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[Webby the Bear]

Finished at about quarter to 9 tonight. But I can happily report the Mig is all back together.

The cambelt cover gave me a few headaches. The aux belt tensioner was tight against it giving me the impression it had perhaps warped when the belt gave up. So swapped it over for a spare I had in the garage. Aux belt tensioner was spinning nicely. Then found out the PAS pulley was tight against the cover  cos I couldn't get the bottom right cover bolt in........ cos the cover I had was for a pre-FL 

So. back to the original cover and it turns out it wasn't warped.... i'd just got the secondary air injection hose bracket (off the alternator) caught up... moved it and the cover fitted nicely.

my next fight was with the aux belt.....again took ages. til I realised it was caught up on the secondary air injection pipe near the PAS pump 

my next fight was with the secondary air injection pipe itself (can you see a theme here  ). had to improvise with some fuel line as I lost the fitting near the PAS pump.

other than that all is good,

before I start her up got to fill up the PAS reservoir as I lost it all for some reason (must have tipped the bottle during strip down) and there are a couple of hose clamps missing. but other than that all good.

martin is kindly popping round Saturday with a battery charger as my battery is down to 11.76v. then we'll see how we did.


Anyway, the reason i'm posting this is to discuss the rebuild in general on the omega.

I think I've realised that ive still got so much to learn. not with the theory... the principles are easy. but mainly with overcoming ohysical problems. like when those lifters got stuck. i'd have been nackered. but martins patience got us through. fairly confident I couldn't have done the B bolt myself. or if I could it would have take ages 
great experience in terms of looking at the omega naked. and good to know I now have fresh seals, gaskets and everything else is new (except cc gaskets).

if it goes bang again ill scrap it and get another one though. hopefully it wont lol


oh and its a good job I decided to go and check the exhaust manifold bolts were tight...... i'd missed one  but theyre all done up and torqued now.

Roll on Saturday 

[05omegav6]

Well persevered

[albitz]

Yep,good effort webby. Hope it runs sweet when you fire it up.

[Webby the Bear]

Cheers lads, 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Nice one Webby!   

[Vamps]

Well done that Man............

[Rods2]

Well done, not an easy car to work on as I found, when I did my head gaskets. 

[henryd]

Just don't worry when you start it as it'll sound bloody awful untill the tappets pump out

[Marks DTM Calib]

Cough 'followers' cough.

The trick to removal/insertion of the followers is to use a valve grinding stick....the suckers on the end work vey well for that.

Interestingly, I fully stripped a follower the other night so now know how to fully disassemble and clean one.

The V6 is actualy a pretty straight forward engine to do headgaskets on in reality, about a days job all in (even with swapping manifolds etc over and cleaning)

[Webby the Bear]

Cough 'followers' cough.

The trick to removal/insertion of the followers is to use a valve grinding stick....the suckers on the end work vey well for that.

Interestingly, I fully stripped a follower the other night so now know how to fully disassemble and clean one.

The V6 is actualy a pretty straight forward engine to do headgaskets on in reality, about a days job all in (even with swapping manifolds etc over and cleaning)

Two were actually rusted in, Mark. And wouldnt budge. i get them out with magnets usually. once they were out i cleaned up all the debris and used fine emery to go around the bore they sit in. and then recleaned. they went in nicely and came out with ease after that..... front one possibly could have used a little more elbow grease but it came out ok.

As for doing it in a day. That would be impossible for me. it's been off the road for one month and a half and ive dne work in the evenings when i can with martins and tb's help. if i was to take a week off and dedicate 9-5 to it i'd guess at about a week.

[henryd]

Cough 'followers' cough.

The trick to removal/insertion of the followers is to use a valve grinding stick....the suckers on the end work vey well for that.

Interestingly, I fully stripped a follower the other night so now know how to fully disassemble and clean one.

The V6 is actualy a pretty straight forward engine to do headgaskets on in reality, about a days job all in (even with swapping manifolds etc over and cleaning)

Sorry

[Gaffers]

Nice one webby

[Marks DTM Calib]

Where did the rust come from?

The head is alloy and the follower Hardened steel

[Gaffers]

Your first cylinder head replacement is always your slowest, it gets easier and faster

[Webby the Bear]

Where did the rust come from?

The head is alloy and the follower Hardened steel

Well I presumed it was rust. As we sprayed penetrant oil and it began to move the penetrating oil (we used loads) turned brown so assumed rust