I’ve recently replaced my head gasket on my overheated engine, the head was refurbed including guides and stem seals, a leak down test on the bottom showed excellent sealing, the compression is good and it started first time.

So the issue, when cold the car isles and drives with no smoke, as soon ...

Just an overdue update for those who offered assistance, refurbed the head, rebuilt and fired up first time

Now have a smoking issue when warm, so into the next issue

Ok so more progress!

After another compression test there was very little change so the head came off

I was VERY surprised and pleased with the health of the engine, no lip or scoring on any of the bores, no cracks between the cylinders, leak down test on the bores saw very little drop even after ...

Ok so, some good news, after stripping and cleaning the sump and oil pump, inspected the big end, crank main, and camshaft bearing, all like new 👍

Cleaned out all galleries and turned over and hey presto, full oil pressure with crystal clear oil coming through everywhere!

Next up, let’s get it ...

Yea the oil looked brand new on the dipstick but deeper in it was emulsified and nasty and that obviously been sucked up into the galleries when I’ve been turning it over, it was significantly full of fuel where they’d been trying to start it over and over too so that didn’t help!

So I checked the oil pressure first thing, removed the oil pressure sensor and turned over to visually check, the gallery was blocked up with emulsified gunk and nothing came out at all on turnover

So I dropped the sump and the oil was nasty and full of hunk, removed the oil pump and stripped and ...

Maybe il buy one then

Yea throttle wide open mate

Il put the plugs back in tomorrow and double check but I think there was your standard resistance at TDC

Thanks for the response Blakey!

All timing marks line up perfectly and as the timing marks are on the flywheel and cam shaft, I don’t see how the engine could be 180 degrees out? Although it’s very possible I’ve overlooked something, The distributor also was timed up what I believe to be correct ...

Ok so long story short, I bought a non runner as a project, had not run for a year or so, timing was out so I’ve changed the timing belt and water pump, have double, triple etc checked the timing and it’s spot on, so, the problem.

Tried a first start to no avail, getting fuel to carb and into bores ...