ickle bit of a pictureless update and progress report
today ive washed the sump out and the oil filter housing bowl new filter and copped for a face full of black runny oil when i dropped the bugger in the drain pan i was using ( 2 baths later i still look like im wearing fookin guyliner )
cleaned the oil pickup sieve thingy and refitted that sump back on with a new gasket and a layer of that gastight sealant stuff on each side of that
head cleaned out good n proppa and refitted with another brand new head gasket ( one of those new sticky coated fekkers that bearmach are doing ) came out of the £35 full head refurb set
this time i set the friggin torque wrench meself to 90lb/ft not 90nm :doh: and set all me tappets up to 0.10 with the feelers then checked and double checked me valve timing with the DTI gauge borrowed from the engineers and the fine wire needle sight trick and evrything is bang on with TDC
primed and built up oil flow to the head and hand cranked it to make sure its flowing correctly round the rocker ports and bearing surfaces and all is well with that
refitted the manifolds using the old new gasket from last time as i cant see anything wrong with the bugger
and tomorrow i think im gonna refit the fuel injectors but check them for spray pattern again before i do then refit the rocker cover and the glow plugs and she should be good to go
then its just a case of plug me ears gasmask on fingers eyes legs bollix and toes crossed and prey its fookin right this time