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[Markie]

sounds like a good weekend, looking good now though, everything crossed on this one  

[Auto Addict]

Fingers crossed

[Dazzler]

Good job done by the sounds of it, keep it up

[Jimbob]

Sounds as if you may be nearly there!

Time to resurrect the forums longest thread?

 

[TheBoy]

Sounds as if you may be nearly there!

Time to resurrect the forums longest thread?

 

that thread is no longer valid, as that was engine change.  hence new head swap thread.

maybe time for another project tb2 update thread.

[Martin_1962]

Sounds as if you may be nearly there!

Time to resurrect the forums longest thread?

 

that thread is no longer valid, as that was engine change.  hence new head swap thread.

maybe time for another project tb2 update thread.

So who is Brains and who is Virgil?

[CaptainZok]

Sounds as if you may be nearly there!

Time to resurrect the forums longest thread?

 

that thread is no longer valid, as that was engine change.  hence new head swap thread.

maybe time for another project tb2 update thread.

I thought this was TB2

[TheBoy]

Sounds as if you may be nearly there!

Time to resurrect the forums longest thread?

 

that thread is no longer valid, as that was engine change.  hence new head swap thread.

maybe time for another project tb2 update thread.

I thought this was TB2

No, thats the rather nice Thrashmobile...  ...an excellent little motor.

[justme]

Yesterday, Jay W came over for the day.  We managed to get the donor head off, and think we found why that wasn't running too well - the chain guide was Donald Duck'd and one of the guides was in several pieces.

It was good to be able to practice on the donor, as it had more room around it. Very handy.

Omegatoy turned up, and helped strip my garage door to bits the orignal engine down.  We managed to get the head off just as it got dark (and didn't see the CTS still connected, which I then had to repair).

With the old head off, it was too dark to refit.


Omegatoy popped over again today, and helped pop the donor head on the car, and get the chain back on.

After he left, I bolted the manifold to the turbo, did up the small bolts around timing cover, popped the vac on, and the rocker cover.


My biggest concern is that the cam chain sprocket has not key. Very strange. Nothing to stop it spinning other than its a tappered shaft.

You should have no concern about your sprocket, just make sure the tapers are clean, done properly it will never spin on the taper. peoples perhaps do not realise how much thier lives depend on tapers.

[TheBoy]

Yesterday, Jay W came over for the day.  We managed to get the donor head off, and think we found why that wasn't running too well - the chain guide was Donald Duck'd and one of the guides was in several pieces.

It was good to be able to practice on the donor, as it had more room around it. Very handy.

Omegatoy turned up, and helped strip my garage door to bits the orignal engine down.  We managed to get the head off just as it got dark (and didn't see the CTS still connected, which I then had to repair).

With the old head off, it was too dark to refit.


Omegatoy popped over again today, and helped pop the donor head on the car, and get the chain back on.

After he left, I bolted the manifold to the turbo, did up the small bolts around timing cover, popped the vac on, and the rocker cover.


My biggest concern is that the cam chain sprocket has not key. Very strange. Nothing to stop it spinning other than its a tappered shaft.

You should have no concern about your sprocket, just make sure the tapers are clean, done properly it will never spin on the taper. peoples perhaps do not realise how much thier lives depend on tapers.

Yup, subsequently found out this is fairly common.  Still concerns me though.