Our "New to Us" Winnie

[Keith Morris]

Wouldn't it be more time efficient, less worry, less $$$$ while you did the lighter things if you took it into a good repair shop to have it done. They might even let you camp up in their yard. :D :D

"tanks" here Dot,
You are missing the point. Terry enjoys playing with motors and doing things with spanners and wires.
Keith.

[Dot]

10......9......8......7..........

Well !!!

[T1 Terry]

10......9......8......7..........

Well !!!

A hole in the ground you can draw water from, or oil ....... What does this have to do with the discussion

T1 Terry

[T1 Terry]

Decided the quickest way to get it back on the road was just to grind some off the tops of the valve stems ..... easy enough and the rocker all look even now .... the true test will be when the cams go back in and I can do a compression test

T1 Terry

[supersparky]

Yeah well, that's one way to do it. How did you manage to grind the stems and keep it all square?

[jon_d]

Aren't they hardened? How deep is the hardening?

[T1 Terry]

OK, so it was a wind up After setting it up over a few days, I thought I'd get a better bite than that .....

The problem is the hydraulic lifters. I'm guessing here, but I think the people who remanufactured these heads, decided to cheapen out and just put the lifters in a parts cleaner rather than fit new ones.
So far I have stripped out and reassembled 3 of them, the night caught me so the 4th one is stripped out and in the cleaning bath (Ice Cream container supplied by Bruce and pressure pack cans of degreaser from Super Cheap) I bought some air tool oil from the spares place down the road to use as the priming fluid when reassembling them.
Each lifter has left enough black grit in the container to cover the bottom of the 4 ltr plastic ice cream bucket. It takes 4 good blasts with the degreaser to actually find the bottom of the lifter bucket, the bleed hole that the ball bearing seals was blocked in each one so far, as was the oiler hole to the rocker through the top of the lifter .... lucky it's overhead cam, so plenty of oil splash to keep everything lubricated.

I had to crush the lifter in a vice, hitting the vice winder end with a block hammer each 1/4 turn to get the lifter to compress so I could pry the collar off. They claim they can not be serviced because of the locking collar .... well, maybe for American mechanics and those that just know how to remove and replace, but with a bit of effort, the locking collar can be removed and crimped back on once the lifter has been cleaned and assembled.
With a bit of luck, I should have them all cleaned and back in tomorrow ready for a compression test.

Lots easier than taking the heads off Old mechanics know how diagnose and how to fix stuff, the new breed just seem to know how to get computer scan codes and replace stuff.
Who ever poured all the $$ into this engine and still had issues, would be really p*ssed to find out how simple the fix actually was

T1 Terry

[BruceS]

Sure is/was a win Terry.
Before you came clean I was going to see if you wanted to have a lend of my 9" angle grinder for them those there stems!!!
We all have our fingers crossed for you. You do deserve a bit of luck!
I knew I kept all those empty ice cream containers for a reason!

[jon_d]

OK, so it was a wind up After setting it up over a few days, I thought I'd get a better bite than that .....

You know what, after 10 plus years of watching you patch things up to get to some where; nothing really surprises me any more.

So, in all honesty, I was just accepting it as another patch up job.

[supersparky]

It will be interesting to see how the compression test goes, when you get it all back together. I'm hoping for your sake all the exhaust valves still seal ok.
Good luck.