Camino LS6

Re-assembly should be complete tonight. Pics later tonight or tomorrow.

The only fuel line fittings I've seen on the Tahoe are the two at the throttle body, and they are just o-rings on metal - no plastic.

The problem seems to have gone away, the above post showed immediately.

I'm talking about the time it takes for the main forums page to show new posts on a given topic.

It's painfully slow, is that going to change or are we stuck with it?

Thanks, Samadei. The part does indeed have a tiny o-ring, and it is about 3/4" long overall, with a diameter of about 1/2". I thought about the "sticky" approach to getting it out (I have some butyl tape onhand).

I was doing boring, can't-show-it-in-a-pic stuff. Cleaning parts, and torquing bolts, and adjusting lifter pre-load.

Wow! Thanks guys! It almost makes all of the stress over this worthwhile. How about some more pics?

This piece of plastic just cost me 3 hours: So there I was, re-attaching everything at the rear of the engine, and everything is going well. At least as well as can be expected when you are under the hood and kneeling on the engine while trying to work. With all of the down-low-and-in-the-back stuff done, I moved on to the re-installing the distributer. After all of my hyper-caution about timing and all that affects it during this whole job, I'm about to verify that all is indeed good. Full stop. The distributer will not go down into the engine the final 1/4". WTF? So I second guess my self and pull the valve cover again and re-check TDC. Everything is fine. Again, WTF? I remove and re-lube the distributer and even try to fit it in in ANY position (it should slide in in two positions 180 degrees apart). It won't go in. So I pull it back out and set it aside, grab my penlight and shove my face up against the firewall so I can look down the distributer hole to see what's going on. Down there, in the black abyss, leaning against the oil pump rod, is the plastic bit pictured above. OK, that has to come out. But just how in the hell am I going to accomplish that? That thing is way down deep inside the newly-assembled engine. After trying to catch it with a long screwdriver, and failing, I devised a new method. I clipped off a piece of electric fence wire at about 2' in length and created a hook at the end. Then, with my face against the firewall, my knees on the engine, and my butt in the air, I grabbed the panlight with my left hand, and the wire with my right and somehow managed to snag the offending part. Holding my breath, I then carefully extracted it straight up and out of the engine. I could easily have fallen-off and into the lifter valley where it would be unreachable without pulling the intake all over again - but I got lucky. Whew! So then the mystery of what the hell this thing was, and what (if anything) it did as part of my engine, became my new concern. I sure didn't want to open the engine up again, but if this was a critical part I didn't know about, I wanted to get it to where it belonged. It didn't look like anything I'd ever seen inside a Chevy V8, but I needed to be sure. So I jumped into the wagon, and paid a visit to the local Chevy dealer. No one could positively identify that little, white,PITA. But both the mechanic and a group of parts guys agreed with me that it didn't belong anywhere near where I had found it. Good enough for me. What a bizarre sidetrack this has been for my project. I still don't know what the thing is (our collective best guess is a valve seal), but it seems it was just some automotive flotsam a careless mechanic allowed to drop into the engine at sometime in the past.

In all their glory!

I sure hope so.

Ocn: I somehow doubt it. 67: Sorry to hear about the Fuel pump hassle - been there. Here are some pics that actually look like an engine:

Heads are torqued, valvetrain is installed and adjusted, intake going back on soon. Pics later tonight or tomorrow. Oh, and the damn thing needs an exhaust!

Hope it's been a good day for you, Drew.

There it is.

It's even the color I want...

Found a pic, but can't seem to get the uploader to work.

:puke: It's those canted headlights that get Balthy's pulse racing...

I believe that there was a Canada-only Mercury pickup as well... Cool bits of trivia here.

Well, I really did like my Maserati Biturbo - will anyone negate that one?

Well, that's another hour I didn't spend working on the Tahoe... Pretty cool thing to see - thanks for posting it.

Now camino...I don't like to hear talk like that from you! This thing...at the price scrap is bringing...could have bought a new set of heads for the Tahoe if you had taken it with the title down to Ace Iron and Scrap or Columbus Car Crushing INC. In Ohio, we know what to DO with vehicles like this.... I'd almost pay to watch that crushing...

Audi has a nice, tidy, design theme going right now. Challenger is probably the best of the retro designs. Mini is perfectly what it is. Zo6 Vette is a great expression of essential Corvette styling. Suburban/Avalanche are also perfectly what they are. GMC Sierra tops all pickup design. And the Holdens, of course.

I have no idea how to answer this question. But I will say that there are more than a few cars on the above lists that i also like. I do have an out-of-character love for the '71 Riviera (especially in that "Firemist" sort of red metallic they used back then).

It's a '95, Samadei.