This topic lands right up my alley. I should have checked in sooner to help.
It sucks that you lost coolant and overheated. Like FixKick wrote, one time
my heater hose broke and I just cut off the bad part and looped it using
a socket wrench socket and the hose clamps that connected the hoses to
the heater core.
I also got one of those new heads and no cam gear and had the hardest time to
figure out what to do. Finally found out that the distributor drive gear was
press on. After some discussion here, and not knowing how pressed on it was,
I took the cam to a head shop to have the cam gear exchanged by means of a
hydraulic press. I did mark where the cam gear should be indexed, but the guy
in the shop said that there is a nub cast in the cam blank for indexing.
Sorry your old cam got chewed up. I gave both of my cams to the shop guy
wrapped with cardboard and tape with just the distributor drive gear end
exposed. Anyone find a source for G16b distributor drive gears? I would
like to have my old head rebuilt. I was sent bad head bolts too, If I remember
correctly the DNJ ones were good ones, but the DNJ head gasket Kit had the wrong
O ring for the distributor mount, had to re use the old O ring.
Years ago, I thought that I needed to drive around with tools to fix the car. Now
I am thinking that I need a Harbor Freight Hydraulic press too.
It sucks that you lost coolant and overheated. Like FixKick wrote, one time
my heater hose broke and I just cut off the bad part and looped it using
a socket wrench socket and the hose clamps that connected the hoses to
the heater core.
I also got one of those new heads and no cam gear and had the hardest time to
figure out what to do. Finally found out that the distributor drive gear was
press on. After some discussion here, and not knowing how pressed on it was,
I took the cam to a head shop to have the cam gear exchanged by means of a
hydraulic press. I did mark where the cam gear should be indexed, but the guy
in the shop said that there is a nub cast in the cam blank for indexing.
Sorry your old cam got chewed up. I gave both of my cams to the shop guy
wrapped with cardboard and tape with just the distributor drive gear end
exposed. Anyone find a source for G16b distributor drive gears? I would
like to have my old head rebuilt. I was sent bad head bolts too, If I remember
correctly the DNJ ones were good ones, but the DNJ head gasket Kit had the wrong
O ring for the distributor mount, had to re use the old O ring.
Years ago, I thought that I needed to drive around with tools to fix the car. Now
I am thinking that I need a Harbor Freight Hydraulic press too.