Okay, friends, to get started on our passenger side valve cover, you're gonna notice that
more than likely you're gonna have debris on top of the engine.
Let's go ahead and spray that off with some compressed air.
Now that we have that blown off, let's continue on by removing our ignition coils.
You're gonna have four of them on the passenger side.
I'm just gonna go ahead and grab onto the wiring.
There's a little tab where my index finger is gonna be, squeeze on that, lift this up.
Always check every electrical connector for any funny colors.
This one looks great, so we'll set it aside.
Next, we're gonna remove our ignition coil mounting bolts
and remove the coil.
Give it a little twist.
With the ignition coil out, just make sure you inspect the boot.
If it seems as though it's damaged or firm in any way, go ahead and replace the boot
with the internal spring as well.
Now let's just do the same to the rest.
All right, now, with this out of here, let's go ahead and put it in a spot where we can
remember which cylinder it was in, that way there, when we reinstall them, they'll go
back into the original cylinder.
Next, we're gonna remove the vapor line from the valve cover.
But before we do that, follow it up to the intake area.
We'll grab this tab, give it a little pull, pull it right off of there.
Now let's remove this lower one, push on the little tab, give it a little twist, draw it
right up and out of there.
We're gonna set this aside.
Remember that the side with the sticker on it was the lower aspect.
Now let's go ahead and get this off of the valve cover.
Next, let's go ahead and disconnect our fuel injectors.
There we are.
Let's go ahead and grab onto this wiring.
I'm just gonna separate these two pieces here.
We'll give this a little flip.
Looking at it from this side, you can see there's an area that you can get under with
your screwdriver, lift up right there, and separate these two wires.
Now we need to unsecure the wiring from the valve cover.
You're gonna notice there's one up front here and give that a little tug.
It just kind of presses in there.
And then as you move down along the valve cover moving the wires around, you'll probably
be able to feel some more.
Go ahead and disconnect all of them.
Let's remove our oil cap.
And then we're gonna remove our eight mounting bolts for our valve cover.
That's one.
Do the same to all the rest.
Now that we did the top four bolts, let's go ahead and get those bottom four.
Now that we have all of those mounting bolts loose, let's take this wiring, bring it right
up and over this.
Now with a rubber mallet, let's give this a couple loving bonks and try to break it
free.
Let's continue on by relieving more of these mounting areas here.
We wanna dis-attach these two wiring harnesses from each other.
That's gonna give us some extra slack.
And then if you follow this back along the back, you're gonna find another area where
it's on to the bracket.
Let's go ahead and get it off of there as well.
That way there we can move this wiring out of the way.
Let's get our air intake system out of the way here.
You're gonna find that there's a clamp on this side.
Loosen that.
Loosen this clamp.
Set this aside.
Now we're just gonna wiggle this around so we can weasel it out of here.
There it is, friends.
Now to get this off, we have to go ahead and pull on this outer tab.
Once you have the outside tab lifted, we're gonna come from the inside with a nice pick,
and you're gonna find that there's another tab.
Lift up on that tab and then you should be able to spin this.
There we are.
Let's take this right out.
There it is.
All right, before we can go ahead and install this into our brand new valve cover, we wanna
make sure we clean up this gasket if not replace it.
Go ahead and wipe it down and then you wanna make sure that you thoroughly inspect it.
Make sure that it's not dry-rotted, and cracked in any way.
If it is, just go ahead and replace it.
Now that we have this cleaned down, let's just apply a little bit of engine oil around
the seal there.
We're gonna go ahead and get this started on here and we're gonna twist it until it
comes right along this lip.
There we are.
That's nice and locked in.
Make sure it's completely secured.
Now it's gonna be time to get our valve cover gasket on here.
Pay special attention to these areas that look like this.
There should be two of them on your gasket.
You wanna make sure that those line up with the areas on your valve cover.
Let's set this up in here.
Just kind of work its way all the way around.
Make sure everything lines up perfectly, these little knobs.
As you go around, just make sure that you press it all the way into the valve cover
as far as it can go, so there's no way that it can fall out.
And then we'll continue.
Perfect.
Before we install our valve cover, let's use a tiny bit of engine oil along the inside
of this seal right here.
Now it's where that VVT sensor is gonna go.
We wanna make sure that it's nice and lubricated.
