This Is Where The Fun Begins...

[PRY4SNO]

[MmmBoost]

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Got your text yesterday but didn't have a chance to reply.

Looks awesome! I'm not used to seeing an inline block with 5 holes :P That's something i could get used to........

[R_Ethug]

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cool!

[All_Euro]

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What's your plan of attack?

[PRY4SNO]

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What's your plan of attack?

Get my butt in gear and this stuff installed. :P







So far so good, but found more carnage... does this mean that now I need a new distributor?

[PRY4SNO]

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Lots of time has passed, with lots of hiccups along the way. Still, some progress has been made and it won't be too long before I'm rolling again.

Monty (All_Euro) came by to help with the head and whatever else we could get to but unfortunately he was sucked into my vortex of doom. We spent (read: wasted) most of a day trying to find a deep 14mm 12pt socket for the ARP head studs. After a trip to Cdn. Tire, Home Depot, and an hour rifling through loose sockets in bins at sketchy pawn shop came up short, we went to Sears only to find that they had nothing. Then he figured out it was a 1/2" size... go figure! Made in USA = SAE! haha. So off to another Sears location, of course way across town, and we were in business. The head went on nice and easy.





Later I tried to snug the valve cover on tight and f'd up big by setting the torque wrench to 11ft/# instead of 11Nm. OOPS!! Ended up yielding a bolt and stripping two bolt holes. Nothing a helicoil kit couldn't fix, and with a little BTDT (been there done that) advice from Mike (mikekrus) I was catching some traction again.

Wasn't until I went to fit the main timing belt cover ahead of reinstalling the new TB kit that I realized I completely forgot about it during the head install. So because I dropped the ball none of the other covers (3 total) will fit unless I remove the head, and I'm completely disinterested in doing so. Principally because I'll need more ARP thread dope and don't feel like chasing my tail any more unless ABSOLUTELY necessary. So, I'm going to rock out with no covers, hot rod steez...

All the timing belt components went on smooth, only snag there is the belt appears loose (two people mentioned as much) even though it's well within the Bentley manual spec of a 180* twist between the water pump and tensioner roller. Once the motor's back in the car I'll inspect further, as I have yet to torque the crank bolt down with the 328ft/# (+ 180* turn) required.







Moving along after putting in the new rear main seal, the next task was to install the clutch and flywheel before reinstalling the motor. Wouldn't you know it, the fancy ARP FW bolts I bought at twice the price won't fit. It's not that they don't, because they do... until you go to fit in the 8th and final one. No matter which hole you leave for last or how loose you install all eight before snugging them down, the final bolt gets held up on the raised shoulder. What sucks is that I spent a couple hours chasing the threads in the crank snout before realizing it was a clearance issue and not trapped debris.






After a phone call to 034 the best they could suggest was to use a drill to notch the final flywheel bolt hole ever so slightly & gain the clearance. Far too ghetto for this guy. So with any luck Jordan can source new OEM bolts before I fly out for work.

[Mattie]

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Does the flywheel have a timing mark on it? if so then the flywheel will only bolt up to the crank 1 way.
I had the same thing happen with the vr6 and one of the bolts on the crank and flywheel were offset 1mm or so.

[PRY4SNO]

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Yeah it does, there's a mark that says "0" & not too far away one says "12."

That's why I showed the double check procedure I used with the caliper to find the master bolt hole as it's farther away from the rest. It really is child proof!

Problem wasn't with the FW, as the old OEM (stretch) bolts go in nicely since they lack the reinforced shoulder seen on the ARP bolts. My theory is that shoulders cause the FW to drift and won't line up properly by the time the 8th and final bolt gets snugged down.

Of course, Jordan comes to the rescue at half the cost vs Southrape.

[BlakMarketClash]

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Nice work dude! I would order longer bolts and machine my own torque plate. Much easier and more piece of mind!

[All_Euro]

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Nice to see the valve cover and other shiny bits on. How's the FW comming?

[PRY4SNO]

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Mike was kind enough to lend me his clutch alignment tool, but he'd lent it out already. Just so happens that guy is building a 3L 2860R b5s4 in his garage... some very serious car pr0n going on, and just blocks from my place! Since his friend needed the tool back right away, I was under the gun to perform; figure my first clutch, fw & pp install in under 45 minutes is fairly respectable?

The next night my dad and I flanged up the motor in the car and just have a few more trans bolts and some work to do with the mounts before I can pull the engine hoist and drop the car on its wheels. I'd like to have that accomplished before I fly out this Sunday afternoon.

[PRY4SNO]

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She lives!

Except the oil pressure is buried in the right hand side of the gauge, past 5 bar, waaaaaay too high. Slight amount of oil weeping around the oil pump. Idle is laboured.

That is all.

[All_Euro]

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She lives!

Except the oil pressure is buried in the right hand side of the gauge, past 5 bar...

Pedal to the metal... the oil pressure will come down

[R_Ethug]

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sick as ****!

[PRY4SNO]

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Problem solved, had the wires reversed on the oil pressure gauge sender.

Couple last things to reattach (IE horn, bumper, headlights) but she's basically finished!