Mantav8 and me had a few hours last night removing the exterior bits and some of the pipe work around the engine , started around 11.30 this morning , got stuck in and eventually out it came about 5 oclock :dance:

Wouldn,t like to do that every day :headvswal

The AIV,s and EGR and Carbon Cannister are all coming off , also trying to sort out anything else which is junkable , to simplify things abit :dance:

Give everything a damn good clean then replace :

The Turbo,s

Rear main Crank seal

Rocker cover gaskets

Rear core plugs

VVT springs

Fit the polished plenum and painted timing and throttle covers , replace fuel tubing and vac lines and also a sh1t load of electrical connecters now !! :headvswal

It,s gonna be a busy week :D :D

Glad my engine crane is working well.

Glad my engine crane is working well.

I'm saying nowt! :wack:

Glad my engine crane is working well.

:dance: :dance: :dance: :bow:

Fair play to you lads.

 

I feel pleased with myself when I check the tyre pressures.

Boldy its gonna be looking sweet when its finished mate :) Got me self a plenum to be polished ,and will need fitting!!!!! Daz how you fixed?? :bow: :)

Good luck with the jobs lads, shouldn't be too bad now you've got the lump out, i wouldn't know where to start personally :rofl:

 

Mini's no problem

Zed, think i need a garage first :D

Boldy its gonna be looking sweet when its finished mate :) Got me self a plenum to be polished ,and will need fitting!!!!! Daz how you fixed?? :bow: :)

 

:nono:

:nono:

 

lol, uh oh you're in trouble now micky's spotted that :tongue:

Only trickin Micky :tongue:

Fair play to you lads.

 

I feel pleased with myself when I check the tyre pressures.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Ditto LOL

We got the plenum off , been sorting out wot pipes can be junked , did the VVT springs and yes mine had compressed with age so hopefully that,ll sort the occasional tickover rattle i get .

The worst thing we,ve found was on the o/s turbo which has no shaft play at all just the oil seals buggered but when i stripped it off the oil lines were perfectly clear ( hence the smoking issue ) but the water feed was completely CLOGGED !!! god knows how long it,s had no cooling for the turbo but it doesn,t seemed to effect it at all , i,ll see wot i find on the n/s tomorrow :smash: