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Consider welding in a bung above the oil drain plug to put an oil temp sensor in later. Easy to plug it if you never need it. PITA to add one with the engine installed. Drilling into a “live” oil pan has never given me a warm fuzzy even though many have done it.
Consider welding in a bung above the oil drain plug to put an oil temp sensor in later. Easy to plug it if you never need it. PITA to add one with the engine installed. Drilling into a “live” oil pan has never given me a warm fuzzy even though many have done it.
MazdaComp motor mounts, plug and/or weld cursed water plug. If you doing a reroute, just remove the front water neck entirely and use a blockoff plate. More room for future activities.
Good idea, ordered the Mazdacomp mounts, I even noticed the stock mounts were busted when I pulled it out, then promptly forgot, lol.
Motor is here, but my mounts won't be in until next week. I guess that gives me this weekend to mount the clutch, replace a shitload of gaskets and drill the hole for turbo return.
As the engine bay is empty , clean hell out of it ! Touch up and repaint as necessary.
Yeah that's the plan for this weekend while I'm waiting for motor mounts. Lots of gaskets, seals, turbo drain, timing belt and water pump, and clean the engine bay.
Don’t use a barb fitting for your oil drain. Use a -AN fitting and get good quality braided line.
Yeah now that I've fucked it up, I'm just going to take it and have an AN fitting welded on. Might as well do it right since the quick and dirty way failed.
Yep that is the way to do it. What I generally recommend though is welding in a bung on the pan, then screwing in a fitting. This way if those threads ever get messed up you can swap fitting easier.