sock strainer on. You also install the new rubber "washer" on end of pump that comes with pump. This keeps pump off metal bottom.
Sock is offset and needs to fit in baffle inside the tank so needs to be put on pump clocked correct to sit inside basket. You can see stock pump to right with the tiny inlet hole.
Did my cut pass side lower control arm bolt to pull pumkin. And pulled pumkin.
Pulling trans half the bolts came out like a B. The top one here was so hard whole way out it broke block. That was snafu #1.
Then I went to remove EGR tube and SNAP. The EGR tube snags an ear and trans and is a B to remove trans. So I wanted to get this out of way. But SNAP. You can see silver mark where trans ear strikes EGR tube. 2 inches up from nut.
Its 2 am and that set me off LOL Go up stairs find old broken EGR tube with good acordin part on it. Cut broken one off and cut right thru the internal restrictor. Opps. Now I had to copy restrictor and double step it and put it in same spot as it was and have it all welded in.
Here is it all welded back together and no codes after running her. YES!
Slipped in my spare pumkin with gears and posi Temp. Installed white 23 tooth speedo gear.Green is 17T stock and Black is 20T
Here is Speed sensor with stock green gear pulled from side of trans. White gear went on and back in.
Here are those NEW 20 dollar O2 sensors going in. Plug right in. They just have longer whips.
10 inch converter goes in and trans gets popped back in. Welded EGR tube clears. All bolt holes tapped clean all bolts ran die over them everything coated in "robot blood" (anti seize) Also dowels and converter snout.
1 piece DS goes in
All the stuff that went back in on Fri starting at 12 noon because I got call that everyone was going to track. I say F it I'm going. I got all this stuff back in from 12 till 6 hoped in shower and took out the 1998 TA. My 14.41 to his 14.7. We raced together first round I 1.999 60fted him and he freaked that I jumped out 4 cars and slammed loud pedal and spun and could not catch me. Could not beat my time all night and I had to fix his car next day. LOL. I will post vid when I get it.