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Hi Jeff sorry taking time to get back yes cars up and running great had a bit of sad news on 1/12 I found my friend dead in his bed that’s who’s...
Hi Jeff I’ve found it where it came from when taking the head off and taking all the hydraulic lifters out didn’t realise until I was fitting them...
Hi Jeff all has went well so far just the cams to fit and timing to set up on Sunday one thing I did find when I had the head on it’s side was a...
Hi Jeff thanks for the info and the torque settings would you happen to have the torque settings for the cyl head stretch bolts?
Hi what I can’t understand that if the crank bolt wasn’t tightened to the 180 degrees and the crank gear slipped when I set the timing up both...
Hi just found out how my timing slipped it was as you said down to torque the both cam sprockets were torqued ok but the crank was 50 nm then 100...
I can’t remember but I’m just going to replace all 3 to be safe
Hi thanks for the info will look into the cravenspeed part and when I had the vacuum pump off it was certainly turning ok
Hi Jeff thanks for the info when I’m rebuilding I will probably just renew the crank bolt again because there’s probably no way of telling if the...
Hi that would be great if you had those torque settings I don’t think the crank bolt came loose because I put a red paint dot on the bolt and one...
Hi thanks for the reply I replaced all the bolts and torqued them according to auto data seems to have bent all the exhaust valves for some reason
Hi yes I’m in the uk will just do this one again then would have been interesting finding out a bit more about that though
Sorry for being ignorant what’s the difference with the big valve head apart from valve size obviously and does it come off another model ?
Just finished new timing chain and cylinder head decoke rebuilt as per manual replaced all bolts etc done the usual two revolutions of engine re...
Hi hopefully last a bit just need to keep on top of it a bit of preventative maintenance etc, certainly nothing like the last mini I restored many...
I did all the valves lapped them in inlet valves weren’t leaking but I stripped them out cleaned all the carbon lapped them anyway, the head had a...
Hi Dave it has 84k
Hi everyone new to the forum it’s good to see so many people helping each other out with problems. I bought my wife a 2007 cooper s from my friend...