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[JamesV6CDX]

Yesterday and Sunday evenings, I finished off rebuilding the Veccy cylinder head.

16 x brand new valves lapped and fitted (inlet and exhaust)
16 x new valve stem seals
16 x Follwers fully primed
Camshafts fitted
Everything clean as a whistle.

I did the overnight paraffin test (before fitting cams!), and it didn't seem to loose any. Implying the valve seatings are good.

I'm really pleased I had a go at this myself, and feel I've learned an awful lot. It will be some sense of achievement if this car runs...!

I've also fitted the inlet manifold, and the LPG injectors are back on.  

Tomorrow my intention is to put the head back on the car, and rebuild it all back up and get it running.

Hopefully by this time tomorrow, I'll have a veccy running on 4 cylinders instead of 3

Fingers crossed!!

[Markie]

finers crossed indeed - impressive timescale   - and if all is well, are you keeping it?

[Dazzler]

Well done James, you sure are a quick/keen worker. Best of luck

[JamesV6CDX]

At the moment, I'm in 2 x minds about keeping it. The chances are, I most probably will, especially with such cheap running costs on LPG. And it should be reliable after all that work. And I genuinely like driving it.

Also, I think I've fixed the no3 injector problem. I found a wire, with a part of it being in a VERY poor state, in the cable tray.. it will be soldered and heatshrinked...

[razzo]

Nice one James well done mate

[Golfbuddy]

Out of interest, how many hours has this taken so far. I mean removing engine, dismantling rebuilding and eventual refitting in vehicle. Would be interesting to compare this to what a garage would charge and how long they would take although I appreciate that they wouldn't take the care that you have to get it spot on.

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Well done James.. [smiley=beer.gif]

[JamesV6CDX]

I didn't remove the engine - just the cylinder head.

It took a leasurely afternoon to remove the head carefully, labelling LPG stuff as I went.

It took a leasurely evening to remove all the old valves, completely strip the head and get the head squeaky clean.

Then, in terms of re-building the head, it took me just under 12 mins per valve, which includes valve lapping, stem seal fitting, and then fitting the spring/seats/collets. So times that by 16 = 3.2 hours to rebuild the head in total.

Then I estimate a leisurely day to get the head, timing belt, manifolds etc etc refitted.

[CaptainZok]

Well done James your a star.

[Baron Von Spongebob]

Dont forget the 5 hours for tea and choccy biscuit breaks and the bacon buttie breaks..

[JamesV6CDX]

Well done James your a star.

I was worried about doing it - the general perception of jobs like this, seems to be that it's difficult and specialist work.

Reality is, if you are methodical, patient, and take your time and invest in the right tools, it can be done by anyone.

[Markie]

Well done James your a star.

I was worried about doing it - the general perception of jobs like this, seems to be that it's difficult and specialist work.

Reality is, if you are methodical, patient, and take your time and invest in the right tools, it can be done by anyone.

and yours was probably a wee bit more time consuming with the lpg kit too  

[JamesV6CDX]

Well done James your a star.

I was worried about doing it - the general perception of jobs like this, seems to be that it's difficult and specialist work.

Reality is, if you are methodical, patient, and take your time and invest in the right tools, it can be done by anyone.

and yours was probably a wee bit more time consuming with the lpg kit too  

Not as much as you'd think...

4 x LPG hoses to remove from injectors
2 x LPG ECU connectors
4 x Injector connectors
Couple of extra coolant hoses and Vacc pipes.
1 x LPG injector had to be removed to seperate inlet manifold from cylinder head.

Must be honest though, an X20XE Omega is much easier to work on than the Veccy. Access is crap to some things.. the crank pulley was a b@stard to remove..

[JamesV6CDX]

May I add - the whole engine mounting has to come off on the drivers side, just to change the Aux belt!!

[CaptainZok]

May I add - the whole engine mounting has to come off on the drivers side, just to change the Aux belt!!

Scrap it and get an Omega.