rpalmer

Hello. I just ran my wagon for the first time in a month or so this afternoon. I got the EA-82 engine rebuilt and installed it myself. The last step in the manual is to re-torque the bolts on the cylinder head after letting it run for a while. Sounds good in theory, but those little devils are really hard to get to. Seems to me like I'd be taking off the valve covers and the cam shaft and all the doodads associated with the cams and valves to get to them. Sounds like a few steps backwards, and a few more hours of work. Any suggestions? I've been working pretty much round the clock on this thing for a couple days now, and I still need to drive the thing out to Utah by Tuesday. Getting kind of frazzled. Thanks

I have an '85 GL dual-range 4wd carbed wagon and will be driving from Kansas to Salt Lake City here in a week or so. I'll be on my way back to school, so I'll have the thing pretty well loaded with supplies, my tools, a couple plants, bikes, etc. In looking through various repair manuals, I've seen diagrams of the belts and pulleys that show a belt-driven fan mounted to the engine, but only on the 4wd models. Mine doesn't have one, although it does have the electric fan on the radiator. The engine was replaced before I got it, so if the fan ever was there, it might just not have made it on to the new engine. Basically, my question is, as I will be doing a lot of mountain climbing in a heavily-laden 20-year old Soob, should I look into installing another electric fan in the thing? And should it be on all the time or connected to the same thermostatic switch as the existing one? Or by a switch on the dashboard? I should also mention that I'm rebuilding the engine as we speak, and that when I was driving it before the engine went to pot, it would run a bit warm in the mountains. It never had a problem here on the Great Plains. Thanks Ray