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[aaronjb]

Having a car fettling weekend at a friends place with a nicely equipped garage, so after stripping one MR2 to a bare shell and pulling the roof off another, we decided to tackle some of my jobs list..

First came the door check strap bush - easy peasy (easier if I could have opened the door all the way, but there was an engine in the way!)

Then came breather cleaning - not too bad, although the breather box on the head is on the drivers side on mine, not passenger side as the guide says? Breathers turned out to be basically clear aside from the tiny holes in the box on the plenum.

Then came the cam covers.. Now it transpires that when I gave the vx garage the list of part numbers what I ended up with was:

Six *packs* of six black O rings for the plenum joint.
No o rings for the throttle bodies
ONLY TWO rather CAM COVER GASKETS!

So I've only done the drivers bank although it also turns out there was no oil in the wells, just around the cam cover bolts where they'd been torqued down too hard and flattened the small o rings...


Nothing is ever simple, eh? After all that PITA I'm quite tempted to see if one of the forums mobile mechanics will come and do the rest and a cambelt & accessory belt and tensioner.. I'm getting too old for this (I ache like you wouldn't believe today!)

Ok, rant over

[tunnie]

cam covers on V6 is pig, its easy as pie on the 4pots, sooooo much room!

[Andy B]

cam covers on V6 is pig, its easy as pie on the 4pots, sooooo much room!

A 4 pot might be easy but despite repeated mutterings here about how difficult cam covers & plugs are on a V6 I had no difficulty at all when doing mine. Maybe it's cos I use spanners more than a lot here  :-/  :-/  :-/  :-/
Be methodical, and they're straight forward. 

[tunnie]

cam covers on V6 is pig, its easy as pie on the 4pots, sooooo much room!

A 4 pot might be easy but despite repeated mutterings here about how difficult cam covers & plugs are on a V6 I had no difficulty at all when doing mine. Maybe it's cos I use spanners more than a lot here  :-/  :-/  :-/  :-/
Be methodical, and they're straight forward. 

Ohh I agree (uh-oh!) its a straight forward task just fiddly, forget which side it is but one is easy, its the other side with loom going over it was a pain!

[Andy B]

.... but one is easy,

driver's side

its the other side with loom going over it was a pain!

passenger's side 

[feeutfo]

.... but one is easy,

driver's side

its the other side with loom going over it was a pain!

passenger's side 

Off side/near side   .   

[V6 CDX-er]

I found the hardest thing was removing the coil packs. I simply couldn't figure it out untill a few kind folk on here had finished laughing and advised me on where I was going wrong.

Doing the plugs was real easy, even on the back plug (passenger side), so long as you used a u/j. The plugs would have been even easier if they hadn't been baked in place. Top tip, use a little copperslip when fitting new plugs!

[V6 CDX-er]

.... but one is easy,

driver's side

its the other side with loom going over it was a pain!

passenger's side 

Off side/near side   .   

I didn't find the loom to be that bad. Sure, it made it harder, but not that much IMO. Just removed all the plastic loom covers and stretched it out of the way using half a dozen cable ties attatched to the bonnet strut.

[Andy B]

.... but one is easy,

driver's side

its the other side with loom going over it was a pain!

passenger's side 

Off side/near side   .   

it's easier to put driver's side or passenger's side cos some don't know their ar$e from their elbow. I heard some one at work the other day talking about their near side driver's side wotsit!  :-? :-? 

[Andy B]

.... and stretched it out of the way using half a dozen cable ties attatched to the bonnet strut.

cable ties are one use (but you get them from work  ) so I prefer electric string! 

[davethediver]

cam covers on V6 is pig, its easy as pie on the 4pots, sooooo much room!

A 4 pot might be easy but despite repeated mutterings here about how difficult cam covers & plugs are on a V6 I had no difficulty at all when doing mine. Maybe it's cos I use spanners more than a lot here  :-/  :-/  :-/  :-/
Be methodical, and they're straight forward. 

Ohh I agree (uh-oh!) its a straight forward task just fiddly, forget which side it is but one is easy, its the other side with loom going over it was a pain!

Is this the start of something beautiful

[Andy B]

.....
Is this the start of something beautiful

 
 

[aaronjb]

I've still got the difficult side (passenger) cam cover gaskets to do - but clearly need to buy some gaskets for that side! It seems that rather than two pairs of camcover gaskets what I ended up with is one pair of camcover gaskets and one pair of orange gaskets that don't even belong on an Omega (at least I can't find a place for them! I'll post a picture tomorrow..) :-/

The job wouldn't have been anywhere near as frustrating if I hadn't found I'd got all the wrong bits  Don't think I'll be going back to that dealer, somehow! Perhaps I'll just mail order the bits from andyc instead and just use the dealers for oil & coolant.. assuming they can give me the right bottles 

*mutters and wanders off*

[VXL V6]

Orange gaskets are for the divider plate IIRC. Never seen any one have to replace them on here... Apart from V6-CDXer (I think) who's vehicle was totally devoid of them!

[aaronjb]

Orange gaskets are for the divider plate IIRC. Never seen any one have to replace them on here... Apart from V6-CDXer (I think) who's vehicle was totally devoid of them!

Oh no, I had those, too! I changed those out (the old ones were pretty squashed and hard) .. three gaskets, each made up of two lobes as it were.

The strange ones in question look more like they'd be an exhaust gasket only they're rubber - ahh wait, no! They must be the plastic divider to head gaskets! Two gaskets, each made up of three intake-shaped rings (that kind of 'oval with a bubble on the bottom' shape) joined together.