Brief update -
Sooooo, the thread cutting went spectacularly well, I went for Sealy kit VS301 which did the magic.
I will edit a vid to show later, but I am not sure it will be super interesting, just me mostly in the way of the camera really, but hey ho, someone might be interested.
Used loads of grease on the tap to catch swarf, did about 2.5-3 turns of the tap in quarter turn increments, then backed out, cleaned the tap and re-greased.....used the vacuum to clean the area each time the tap was removed too.
Popped the new insert on the install tool, which uses a locking sleeve to hold the insert in place while you screw it in, used Loctite threadlocker on the insert, screwed that in, released the locking nut on the sleeve and wound that back, then unscrewed the tool from the now seated insert and waited 30 mins while I tidied the tools away and cleaned up a bit for the locker to go off a bit, then spun in a new plug, new coil and also changed the other 7 plugs while I was in there.
Some of the plug wells were soaked in oil, so looks like I will be needing to re-seal the other rocker cover too.....but that can wait for a moment as I need to get the P38 running properly first and also allow my bank balance to re-coup after the last few weeks of disasters!
Now here's the thing - 6 of the remaining 7 plugs where so loose, There was no resistance to unscrewing them, only one was torqued down......Why can't people do simple jobs properly??
Unfortunately the battery in the camera ran out before I could put the LPG together and the new coils on, so the vid I will edit together later only goes up to removing a couple of the plugs!!
But, she fired up gave a puff of smoke as the grease was burnt off, but ran smoothly (aside from the VANOS ticking - which is again something else to do!)
