It's Sunday today, so today i went doing something. except for eating roosted pumpkin seeds. Which my lovely wife baked.

As for starters i went and took out the intake manifold and all the problems to get it out.

Only to find a lot of carbon in the cylinder head.
Well it has bin running for 250.000 kilometers so i think this might aswell be normal .










Now for sure i found some other problems aswell.
I regards to get the intake out i took one of the fans out so i could access some bolts a little better.
Then i came across these.

above the transmission cooler line has a dent in it , i know it's hard to see. Because of all the dirt and oil. but it just above the glare on the screwdriver. when i squeeze there is stuff coming out.  

It also showed me that the radiator needs replacement.

So i went investigating further and found a cast number. on the engine block.

To me it says
2 ø 9 ø 95
So it a 95 engine block.

I did not find the engine number anywhere yet. and neither i am sure if Chrysler can send me details of the cars numbers to match then all up.

For me well worth saving unless it wrecked all the way. In what i am really curious to. because i didn't like what i was seeing through the spark plug holes. I couldn't really get a pictures of that but maybe i'm mistaken . I wished i bought the Endoscope for €80,- at the Lidl a few months back.

I took the ecu out of it and as much of the wire harness, so when i get the engine hoist and stand it wont be a day of work and trying to figure everything out.

Instead it will take a few hours ore so to get the engine out.


For the question "Why didn't you take out the radiator ?"

Well it's need to be drained first .
Then its open to the air and because the engine block is cast iron it will rust.
Now i don't know exactly when i have a engine stand and hoist.
But i'm sure i don't want the cooling ports to rust out on me in a few months time.

So this is it for today
I am making a list on what needs to be replaced when i come across it.

My Chilton book helps me locating connectors and bolts when something is still attached to something.

I also disconnected the Air conditioning hosing, as i expected they were leaking.

So i unscrewed one and heard nothing and then unscrewed the second and heard a psssssssssssssssss. for a few seconds. so i guess i was right on the money. There wasn't much in it anymore. As this worked i unscrewed the one at the firewall aswell.

Well thats it for today, I could have done much more. But i do not intend to do much untill i have a hoist and a stand.


Greets


JD