french crap fanatic
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french car specialist based in dagenham east london
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Post by french crap fanatic on Apr 21, 2016 21:44:32 GMT 1
I will get you the pictures of the head and cam pulleys soon @ FCF. Radiator out allowed heat shield off and after a bit of swearing the exh mani is off. Ran out of light again. FCF Whats the best approach for the inlet manifold, leave attached to head and remove with head or detach and try and move it back out of the way? pretty sure it was unbolted and taken off first out of the way,then manicat unbolted and head moved backwards to escape,i think there is a stud that makes exh removal impossible,so we take head off that way. if it isnt that way,then take inlet manifold off with head. peronnaly,i hate fluids dripping anywhere,esp petroli try to leave injectors connected,sometimes i remove a whole rail without disconnecting any of it.
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Post by studabear on Apr 23, 2016 19:29:18 GMT 1
Well got it stripped now, quick look suggests 14 bent valves lol.
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Post by wheelnut on Apr 23, 2016 20:11:30 GMT 1
... quick look suggests 14 bent valves lol... Good thing you stocked up on the Budweiser!
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Post by studabear on Apr 23, 2016 20:31:05 GMT 1
Thats the Wife's, I'm a San Miguel fan.
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Post by wheelnut on Apr 24, 2016 0:47:43 GMT 1
Wonderfull woman!
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Post by studabear on Apr 24, 2016 17:20:44 GMT 1
I've removed the inlet, removed the camshafts and stripped the head, all lifters boxed in the order they were removed so they all go back in the same place. Every valve is damaged, some worse than others. Water pump is removed to, appears ok but while its in bits it might aswell have a new one.
Will try and get the head to the engineers in the morning for a skim, get the headset and valves ordered later tonight from ebay. I'm gonna let the engineers grind the valves in.
Be great if I can get the head back by next Sat morning as its my long weekend off.
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Post by Noberator on Apr 24, 2016 17:51:48 GMT 1
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Post by studabear on Apr 30, 2016 21:09:42 GMT 1
Done, all day on it today, had murder getting the cambelt on, needed a extra pair of hands in the end. I didn't have the clip that holds the belt on the crank pulley.
With not doing many head jobs these days its easy to forget how long all the cleaning up of components takes, a compressor at home would have been a massive help to clean the oil and coolant out of the head bolt holes in the block, I had to use cotton buds lol (wife won't lol she has none left)
Big thanks to the man like FCF for a few pointers esp regarding bleeding the cooling system, that saved me a lot of messing.
In the end the parts cost pretty much £340 Including gates timing belt and water pump kit, gates aux belt, 16 new valves, coolant, oil and filter, head set and bolts, head skimmed and the valves ground in at the engineers.
Can get shut of it off the drive way tomorrow and hopefully get the Escort out for a run.
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