well after much looking and thinking about it i have decided to have a go at doing valve stem oil seals with the heads on !! god help me!!

 

here are some pics of the progress so far

working on my zed is a piece of piss,the hard part is after---brushing up all the ciggy butts and cleaning the half drunk tea mugs

so where am i up 2 nite then after working all day??

 

ok then main pulley,

 

jam a screwdriver into the hatch by the starter moter to hold the ring gear get a big torque wrench or t bar and scaffold pole!! 27mm socket for the pulley bolt and give it some!!!!! :dance:

 

fabricate a pulley puller like i did and pull that sucker off!!

 

take off the rest of the timing covers!!

 

put stopper bolt in tensioner and remove the tensioner and timing belt!!

 

remove camshaft pulley, im doing one piston at a time so i only pulled off 2 pulleys from the same side for now!!

 

remove camshaft, dont mix up the bearings!!

 

check that the other cams have relaxed and that all valves are up & refit main pulley bolt,

caerfully turn crankshaft so that it turns a full 360 degrees with no problems dont forget to pull the sparkplugs,

 

put screwdriver in piston hole number 1 and turn crank 2 find top dead centre of piston!!

 

thats all i did 2nite folks, 2mos must fabricate a valve compressor to work from the top, should be fun!!

and heres the rest of the pics :tongue:

and heres the rest of the pics :tongue:

 

 

You will have it running by Friday !! :p

 

Valve stem oil seals on there way mate.

 

Alan......

cheers alan, lets hope i can get the damn seals out!!

 

and dont drop a valve down the piston LOL!!

well no rest for the wicked!!

 

just pulled all the stem seals from cylinder 1!!

 

fabricated a spring compression tool that bolts to the top of the head and hey presto away you go!! :tongue:

 

well im not blowing my own horn here cos i gotta get the damn things back in!! and this is the tricky part!! not the seals but the bloody collets!!

 

is there an eisier way to get the seals out rather than use a flipping long nosed pliers ??

 

i noticed that the valves were quite slack on the seals dont know if there meant to be tighter or what!!

 

any way heres the pics for you!! ;)

 

i must also make a drift to hammer the new seals back in place ( thanks alan for the seals :dance: )

Nice one mate, you're making good progress! From what I remember after doing a Renault engine, the seals were fairly tight on the valve stem. There should be a little spring around the top of the seal, or at least there was on the Renault engine.

Have you got any pics of the seal?

 

Shaun

Oh yeah, I don't suppose you've had chance to talk to that guy who works in the tyre place have you? My back tyres are illegal!

 

Cheers,

Shaun

hi shaun,

did call him but he's gone to bulgaria for a week i think it was, will call him for ya when he comes back,

 

yeah the spring round the seal, on the first seal i took out the spring came off when i took it out, lost it in the head somwhere never to be seen again DOH!!!

yeah the spring round the seal, on the first seal i took out the spring came off when i took it out, lost it in the head somwhere never to be seen again DOH!!!

 

:eek:

 

What u gonna do bout that??

 

Have you not got a magnetic stick u could use :confused:

wey hey!! good progress!!

 

made a drift to replace the seals back in place and i've found the missing spring from the top of the oil seal!!

 

replaced the springs, collets and lifters from cyl no1, what a nightmare getting those collets in lol!! ant tips fellas???

 

anyway moved onto cyl 3 now removed springs and seals from the intake valves!!

 

its going well so far :dance:

wey hey!! good progress!!

 

made a drift to replace the seals back in place and i've found the missing spring from the top of the oil seal!!

 

replaced the springs, collets and lifters from cyl no1, what a nightmare getting those collets in lol!! ant tips fellas???

 

anyway moved onto cyl 3 now removed springs and seals from the intake valves!!

 

its going well so far :dance:

 

:smash: Bit of this...bit of that :smash:

 

 

Good work fella

wey hey!! good progress!!

 

made a drift to replace the seals back in place and i've found the missing spring from the top of the oil seal!!

 

replaced the springs, collets and lifters from cyl no1, what a nightmare getting those collets in lol!! ant tips fellas???

 

anyway moved onto cyl 3 now removed springs and seals from the intake valves!!

 

its going well so far :dance:

 

big blob of grease on the collets mate-----they stick to the valve and dont move untill you release tensioner :) :)

well at last i have fitted all my valve stem oil seals, but had to make a new type of spring compressor, the one i made was easy to use and helped a lot in removing and replacing the collets!!

 

i just hope to hell that i havent hammerd the seals home too hard if thats possible!! they look a wee bit squashed :rolleyes:

 

here are the pics of the new commpressor i have made!!

well at last i have fitted all my valve stem oil seals, but had to make a new type of spring compressor, the one i made was easy to use and helped a lot in removing and replacing the collets!!

 

i just hope to hell that i havent hammerd the seals home too hard if thats possible!! they look a wee bit squashed :rolleyes:

 

here are the pics of the new commpressor i have made!!

 

Get a patent number on that tool at once !! ;)

 

Alan......

well well!! finished with the girlfriend lastnight so what did i doo??

 

thats right straight into the arms of my beloved zed and worked on her till 2:30 am this morning phew!!

 

well worth the effort dont you think!!

 

all is left now is cambelt covers, radiator, polish my water pipes, and starter motor!!

Nice 1! It looks really good.

 

Glad to see you've got your priorities right ;)

Nice 1! It looks really good.

 

Glad to see you've got your priorities right ;)

 

Oh yeah, I got some tyres for my Zed from your contact, so I'm legal again! Cheers m8y :)

nice one shaun i hope to be on the road too soon cross fingers!! :p