#head #shaved #giggity

 

 

Head on bolts in, shims in.

 

 

Torque tool :P

 

 

Oil filter on.

 

 

Cams and new seals in.

 

 

Cover plate on, snapped another bolt putting this on :/

 

 

New timing belt and tensioner.

 

 

Heat wrap. I'm so damn itchy now.

 

 

Alternator bracket / header.

 

 

Alternator / dizzy

 

 

Rearranged water lines.

 

 

Inlet manifold, injectors etc

 

 

And where I finished for the day.

 

Woohoo!

 

Great progress.

 

You'll have to take me for a spin next cruise.

Started first pop. It wanted to rev really high though so something isnt quite right. But it runs.

 

I'm too tired, hungover, sunburned and hungry to mess with it today. Ill iron out the bugs tomorrow morning.

 

 

good work mate. heat wraps a bitch hey!

High idle was just the acc cable. Adjusted that and she purrs. Quite proud of myself. First ever head gasket change.

 

Dat lump...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjU5_Ltybtk&feature=share&list=UUYxibhJNENF4H2X1AKF9ZiQ

 

Ill run it for quarter of an hour tomorrow, drop the Woolworths brand oil and put some yummy Penrite in, drop the water, reverse flush the rad and put coolant in and it'll be ready for a test drive.

#giggity ;-)

Well done mate.

 

And also well done for doing the job properly! Alot of people wouldn't have shaved that head and cleaned the block so well and then wondered why it blows again in a few months!

Cheers Dave. This was the first flush. Put another one through with nulon flush and metho. Now has the good oil in. Few little things to do then drive.

 

going well mate!! bet you can't wait to drive it again

Excellent job reed, congrats to a job done right this first time, well done.

Cheers guys. Car hasnt beaten me yet. Yet.

Ok. Got home after waiting for the missus to get her hair cut for 3.5 hours. Got stuck back in to it.

 

Drilled out the rad support and mounted some hectic JDM as bonnet pins as my bonnet was flapping about without the middle support.

Bonnet down, ready to go :D

 

 

Dropped the water and flushed the rad. Pit in some coolant and took it for a spin.

 

It made it to the servo, smoke was billowing out from the engine bay from the heat wrap, got some strange looks.

 

 

Drove it up and down the back roads for ages fine tuning things. The throttle kept getting jammed open so I had to remount the acc cable. Then it started heating up, even when the thermo fan kicked in. Had a look, turns out the polarity of the fan motor was wired to blow instead of suck, love easy ones like that.

 

 

There was still this weird hesitation/power drop outs. I fiddled with the AFM for ages, got it to a good place but still had some pops and farts.

Checked the plugs, gapped and cleaned them, threw them back in. 10x WORSE than before. But a good indication of whats wrong. Went and grabbed some cheapies and threw them in. The one out of cyl 4 was still covered in fuel.

 

 

Took it for a last spin, it was getting late and I was at that point where you CBF anymore.

 

 

Sorted, boosting, running cool.

 

 

Just needs a wash.

conrats reed, well done

cool, love your work mate.

Its weeping oil a bit, I forgot to pack some sealant in the corners of the cam covers. Hopefully thats all it is.