Back over at the engine, we need to make sure we clean down the mating surface where the
gasket is gonna ride.
I like to tuck a nice rag inside here to try to collect as much of the debris as possible.
But mainly what we wanna do is just try to carefully scrape around this area here and
get off any of the debris or build-up that's on it.
There's gonna be two areas on each of your valve covers that you're gonna wanna pay special
attention to.
There's one area right here that's gonna have some black RTV or gasket maker on there.
We wanna make sure we get that off and then on the lower side in the same exact spot.
So right here, except right down over there.
We're gonna make sure we get those clean and clear.
We'll go ahead and scrape down the rest of it.
Just be careful not to mar up the metal on the actual engine.
Once it's clean, we'll continue on.
As we're scraping this, we wanna make sure that we scrape away from the inside portion
of the engine.
Let's try to keep out as much of this debris as possible.
So now that we have the area where the valve cover gasket's gonna ride nice and clean,
we wanna make sure that we coat this area and of course the area that was down there
that we cleaned as well with a little bit of RTV or gasket maker.
That's gonna help ensure that this little ridge right here is gonna be nice and sealed
for when we get the actual gasket on there as well.
Okay.
So now that we have the valve cover into this area, let's continue on with that RTV on our
two areas that I told you about.
Right here, put a nice coating, and then of course the bottom side as well.
All right, with both those spots nice and coated with RTV, let's carefully put our sensor
through our seal here, and then we'll set our valve cover down into its resting area.
Carefully starting all of your bolts, we're just gonna bottom them out and then we'll
torque them to manufacturer's specifications.
Now, as you go to start snugging these up, what you wanna do is you wanna make sure you
start from the center bolts, go up top, down bottom, and then work your way out towards
the front and towards the rear.
As you do this, go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Now let's torque these to 89 inch pounds.
All right, now it's gonna be time to get our ignition coils back in here.
I like to use a little bit of dielectric grease right on the boot here.
That's the area that's gonna go on to the spark plug.
Let's go ahead and start that into the engine here.
Push it down onto the spark plugs so it's completely down, start in your coil bolt,
and then we'll snug it up.
All right, once you have that bottomed out, torque it to 53 inch pounds.
There we are.
Let's continue on and install all the rest of our ignition coils.
All right, now that we have those ignition coils in and torqued, let's go ahead and secure
our wiring harness.
Go ahead and push all your tabs into the valve cover or the corresponding areas where they
need to be connected into to be secured.
I'm just gonna go right down the line here and do them all.
Let's get this white clip in here.
Perfect.
Okay.
All these look good.
All right, now at this point, let's start connecting in our wiring.
We had our little gray wire.
Let's connect that back in.
Listen for the click.
Of course, that goes back into here so it's nice and secure.
It can't dangle around.
Let's get this clip in here.
There we are.
Now it's gonna be time to connect in the rest of our connectors.
You're gonna notice you have grays and blacks.
The grays are gonna go to your fuel injectors and the blacks are gonna go to the actual
coils themselves.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and connect this in.
Listen for a click, give it a nice tug.
And do the same here for our fuel injector.
Listen for a click, nice little tug.
Do the same right down the line.
Okay.
So we have all of our connectors in.
Just give a quick double-check just to make sure everything's completely plugged in.
Once you're sure everything's in, let's continue on by reconnecting this vapor line here.
We remember the sticker was down in the downward position.
This is gonna come right under here like this.
You're gonna slide this down and on this.
It should click right in.
Give it a nice tug.
Right up top here, push on the tab.
There we are.
Now it's time to get our air intake back on here.
Slide it on there, slide it on this side.
You wanna make sure that it's completely bottomed out and straight as can be.
Snug up that clamp.
Do the same to this side.
Okay.
Nice and tight.
All right, now it's gonna be time to get the oil cap back on there.
But one thing I like to mention before we go ahead and do that is it's a good idea to
go ahead and do the oil change.
The reason why you'd wanna do an oil change is due to any of the debris that might have
fallen into the valve cover area in the engine.
By doing an oil change, it pretty much ensures that you're gonna get out the majority of
it.
Okay, friends, after you've gotten that oil change done, go ahead and start up the truck.
You wanna make sure that you don't have the check engine light on.
Assuming there's no check engine light, take it for a road test.