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« on: 26 July 2011, 19:41:47 »
How long to change the cam cover gaskets. Bearing in mind that i have never had the plenum off. so this will be new to me.
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #1 on: 26 July 2011, 19:51:44 »
take it to the daft looney. i spernt a nice afternoon up there and my car is still running like a dream several months after :)
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #2 on: 26 July 2011, 20:03:35 »
Depends on your approach.  I like to explore the car, clean stuff up as I go and generally take my time.  I guess a couple of hours at that rate. 

But there is no point doing the cam covers without cleaning out the breathers as well.  This takes just as long if not longer.  I recall taking a leisurely day over the whole job with plenty of tea breaks. 

You could do it much quicker if you put your mind to it.  Darth Loo-Knee or Elite Pete would no doubt do it quicker yet, and probably pick up on other stuff we would miss. 
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #3 on: 26 July 2011, 20:19:47 »
It also depends how experienced a mechanic you are. This was the first job I did after discovering OOF about 4 years ago. It took me all day.
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« Reply #4 on: 26 July 2011, 20:44:21 »
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Depends on your approach.  I like to explore the car, clean stuff up as I go and generally take my time.  I guess a couple of hours at that rate. 

But there is no point doing the cam covers without cleaning out the breathers as well.  This takes just as long if not longer.  I recall taking a leisurely day over the whole job with plenty of tea breaks. 

You could do it much quicker if you put your mind to it.  Darth Loo-Knee or Elite Pete would no doubt do it quicker yet, and probably pick up on other stuff we would miss. 


thing is (imo) i could spend 200 bucks for daz to do it and i aint wasting a day probably getting angry when things go wrong..... unless of course you enjoy mechanics  :y
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #5 on: 26 July 2011, 21:53:20 »
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How long to change the cam cover gaskets. Bearing in mind that i have never had the plenum off. so this will be new to me.
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If you can wait a couple of weeks I can give you a hand .. :) We're not back until the 15th

It took me  a full day the first time I did it .. mainly cos I screwed up and had to redo one side .. :( Now I would reckon a couple to 3 hours.... seem to recall when I helped Griffen do his (Devizes) we took around 4 hours, but I was a tad rotten .. I made him do most of the work .. :) also, IIRC, his breathers were a tad blocked .. so much so he had to pop out and buy more carb cleaner !!!
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #6 on: 27 July 2011, 08:43:24 »
Thanks for the offer Entwood. I have to get it done over this next weekend as the better by half is going in to the hospital for a new Knee joint so things will be a bit hectic after the weekend.
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #7 on: 27 July 2011, 08:56:55 »
When did you want to do the job as i'm around if you need a had but i'm at work on shift Thursday and Friday this week. :y
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #8 on: 27 July 2011, 09:05:55 »
First time, give yourself a day. Possible in under 3 hours, Inc breather clean, probably even 2hrs if you don't stop.

It's one of my least favourite jobs
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #9 on: 27 July 2011, 09:40:22 »
It took me 8 hours, This included running in to hide 5 times as it pissed it down. I changed the cam covers/plugs/leads cleaned the breathers cleaned the plenum, cleaned the throttle body cleaned everything really.
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #10 on: 27 July 2011, 13:25:14 »
Took me the whole of last weekend somehow. ;D Not that they were leaking much in the end. >:(

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« Reply #11 on: 27 July 2011, 13:32:59 »
Took me all weekend and i only did one side  ;D plus a cam belt and pulley change, water pump, plugs and that was at the cam meet a few mths back. Mind it was a late start on the Sunday and the other side was not leaking but have done the hard to get to side :y
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« Reply #12 on: 27 July 2011, 14:17:26 »
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Took me all weekend and i only did one side  ;D plus a cam belt and pulley change, water pump, plugs and that was at the cam meet a few mths back. Mind it was a late start on the Sunday and the other side was not leaking but have done the hard to get to side :y

Oh, yeah, I did the cam belt, water pump, plugs and thermostat too. :-[
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #13 on: 27 July 2011, 14:40:31 »
I forgot to add mine were leaking so bad my plugs were sat in an inch of oil. so I had a lot of cleaning to do lol.

@TheBoy I hated it too. My back was killing after  :-/
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Re: cam covers
« Reply #14 on: 27 July 2011, 14:54:50 »
Did mine last week following the guide on this forum, took me four hours and that was taking my time, including cleaning all the oil out of the spark plug wells(couldn't even see the tos of the plugs). Superb guide and forum.
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