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[The Red Baron]

undoing the head bolts

nah, 2 foot breaker bar seems to do the job tbh.

[Rods2]

ETCG preaches preventative maintenance. it's a good idea as thats obviously a huge job.

whats the hardest part of a HG job in your opinions?

Biggest problem I had was a rounded nut on the nearside exhaust manifold to exhaust pipe, It was a pig grinding the nut away on one side before I manged to loosen it.  There was no room, so ended up using a small modeling drill with a flexible shaft to which was tapped a piece of bamboo cane, so I could reach the bolt. Swear box filled and emptied several times before it was sorted.

Crank auxiliary belt sprocket, was well rusted on and took a fair bit of shifting. I used a couple of G-clamps and some wood, where I don't have a puller, along with some help from 'Micky mallet'. Micky mallet was also a big help with removing the water pump, On re-assembly I put a very thin smear of copper ease on both of these.

Everything else is just awkward, by far the worst car I've worked on in this respect. Bolting the cooling pipe onto the back of the offside head, certainly filled the swear box up, along with the bastard bolt. Putting the nearside engine cable run box back on with the cables run correctly requires patience and a few more coins in the swear box. Bolting the earth cables back onto the coil pack base was another swear box filler. 

To sum up: Everything gets in the way of everything else!   

[RobseyMV6]

I feel for you, just droped my rebuild 3.0 back in this evening, skim/heads cleaned and all 24 V reset with seals, can't say i want to start over again 

I picked up all gaskets from motor factor with bolts £151 Must say the head gasket red line on outter covers much more then the vauxhall one and better!!

Just want it finished now but will be running shortly now again.

Good luck 

[The Red Baron]

cheers rob. 

[RobseyMV6]

cheers rob. 

tips from me would be don't pull the V spring down to much just enough to pull the collits on or you will damage you V stem seals also head bolts nm them then mark with tip ex all pointing back of engine then you know for sure your 90 90 90 15

Better you already knew that though 

[The Red Baron]

cheers rob. 

tips from me would be don't pull the V spring down to much just enough to pull the collits on or you will damage you V stem seals also head bolts nm them then mark with tip ex all pointing back of engine then you know for sure your 90 90 90 15

Better you already knew that though 

forgot about that trick, & there was me going to buy a proper gauge, as thats the only tool i havent got.
cheers.

[The Red Baron]

cheers rob. 

tips from me would be don't pull the V spring down to much just enough to pull the collits on or you will damage you V stem seals also head bolts nm them then mark with tip ex all pointing back of engine then you know for sure your 90 90 90 15

Better you already knew that though 

forgot about that trick, & there was me going to buy a proper gauge, as thats the only tool i havent got.
cheers.

to be honest its been 20 years since i did any big work on engines, a little rusty now maybe.

[RobseyMV6]

cheers rob. 

tips from me would be don't pull the V spring down to much just enough to pull the collits on or you will damage you V stem seals also head bolts nm them then mark with tip ex all pointing back of engine then you know for sure your 90 90 90 15

Better you already knew that though 

forgot about that trick, & there was me going to buy a proper gauge, as thats the only tool i havent got.
cheers.

Never worked for me, can use to but good to white mark just in case you forget what one you have done and haven't.... 

easy done

[The Red Baron]

cheers rob. 

tips from me would be don't pull the V spring down to much just enough to pull the collits on or you will damage you V stem seals also head bolts nm them then mark with tip ex all pointing back of engine then you know for sure your 90 90 90 15

Better you already knew that though 

forgot about that trick, & there was me going to buy a proper gauge, as thats the only tool i havent got.
cheers.

Never worked for me, can use to but good to white mark just in case you forget what one you have done and haven't.... 

easy done

will do, taking my time with it anyway tbh.

[Rods2]

I must admit I bought a gauge as only a few pounds. Don't forget the cam sprockets use stretch bolts and these should be replaced.

[Webby the Bear]

is it wise do you think to literally change everything on a HG replacement bearing in mind it sounds like the whole engine is stripped to the bare bones?

im talking cambelt, water pump, stat etc etc obviously within monetary reasonability

[Elite Pete]

is it wise do you think to literally change everything on a HG replacement bearing in mind it sounds like the whole engine is stripped to the bare bones?

im talking cambelt, water pump, stat etc etc obviously within monetary reasonability

It all depends when they were last done and how many miles you do a year I suppose

[Webby the Bear]

cheers pete.

so does the timing belt and timing cogs all have to come off i take it?

[Elite Pete]

cheers pete.

so does the timing belt and timing cogs all have to come off i take it?

Yep

[Webby the Bear]

cheers pete.

so does the timing belt and timing cogs all have to come off i take it?

Yep

in that case then i may consider practising the hg job... and then do the timing belt. time saver.