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Big screw up, read the torque spec being 28N•m but it was actually 17N•m for the “special” bolt!
need to make a trip to a junkyard now to pull a driver side cylinder head and pray its good enough to swap over my stuff, worst friday ive had in a long time.
will have to wait until monday since i will be away this weekend.
One week update:
Been driving the car for a week and only thing i noticed that was bad was an oil leak from the oil pan, CEL for lean on bank 1(exhaust leak). Other than that, the car runs fine.
new oil pan came in, just waiting for the weekend to let the car sit with the new pan installed with a rtv gasket before refilling it with new oil.
the exhaust leak is from the exhaust manifold that came with the car. I noticed that the current manifold on it was missing a output hole that covers the small port towards the back of the cylinder head. So i assume the people who worked on the truck bought the wrong manifold and just slapped it on. I got a new to me manifold that should fix it and will also swap that out this weekend. Been babying it until after 3500 miles/next real official oil change.
this weekends project will also include replacing all the air vent doors with upgraded metal ones.