Rocker Shaft

iannotts said:

set ya tappets with a rule of nine

e.g.
1 fully open set 8
2 fully open set 7 etc


fookin hylomar.....

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I think it's gona go woosh right over his head. Must be a thread on this for him somewhere.

If he has wound off his rockers then it's gona be more difficult to determine which cylinders are rocking.

Hope he torqued the head properly, I think he had better go over all the important bits again from a manual, or a thread somewhere.

david451 said:

I think it's gona go woosh right over his head. Must be a thread on this for him somewhere.

If he has wound off his rockers then it's gona be more difficult to determine which cylinders are rocking.

Hope he torqued the head properly, I think he had better go over all the important bits again from a manual, or a thread somewhere.

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int there one on the downloads site?

iannotts said:

true ... if not snap may bend it. hope he tightens everything down in the correct sequence as well

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I don't think he should be doing this from this site, advice yes but he should have bought a manual or down loaded a thread on it with all the data and worked from it. A little knowledge is dangerous they say.

iannotts said:

int there one on the downloads site?

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Must be, there is a great one on the timing belt.

I mean no fooker ever told him to hylomar the head down lucky he got it back off.

david451 said:

It does actually because it's impossible to set them up with them all wound off, when you turn the engine you cant tell which valves are on the rock.

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Aye how long does it take to screw them back?

Anyway - POS stick it on a trailer and bring it up here and I will finish it for you.

Have you got a haynes? That will at least keep you on track, a bit!

I think I remember him saying someone told him to hylomar it. Ah well. POS, check your PM's.

yup... then you add the heat and compression the head gasket has to deal with. Hope its not a ****part one he has replaced it with.

discomania said:

Aye how long does it take to screw them back?

Anyway - POS stick it on a trailer and bring it up here and I will finish it for you.

Have you got a haynes? That will at least keep you on track, a bit!

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I know what you are saying makes sense, and it only takes a second to wind them back, but wind them too far or summat and break a rocker when he turns the engine. You and I know what we are doing but this chap is struggling a bit.

I think your trailer option is a good one, or down load the thread and spend an afternoon reading it wif a cuppa.

Where in Scotland are you David?

discomania said:

Where in Scotland are you David?

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just outside lanark, between there and douglas

So I probably park next to you at the Lanark market?

discomania said:

So I probably park next to you at the Lanark market?

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Only been there a couple of times wif the dogs, take them to the vets there, the two boys used to play for Kirkfield United on the grass opposite and in the barracks before it got fooked up, fooking great park so it was.

Joined the slroc but never got away last year, too much going on and only bought the disco last year but it needed a bit done.

Went got stuck last year so I did without my boards, just a quick look at an area so it was but the fooker dug in like a mole.

Bloody hell I'm not totally thick! I've rebuilt my engine once and it's still running sound (the bores and pistons still look like new), all abide the silly mistake that I made with the head gasket goo from advice that I was given over the net That's now rectified and I will be adjusting my tappets as per usual. I would have been doing that anyway, but from some of your posts about "winding down" and all that (which is making things a lot more difficult than they need to be!), I thought I was missing something. I just sat the rocker on, kept an eye on all the pushrods and tightened it down evenly, bit by bit up to torque. The two valves (with pushrods which were sat proud on the lobe) compressed the valve springs etc. etc., so all is well.

What clearance do I need on the tappets though? I can't remember which feeler gauge I used last time I did it

Thanks for all the advice
-Pos!

iannotts said:

yup... then you add the heat and compression the head gasket has to deal with. Hope its not a ****part one he has replaced it with.

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Nope, Jake Wrights sold me an original one (which was actually in German wrapping) for £13 odd. It has all the Land Rover authorised original shiny stickers etc.

The previous one was ****part.

My new manifold gasket is ****part and it felt **** too. Horrible, soft and floppy. Thank god its not fatal if that thing decided to decintegrate! Saying that, my engine will no doubt suck it in and compress it!

Bugger
-Pos

Valve clearance is 0.25mm i think, its on here somewhere. Ill check tomorrow.

Cheers, wish they'd get the search fixed
-Pos

It works for me? Normally. Ill check the spec tomorrow, ill get back if it isnt as above.

pos said:

Hello,

I've just fitted a new head gasket and got the head back on my 2.5 N/A but I can't get the rocker shaft to seat properly. When I did my rebuild it was as easy as lifting it off and then just placing it back down when it came to re-fitting it.

Number 4 Pushrod seems to be sticking up a little, as does number 7, and the shaft seems to balance on these two push rods, number 4 a little more than number 7, the rest of them are all loose.

The rod is sat in its little feeler properly (as far as I can tell from the feeling), so I don't know what I've done wrong or how to fix it!

Any suggestions?
-Pos

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Ehm, was it not you who posted this, mr I'm not thick or sumut

pos said:

I don't fully understand what you mean by adjusting the valves, and I have never adjusted anything, even after my engine re-build

Do you mean adjusting the tappets (rocker arms clearance)? What gauge feeler should I be using?

Also, when you talk about winding the valves back in, what do you mean by that?

Cheers

-Pos

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And this

Yes because it just seated absolutely fine the last two times that I've had it off and then put it back on, but I suppose that was just down to good luck and the position that the engine (and cam) stopped at. I was really asking whether there was anything else potentially wrong that I had somehow caused without realising when I'd had the head off (because I didn't want to risk breaking anything forcing it down). Then when I came to my senses as to what it was I just went with tightening it up bit by bit until it sat flat and all the bolts were at the right torque.

What's annoyed me is that everyone is making out that it's a massive deal and I'll have to be winding down my valves and all that crap when really all I needed to do is exactly what I've done. Simple! Fixed.