Sumptuous ;)inside was nice,
exterior mainly un-cleanable.. even with wire brush and kerosene..gave up ;)
in this nice photograph, you can plainly see the sump gasket someone has used before.. silicone everywhere and no trace of a normal gasket.. took ages to remove beads of sealer.. mainly from outside and inside of block not from gasket face... all with a scalple, holding a table lamp in other hand, with engine swinging above me ;)))
ello ello !.. what haven't we here then ? .. it starts to dawn on me ..
When doing sump from under car, maybe these would have been a bit more obvious.. but with engine up on a crane, they went unnoticed for some time :(
Quick way to get about 20 sump bolts out ;) 'sump removal machine'.... the sump gasket was one of the initial must-do jobs.. the silicone flapping about on the outside of the block/sump face looked nasty... an oil leak hot-spot I had hoped... Lesson, you can undo 20 bolts quicker than an F1 pit crew, but no mention is made of the two hidden allen bolts going up though A/C compressor mounting, at least not in my haynes... this was supposed to be one of the easiest and quickest jobs, a sump gasket change... try 2 hours !
belt on, new tensioner... idler feels a touch loose... will think of changing it in nearish future.. not noisy and no worse that the spare engine...
After an Offside engine clean, first nightmare tonight... 3 hands needed... I spent about 30 mins trying different ways to compress the cambelt auto tensioner, this is what finally worked..a brake union spanner. ... very frustrating job.. in Haynes there is a way to avoid letting things get like this (when working alone).. add to this time spent cleaning each 'valley' in 4 different sprockets, blahblah.. adding this belt seemed to take half the night! anyway, all on and timing spot on.. :)
didn't spot this until tonight... different cam sprockets from a'97 to 99(97 at top), injection pump is similar.. assume weight loss? ..
longest night so far...
started at 6ish, cleaned up and in at about 11 30 for dinner :( - working in moonlight in end.... pretty much...
Tonights jobs, cambelt and tensioner, sump gasket... should be easy, right? (there were many other jobs on the list today)
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