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Also, as mentioned: the salvage yard gave me the whole dang wiring harness with the DE. Figure it's worth a show.

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what year DE did engine come out of?

 

[blaze2051]

2016 QX60.

nice write up and amazing work yet scary to tackle something like that

 

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So- continuing update, mechanical, not electrical. As mentioned above, had worn spark plug tube seals. Nissan calls for a full valve cover replacement. This, however, would not be the Frankenfinder if I wasn't about to hodgepodge a solution (for now). This is apparently a common issue to the VQs, to the point that multiple people have come upon a solution- cut out the press fit blown gaskets, and replace them with a double stack of 2010 honda civic 2.0 tube seal gaskets, with a little RTV.

I'm in the process of that, but in the interim:

Have some pics from inside bank 1 of the Frankenfinder DE:

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So- continuing update, mechanical, not electrical. As mentioned above, had worn spark plug tube seals. Nissan calls for a full valve cover replacement. This, however, would not be the Frankenfinder if I wasn't about to hodgepodge a solution (for now). This is apparently a common issue to the VQs, to the point that multiple people have come upon a solution- cut out the press fit blown gaskets, and replace them with a double stack of 2010 honda civic 2.0 tube seal gaskets, with a little RTV.

I'm in the process of that, but in the interim:

Have some pics from inside bank 1 of the Frankenfinder DE:

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nice pictures, I currently own DD 17 PF, and i used my borescope to look inside via oil filler and it looked spotless, could not see any trace of sludge anywhere. I did use 5w-30 before but only for about 5k miles just to try it out but usually we use 0w-20 every 4-5k miles