when you say the y clamps, I just left the full extension of pipes up to the outlets on and drop the motor in then put the bottom shrouds on with the clips on them.
Another day in paradise! There's nothing quite like a sunny Winter's day to potter about getting greasy.
Today saw the heads go on, fairly straightforward, and the shrouding and inlet manifolds on.
I broke out the Copper-Eze for the head to barrel joint and the head bolt threads. Also used some rubber grease on the oil tube o-rings, just to ease their entry! (OoEr Matron!) All torqued up nicely and ready for work.
The shrouding is one of those jobs that makes you wonder what sort of mind altering substances were used by the designers, but I'm getting the hang of it now. I seemed to find all of the little M5 bolts and their matching orifices. So far so good.
All buttoned up with a new oil filter and a sumpful of cheap oil that I can use for a short time then recycle. I always reckon that when the motor's been opened up, it's a good move to flush it all through then refill with some good stuff. Any scunge I missed after cleaning up after the honing should also get flushed out, not that there should be any.
A couple of minutes with a belt around the oil pump pulley, a multimeter on the oil pressure switch and Ryobi-San on high speed saw the oil circulated and up to pressure quite painlessly. Even better, so far, no leaks!
So tomorrow will see me fitting the timing belts and front fan housing and fan. Then I'll be hoisting the beast up for ease of access and installing the exhaust manifolds . Another fun job. And I'm really not looking forward to getting at the Y-piece clamps when the time comes!
Progress is a wonderful thing!
Cheers for now. Pottsy
Getting old Shane...... it takes half a day to do something that took half an hour, 30 years ago.How on earth do you manage to get so much done so quickly. Even if I manage to find the time and have the parts to fix something I generally spend 95% of the time searching for bits that were there .... 30seconds ago
I'm talking about the two forward connections from the Y to the "engine to Y" (or extension) pipes. To remove and replace the gearbox & engine complete, the y pipe needs to come off and back on with it all in situ, Those two clamps have to be the most inaccessible bastards I've ever met!when you say the y clamps, I just left the full extension of pipes up to the outlets on and drop the motor in then put the bottom shrouds on with the clips on them.
There was a separate discussion of clutch cables in another thread and a recommendation of TGA Cables in Croydon (eastern suburbs of Melbourne). In the absence of the equipment and skills set out above, I am due to send TGA my broken cable for re-manufacture. Apparently they do a good job - I will report the outcome.I'll concur with you on those clamps, they are a swine. I have to replace the 3 into one plastic connector pipe for the LHM return and that's going to be a back buster. Thinking of making it up in copper pipe so it can take more stress, even though there shouldn't be any. I've also been trying to get the clutch cable to behave properly, bought a replacement off Daniel in Germany and after taking the old one off and hooking up the new one realised it was way too long (LHD version). Don't know where to find a replacement RHD one. Chevronics don't even have them.
Is that weight with the gearbox on? I thought i'd carried them around in the past .... but no way. Maybe I'm thinking the 2cv motor. Its very easy to carry around.This is me, answering the questions no-one really ever asked!
The engine is now re-ringed, re-belted, re-times, re-assembled and weighed!
Before you look at the photo, try and guess how much a complete 1220 motor weighs? If you're anything like me, you're probably wrong!
Anyway, that's stage 1 compete. Stage 2 is sorting out the dodgy 3rd gear synchro and noisy bearings in the box of cogness.
Stage 3 will be very messy when I get out the de-greaser and pressure washer for the engine bay so I can sort out the return lines in a clean environment.
And stage 4 will be weaselling all the sorted mechanical goodness back in the cavernous (!) engine bay. Implicit to all this is that I have success in stages 2 and 3, and can find all the little bags I put bolts and stuff in!
So there yez have it. Looking like Lockdown 6.2 is imminent, not to mention curfews, so I guess I'm going to have to do this to save my sanity!
Cheers, Pottsy
Will the ravening hordes feast on the defenders or will the cavalry arrive in time with condiments? These, and other life changing questions, answered anon.