16-08-2016, 10:26 PM
Today started off great and then turned into a nightmare!
All went well with putting the final lot on, Sump, exhaust, rocker cover, bottom engine mount, replacement engine mount and spark plugs.
Went to look for my Spark plug cover, and its fuckin walked or been thrown out!! That was the start of things!
Timing belt, well here is the night mare of all night mares. I did manage to get that sorted with the help of my mum funny enough, it is a bastard of a job that one. We managed to get the thing set too adjustment wise too! All looked to be going well, My dad came out from his bit daily nap, and had a check of the belt to see if all is ok. Which it was, thank f*ck! But things went tits up from here onwards, When we came around to fitting the crank pulley the key had snapped off, the cog! Now I don't know if that was already broken off who knows, it was still in the crank pulley! I did my best to get the thing to sit where it was. Then disaster struck!! When we came to tighten and torque the bottom pulley, for some reason it had clicked off sooner rather than later, we were a little worried about that, and we were right to have to be. The engine wouldn't move after a turn or so! My dad said there is something stopping this. i whipped off the spark plugs to see what the story was with the pistons, and removed the rear timing belt cover, to see if things had gone tits up there. The top end sees ok, but what happened is the bottom end had moved and jumped about 8 teeth, with the torque setting set on the torque wrench.
i un done the timing belt and reset the top end, well double checked it, and locked the fucker off.
We removed the bottom pulley, and that's when we found out that the bottom end had moved.
What caused it to happen? Well we worked that problem and discovered that the PG1 locking tool, that locks the flywheel wasn't locking properly! After we set the full lot back up, i researched why this happened, and it turns out that i have been sold the wrong tool, this is fault due to laser tools miss labelling the PG1 tool.
The one i have been sold is for locking the engine with gearbox removed, i should have been giving the one to lock the flywheel from the starter side. The two tools do look very similar and the same thing did happen to some one else.
So i have proper one on order now, So Christ knows how my dad removed the crank pulley bolt with the wrong locking tool, is beyond me, but the car was in gear too.
So with the key snapping off the cog, and the wrong tool, i am at a stand still again on that side of things. Until replacement parts come.
I can only do a electrical repair, and maybe have a look at the top hose side, and that's as far as it goes.
I was hoping that i could have had the timing side sorted out and have the car back on its 4 wheels tomorrow.
We might have even had the car started too on Saturday, but we will have to see again!
All went well with putting the final lot on, Sump, exhaust, rocker cover, bottom engine mount, replacement engine mount and spark plugs.
Went to look for my Spark plug cover, and its fuckin walked or been thrown out!! That was the start of things!
Timing belt, well here is the night mare of all night mares. I did manage to get that sorted with the help of my mum funny enough, it is a bastard of a job that one. We managed to get the thing set too adjustment wise too! All looked to be going well, My dad came out from his bit daily nap, and had a check of the belt to see if all is ok. Which it was, thank f*ck! But things went tits up from here onwards, When we came around to fitting the crank pulley the key had snapped off, the cog! Now I don't know if that was already broken off who knows, it was still in the crank pulley! I did my best to get the thing to sit where it was. Then disaster struck!! When we came to tighten and torque the bottom pulley, for some reason it had clicked off sooner rather than later, we were a little worried about that, and we were right to have to be. The engine wouldn't move after a turn or so! My dad said there is something stopping this. i whipped off the spark plugs to see what the story was with the pistons, and removed the rear timing belt cover, to see if things had gone tits up there. The top end sees ok, but what happened is the bottom end had moved and jumped about 8 teeth, with the torque setting set on the torque wrench.
i un done the timing belt and reset the top end, well double checked it, and locked the fucker off.
We removed the bottom pulley, and that's when we found out that the bottom end had moved.
What caused it to happen? Well we worked that problem and discovered that the PG1 locking tool, that locks the flywheel wasn't locking properly! After we set the full lot back up, i researched why this happened, and it turns out that i have been sold the wrong tool, this is fault due to laser tools miss labelling the PG1 tool.
The one i have been sold is for locking the engine with gearbox removed, i should have been giving the one to lock the flywheel from the starter side. The two tools do look very similar and the same thing did happen to some one else.
So i have proper one on order now, So Christ knows how my dad removed the crank pulley bolt with the wrong locking tool, is beyond me, but the car was in gear too.
So with the key snapping off the cog, and the wrong tool, i am at a stand still again on that side of things. Until replacement parts come.
I can only do a electrical repair, and maybe have a look at the top hose side, and that's as far as it goes.
I was hoping that i could have had the timing side sorted out and have the car back on its 4 wheels tomorrow.
We might have even had the car started too on Saturday, but we will have to see again!