JaiKai

This is only the rough shape as more excavation is to be done. Type 1 layer then reinforcement rebar to be placed down too.

Finaly got a 1/2" spanner and the first turbo is fully off. Problem i've got now is the drivers side one is tighter and i've no room to move the spanner. I'll likely have to hoist the engine up again, remove the stand and try get at them with it off the stand.

Jobs nowhere near done, this is just an outline.

End of day one and the services pipes are laid and main ground work complete. Builders being builders; they completely put the pipes in the wrong place so they will be back tomorrow to dig a few of them up to get them repositioned into the proper places.

Not bad , i'm at work and being sneaky watching the progress.

Finaly the day arrives; ground work has started on the garage foundation.

You need to put a link up for that :)

Does it come in 99 Spec ?

Hope it's at least a 13 tog or higher. ;)

Lots of snow or a large duvet?

Colour scheme on this build is staying the same as the last so I stuck the purple belt and cam covers on. Depends how they clean up I might use these or I was thinking about just stripping the cam covers that I had on this engine in the blast cabinet then getting them redone in a fresh purple paint. Few area on the paint i'm not happy with so these might get overhauled.

So here comes my next issue although I think it was likely just a bad seal on the rocker covers. On one side there was a fair amount of oil above the spark plugs, is this normal ? Everything else looks fairly clean.

A really rusty bolt, hopefully it comes off easily.

Back to my engine cleanup progress today and managed to get that snapped alan key head out. After trying many various things it came out using a bit of sparky tape stuck to my finger :) Managed to get the water pipes out too so I can give the whole area a clean. Looking at the area I thing there has been a previous water leak as many of the bolts are in bad shape. Also a rusty looking silicon has been used and I can see it on the water pump too.

Now turned on :)

Thought this was a worthy post for everyone to see. [video=youtube_share;Xk2mHIebvVk]https://youtu.be/Xk2mHIebvVk

Lock and Load :)

Yeh, Took a while to realise but vBulletin have changed the way the search functions work and it actually reversed the buttons.

ok, Just to confuse the crap out of everyone there has been a re-jig of the top forum menu. Specifically the Latest Posts and Todays posts buttons. After the update the functionality of these changed which we cant go back to so to make things clearer I've renamed one of the buttons and swapped it round with the other. Now we have : 'Latest posts' - This show everything in the last 7 days. 'Unread Posts' - This shows all threads that you have not yet viewed. 'Mark as read' - This clears the above option so that everything is marked as read. Bit of change but i'm sure we will all get used to it and it actually works better.

Thanks all, It was a fairly good day, working in the garage with my zed for the first part then home for a fish supper and beer for the last.

I can understand that as its a pain with the engine out too. How the hell do you get to the bolts in the inner corner.

Here is another stuck bolt above the front water pipes. Used an alan key for this and a spanner but the end snapped and now I have a stuck alan key end in the bolt.

Lastly for the turbo's here is the picture of those nasty bolts. I can only get into them with a small 13mm spanner and they just wont budge. I have bent up the metal tabs but they still wont move.

Removing the lower water pipe to expose the Thermostat showed very sludgy looking sealant. Is this OEM as its a right mess ?

Work on the engine strip down started today which presented me with a few issues. Firstly found a few areas of corrosion on the water pipes at the back so they need replaced, I managed to get an alan key snapped in the front water pipes due to a seized bolt and after I attempted to take the turbo's off the bolts on them are also seized. Not a good start and not sure how to get them off or how to get to the bolts at the back.