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[JamesV6CDX]

Only had two hours on it tonight, but got a fair bit done:

Surfaces cleaned, cam cover gaskets and O rings fitted, cam covers on and torqued.

Rear coolant transfer pipe fitted with new seal and lots of sealant!

Old spark plugs out (One felt like it was going to snap  :-/ ) - thankfully it didn't

New spark plugs in

Coolant Bridge refitted with new washers

HBV re-fitted and all rubber hoses at the back of the engine connected and secured

CTS and temp gauge sender re-connected

Thermostat housing re-fitted (Using mark's sealent recommendation)

Front transfer pipe re-fitted and secured (bit of a bodge, used existing seals and some sealant in the housing (But will make a proper job when I can get up to Max's)

DIS Pack re-fitted and plug connected (my poor knuckles)

Crank sensor re-connected

HT leads re-fitted, routed and shoved in the plug wells!

Tomorrow, assuming I don't get called into work, I just need to change the Rad, get all the inlet and plenum on, get the air injection stuff on at the front, and work out the vacuum pipes. Get the cable trays on.. just bits and peices really

Fingers crossed it will run tomorrow night!!!

[sounds2k]

good work fella.

Here's hoping it lives again  

[STMO123]

Only had two hours on it tonight, but got a fair bit done:

Surfaces cleaned, cam cover gaskets and O rings fitted, cam covers on and torqued.

Rear coolant transfer pipe fitted with new seal and lots of sealant!

Old spark plugs out (One felt like it was going to snap  :-/ ) - thankfully it didn't

New spark plugs in

Coolant Bridge refitted with new washers

HBV re-fitted and all rubber hoses at the back of the engine connected and secured

CTS and temp gauge sender re-connected

Thermostat housing re-fitted (Using mark's sealent recommendation)

Front transfer pipe re-fitted and secured (bit of a bodge, used existing seals and some sealant in the housing (But will make a proper job when I can get up to Max's)

DIS Pack re-fitted and plug connected (my poor knuckles)

Crank sensor re-connected

HT leads re-fitted, routed and shoved in the plug wells!

Tomorrow, assuming I don't get called into work, I just need to change the Rad, get all the inlet and plenum on, get the air injection stuff on at the front, and work out the vacuum pipes. Get the cable trays on.. just bits and peices really

Fingers crossed it will run tomorrow night!!!

It took you two hours! Lazy barsteward

[Taxi_Driver]

Blimey James.....you got loads done  

I woulda spent 2 hours just looking at the job....and having a ciggie or 3  

[Kevin Wood]

I've just spent 2 hours trying to get to the drum bearings on SWMBOs washing machine... and I've made nowhere near as much progress as James. Looks like a total stripdown and I've got that horrible feeling that it's never going to work again creeping up on me.

That'll either be because I can't remember how it all went together or because sammy sledgehammer is embedded in it!

Kevin

[TheBoy]

I've just spent 2 hours trying to get to the drum bearings on SWMBOs washing machine... and I've made nowhere near as much progress as James. Looks like a total stripdown and I've got that horrible feeling that it's never going to work again creeping up on me.

That'll either be because I can't remember how it all went together or because sammy sledgehammer is embedded in it!

Kevin

When I stripped mine (turns out you can't change just the bearings, and new drum required), I was very, very drunk when I put it all back together. So thats my advice....

[Kevin Wood]

When I stripped mine (turns out you can't change just the bearings, and new drum required), I was very, very drunk when I put it all back together. So thats my advice....

I'm on it ;-)

Last time I did one was when I was at university. Got given an old machine with knackered bearings. Didn't have one in our student dive so whacked in some new bearings and job's a good'un. The machine had a bearing carrier at the back of the drum which just unbolted, drift out old bearings, install new, bolt on carrier.

This one's got a nasty plastic outer drum with the bearings drifted into a metal insert moulded into the drum, larger bearing on the inside, so it's never going to happen without removing the drum and splitting the two halves. It'll probably leak like a knackered HBV once it's back together  

Kevin

[tunnie]

blimey James that was all very quick!  

Well Done m8  

[Bo Bo]

Blimey James.....you got loads done  

I woulda spent 2 hours just looking at the job....and having a ciggie or 3  

Likewise  

[Admin]

Well done James.

Hope you get it all together and running this evening.