Torqued all the 1/2″ head bolts to 90 Nm and the 5/16″ ones to 30 Nm. then i went around re-attaching all of the hoses, manifolds etc to the head. Next job is the valve clearances.
I have lapped all of the valves in, now I just need to re-assemble the head and pop it back on with new stem seals and gaskets etc etc. Shouldn’t take too long. Looking lovely..
I went and picked up the head today from the place that skimmed it for me. I think the surface is looking vastly better. Apparently it was dished by about 2 thousandths of an inch.
We went and stayed with Dad in Par, visited the beach everyday.. ..and also took a walk up through the Luxulyan valley where there are some old clay workings, in which we came across some bats. Cool to see, we kept our visit with them as short as possible so as to not to disturb them too much.
I did another Autotest last Friday in the Volvo with Woolbridge Motor Club at the Clay Pigeon Raceway. I had great fun once again.
I stripped and re assembled the fuel related parts of the carb, all looked okay. I assume i achieved nothing in doing this short the knowledge that i likely wasted my time.
I got a rush of keen-nosity and pulled the head off the Land Rover last night. I didn’t really want to, but the moment grabbed me and I did it. I am glad it’s off, as I can see that there was one wet head bolt, suggesting that the gasket was letting water past. As it’s off now it’s an opportunity to get everything cleaned up and new gaskets everywhere. This was the spark plug inspection and compression testing, thanks to Dan for the compression tester. Then the removal of the head: And that’s as far as I have gotten, now I neeed to do a proper inspection of the head and block etc.
So the spark plugs made little difference. I picked up a rebuild kit for the lift pump last week and so the moment it turned up here, i didn’t do it, but i left it in until later on and then did it. Not wildly easy to get the valves out. I have yet to start the engine having done this. So i might have failed to do something or made no change to the issue. We’ll see when i run it, if it even runs now.
The fan belt had started squeeling, so i tightened it but found that it was at maximum adjustment once tight. So bought another and fitted it the other day. A fifteen minute job.
I change the spark plugs as it developed a misfire at high rpm and underload. The plugs turned up yesterday and i got them in today. I put a little WD40 on each connection for added water resistance.
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