is there a way to separate the head from the block with out removing too much stuff?

 

It depends on your definition of "too much stuff". While pulling a head isn't terribly difficult, it's not a 15 minute job.

 

what's your point? explain what you don't want to remove. to remove the head you will need to remove all the vaccum lines, valve cover, timing belt, power steering pump bracket, intake manifold and acouple of other little things.

 

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Actually, unless you need it removed for some reason, I feel leaving the IM on is easier.

 

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Actually, unless you need it removed for some reason, I feel leaving the IM on is easier. </TD></TR></TABLE>

i would to depending on what i was going to be doing with the head. he never said what he would be doing..

 

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True, but he did say that he didn't want to remove "too much stuff".

 

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True, but he did say that he didn't want to remove "too much stuff". </TD></TR></TABLE>

You have to drain coolant and oil as well.

 

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You have to drain coolant and oil as well. </TD></TR></TABLE>

You don't have to drain the oil. It goes down to the oil pan. You only have to drain a little coolant.

 

yes that is correct, i'm still wondering what he wants to do

 

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Now that you mention it, I am too.

 

I'm replacing all the gaket on the head gasket

 

You dont have to remove the timing belt, you can (ghetto alert) just undo the bolts holding the cams in and tilt them off to one side.

 

i would drain some coolant out(save it to re-use if its still good)then unbolt the intake manifold but just push it out of the way(that way you dont have to remove the fuel lines)then ya i dont know about the removing the cam way,but you will probably have to remove the timing belt..then disconnect the bottom part of the headers(just under the 2 o2 sensors if you have the factory headers)..let me know if you peeps think this technique will work ok?

 

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feel free to smack yourself at anytime during this thread

 

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HOW?

 

lol...thats what i was thinking..

 

try it

Its not removing the timing belt since its still wrapped around the crank at the bottom of the block.
I suppose if you wanted to be really daft, you could just undo the bolts holding the cam gears on and then ......

 

i guess thats possible..are you really in england?

 

excuse my ignorance, but what does DAFT mean?

 

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Stupid thing to do.

As in: putting his nuts in the blender was a daft thing to do.

Yeah, Im really in England, with a nice Celestial Blue CRX VTEC with a b20VTEC swap

 

coolness..how is england?

 

Cold, wet, expensive, everything you'd expect

 

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i have been to Portsmouth and London....very good time

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by nominous &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">try it

Its not removing the timing belt since its still wrapped around the crank at the bottom of the block.
I suppose if you wanted to be really daft, you could just undo the bolts holding the cam gears on and then ...... </TD></TR></TABLE>

That's what I did...just taped the cam gears to the timing belt to hold them in place and unbolted them from the cams. It just seemed logical when I was doing it...