How long do we have to sit here waiting holding our breath ?????
Is it RUNNING YET ??
Sorry, gents. It's pishing it down here and I refuse to go out in it.
Nobody more frustrated than me.
Another frustrating thing is I ordered I beam torque wrench to set tensioner pulley when doing the timing. Ordered Wednesday evening via Amazon Prime. Said delivery Friday, perfect I thought. It didn't arrive so I thought it would come this morning. Nowt! Checked on Website and it now says Tuesday
Been in touch with Amazon and the bloody thing is coming from Germany
The operative, who was not helpful, reckons they mustn't have had one and the nearest the could get one from was Germany. She said I could order another one today and it would arrive tomorrow!
I don't believe her
It would have been great to try and get it started this weekend, but the emerging plan is; Take head off from temp torque down on the three hole gasket, make sure all is clean with head and cylinders, torque head down fully on to no hole gasket, fit heater plugs, injectors, fit inlet manifold, turbo, connect up air box & pipes, alternator etc. This will be tomorrow as it's forecast to continue raining here until 6pm.
Looking like next weekend to do timing belt, tappets, stick rad on, fill up with oil and water and give her a go. Having cranked it over with stop solenoid disconnected until oil light goes out! (I keep reminding myself of this so I don't forget at the time)
I don't know if there is another tried and tested method for getting the correct tension on the timing pulley, but if not I'm happy to wait and get it right with a torque wrench when it arrives.