Ooh I could rip a tissue , I feel VERY manly now. Engine now in my spotlessly clean dry work space (garden floor) covered with a shower curtain. Most of tinware off, , what's left of exhaust off, heat ex off, alt off, fan housing off, manifolds off. I've even bagged and labeled nuts bolts etc, normally I just chuck it everywhere. Need to eat a few takeaways quick to get storage tubs
You'll have to be gentle with me as I know chuff about engines and their innards, so most of my questions may be pretty crap. I'll start with these 1. I have about a mm of end float. Does that mean its scrap or can it be saved possibly. 2. There is lots of oil spray around the engine bay behind the fanhousing Crank oil seal pooped? 3. Back to my end float, no point in a new oil seal if there's a mm of end float,? 4. Spark plug on cylinder 3 is not wanting to come out. Should I force it out or leave in? Thinking of damaging the head removing the plug, but if it's jammed/melted in , is the head useless anyway?
1. Ideally, the case needs machining. You can't get rid of that much endfloat by shimming. 2. Possibly, or oil cooler seal gone. 3. Correct, if it is the crank seal. 4. Scrub filth off head, soak with penetrating oil or WD40 overnight. Then use some force. What happens, happens.
Quality I like your style Jez - playing Jenga with the kids with one hand whilst dropping the engine out with the other
Could part of your engine running problem be due to the fact 3 and 4 plug leads are round the wrong way ? 1 4 3 2 ???
Are they? They weren't wrong before , but after last rac man had a fiddle we slapped it all back together in a gay carefree manner as we knew it was shagged and getting a free ride home !
1. I thought if there was that much float the case couldn't be machined enough. Didn't @paradox have similar, had to get new case? 2. Oil cooler and surround was nice and clean. Almost too clean!
Oh and when removing dissy , am I supposed to mark it position for ease of putting it back, or does it not matter?
^this. No real need to mark the dissy - you can work out where it goes when you put it back. Just need to make sure you put the drive dog below it in the right position when reassembling. Don't lose the little spring under the dissy! Don't split the case until you've got the flywheel off!
Now you're starting to lose me !! Drive dog in right position when reassembling ?? Little spring? How do I get the flywheel off? So far I've just pulled off things that are quite obvious how to pull off! Should I be pulling off in a particular order?
Flywheel comes off with a gert big socket and breaker bar. Or rattle gun. Best done when you've still got something to grab hold of, so don't whip the cylinders off just yet.
