changing tappets

[mark1gls]

Fingers crossed it all OK, I guess the new tappets just needed to settle in there new home!

[james butler]

so heres a few piccys of the tappet change.
1st strip the top of the engine to expose camshaft and timing belt, i had forgotten how much of a pain the water pump pulley bolts are!

[james butler]

then time up the engine with both cam lobes of no 1 cylinder pointing up, the cam pulley on the inside lining up with the cam cover/cylinder head/ metal backplate of the timing chest

and the no1 cylinder at tdc which can be seen through the bell housing on the gearbox as a little 0 on the flywheel that lines up with the pointer cast into the gearbox.

[james butler]

then carefully take the timing belt off and then crack the cam caps off in sequence, once removed i can then change the tappets!
oh yeah i also found out why i had a leak from the camshaft seal!


cream crackered
so put the new one on and changed the tappets after soaking the new ones overnight in the correct grade oil.



then refit the cam and tighten back down in sequence

[james butler]

after all that put a new rocker gasket on and a new timing belt.
shes all put back together now and purring like a kitten.

really wish i had taken more pictures at the time.
could do a more step by step approach because getting that plastic lower timing cover off is a pain!
every time i forget the Allen bolt in the lower bit of the plastic
trouble is finding the time to keep taking pictures when your covered in oil and grease