Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
I still reckon you got a cover warped...
In fact, I have some spare heads so will pop some sealent on them in the correct positions tonight and take a pic....
Hi Chris,
I'm sorry to hear about your woes on this - I know what a pain it is to do once..
I'm not sure about your description of the goo locations at the front. I applied the stuff in the angle where the seal goes from horizontal to curving upwards to go over the camshaft bearings (4 spots on each side). You seem to be showing putting it at the outside corners of the cyclinder head - may not do any harm, although I'm not sure it does any good, but I think you do need to get it in the angles above
At the rear I put it all around the curved half moon and a bit to each side - pretty much as you show.
I think the principle is to get the areas where the seal goes through a sharp angle vertically and is therefore most likely to leak.
I'm open to correction of course!
Chris - time allowing I'm happy to help with this.
Cheers,
Ian
QuoteMy wife likes your carpet, where did you get it from and how much?
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Thats not the carpet......thats the matt by the front door......£1.99 from happy shopper probably!
QuoteQuoteYeah! On the ground, hadn't got 2 x 75k for each front seat as per TIS, so I got my son to sit on the bonnet whilst I went in the pit and torqued 'em up..
DC
Can someone confirm this pls, the guide doesn't say anything about putting it back on the floor before torque-ing up the bolts!! Does it need updating?
You must always tighten up the bolts with the car on the ground and some weight on the front, roughly equivelant to an eleven stone person in each front seat. If you don't do this the rubber bushes are constantly under excess pressure and will wear out in a very short time.
) how about I get on axle stands at the lowes level, take the wheel off and then use my trolley jack at the front of the wishbone to jack it up and put pressure on it, then tighten them further?Yeah! On the ground, hadn't got 2 x 75k for each front seat as per TIS, so I got my son to sit on the bonnet whilst I went in the pit and torqued 'em up..
DC
QuoteSo just to clarify.....sorry being a bit dimm nowYes.
In the pic above.....assuming thats the inner pad....the sensor plugs into the hole on the rhs?
So just to clarify.....sorry being a bit dimm now
In the pic above.....assuming thats the inner pad....the sensor plugs into the hole on the rhs?
Quotejust checked, back one..
Thanyou.....I guess you mean the inner pad tho?
QuoteARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Drivers side looks ok, passenger has oil YET AGAIN in the plug wells...
Maybe I need a new cover - it before I did it the FIRST time, some of the bolts were done up stupidly tight, and one was half hanging out - it doens't look warped, but perhaps it is..
It can wait at least a week, changing them twice in one week is enough to drive anybody nuts, three times is beyond a joke!
Perhaps if I get the bits one of you chaps would have a look for me, just to make sure I'm doing it right - although I'm pretty sure I am...
Still got to attempt my thermostat at some point, so maybe two birds, one stone...
Chris.
If someone can tell me honestly if its any harder to do the passenger cam cover gasket on a v6 than a 2.2 (ive done mine.....so know whats involved) then i could be willing to have a go......if its not any harder....while you change my disks and pads
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