All done, not too many pics from the final assembly, there's nothing really tricky that's not covered in the removal...
Ready for the head, 3 hole gasket used - could probably have used a 2 hole, but I had this one, negligable compression difference.
Head lugged from the shed and chained to the crane - gave the mating face a good clean down with brake cleaner until the rags showed no dirt/oil residue
And it's on
I use a bit of card to keep track of where I've torqued to, a line for each stage, and I use a digital torque wrench that does both torque and angles.
First stage done - 30nm
All done, so 30nm, 65nm, 90 degrees, 180 degrees, & 45 degrees.
Old front crank seal had clearly been leaking
Cleaned up the oil and gave a light finishing sand to the journal
Got the big 3/4 drive torque wrench out to do the crank pulley bolt up to 460nm - gearbox in 4 & hand brake on, easy peasy.
No pics for the rest, all straightforward - although the turbo oil return flange/gasket gave a right fight!
She fired up on the first extended crank, no huge smoke plume.
Injector idle balances all nice - couldn't see _any_ blowby out of the oil filler plug.
Ran the engine for 30 mins with just water and coolant flush in, then dropped that out and put in some OAT.
Have done 25 miles in it so far, just pootling - will do a couple hundred easy miles to let the rings bed in, then change the oil. It's got some semi synth 10w40 in for now, but will stuff some magnatec 5w30 in when it gets changed along with some ZDDP oil additive to protect the cam.
