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[Del Boy]

Sounds like you had a day of it m8

[Chopsdad]

Wish me luck.... tomorrow I'm (hopefully) finishing off the corsa.

Just odds and sods to re-assemble really... although, the only thing I'm worried about it getting the air ducting in (really should have done this before fitting the manifold/head..

Hopefully I'll have it running though....

Good Luck James  

[JamesV6CDX]

Good progress today considering.

Replacement head all cleaned up, block all cleaned up. Pistons are marked but not enough to concern me. Today, have:

* Fitted inlet manifold to head
* Fitted head gasket , and carefully placed head on top.
* Head bolts all Tightened down to exact specifications
* Exhaust manifold & exhaust fitted with new gasket, bolts all torqued down perfectly. Heatshield fitted.
* Cambelt area thoroughly cleaned
* Rear cam cover on
* Cam sprockets on and torqued
* Valve timing set
* New timing belt KIT fitted
* Outer timing belt covers fitted
* Throttle body cleaned and fitted.
* Injectors and injector rail fitted and secured with new seals.
* Fuel lines on
* Crank sensor and cam sensor fitted (crank connected)
* Rocker cover fitted and torqued perfectly with new gaskets.
* Coolant hoses fitted to inlet manifold
* Many other electricals, multiplugs,

Basically it's just bits and peices to go together now, but I'm afraid the darkness got the better of me, and I had to stop.

Bugger.

To do,

* Alternator + Aux belt
* Airbox and ducting
* A few stray electricals
* Coolant bottle
* Breathers and Vaccum hoses
* Air inlet/plenum (whatever it's called) that screws onto the inlet manifold.
* General service and tidy up/clean in the engine bay

So all in all, not bad, considering I started at 11ish and finished at 5...

Another 2 hours should see it running

I spent all day Wednesday (directly after a night shift!) working on this Corsa.

New head fitted, new timing belt fitted, everything back together.

Tried to start her, wouldn't go. Looked in engine bay - forgot Cam sensor. DOH! Fitted cam sensor, tried again, and vroom! She fired up, and died again. Thinking it just needed to pressurise the injector rail, I started it again, and she ran.

Only problem was, she was running at mega high revs (eg near the red line) without touching the throttle! All electrics etc were fine, so I decided it absolutely must be unmetered air entering the cylinders. Spend a good couple of hours looking for the cause, and just couldn't find it. Started to get frustrated, and removed the inlet/throttle body. I then noticed that I'd slightly damaged a gasket. Didn't think it was significant, but didn't know what else to try, so went to VX and got a new one. Put it on and torqued it all down with a new gasket, and it now runs as sweet as a nut!!

I must post some pictures of the valves on the old head, they were in a bad way...

Job done

[TheBoy]

[x25xe]

Nice one. [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

What a great feeling it must have been when it ran properly again.

[hotel21]

Glad to hear thats it a good'un.    

Nothing better than getting a big box of engine bits back where they belong, in the correct order, and finding you a) managed to use them all and b) have none left over.