I had all mine welded up and reground, I think they hard weld them?? not 100% on the procedure. All of them were showing significant wear!! Chips and chunks missing.
Ok a bit of a lesson learned, probably jumped a little quickly to worse case scenario (head gasket), although a re torque of the head bolts was needed!!
After a good drive on Saturday I seemed to have a fully sealed and well functioning cooling system. Let it cool checked the the level under...
Yeh I understand! I did clean the bolts and re tapped the tapped holes but I understand what your saying. I just hope the gasket isn't damaged. The new gasket could possibly compress with the first few heat cycles to I guess! Went for a quick drive about half hour didn't notice any excessive...
Hi Gengis, nah they are standard head bolts, not torque to yield bolts i think they are called. Thanks Greg ill keep that in mind if i eventually do have to pull the head. do you have any spec that refers to having to re-torque?? only engine australia where i picked up another gasket from $38...
Hi Greg, nah I didn't re torque the head bolts. Looks like that is the mistake I have made after talking to the engine machinist. I can see some bubbles but not heaps just enough I think to know that it's compression gasses I would think.
He did think that it may be possible to re seal by...
so just when i thought everything was going sweet on my first ever engine rebuild project i seem to have run into a problem!! :bang::bang:
bit of background first.
over the past 2years i have slowly rebuilt 13b-t in my 74 didn't rush too much well i was only going as quick as spare time and...
The screen only comes on at low temps, try taking the temp gauge out, this forces the screen to come on. You can hear the solenoid switch on. If it come on and still no light you have another problem. Also there is another plug near the terminals on the glow screen. this one is disconnected to...
im lucky that engines australia is just around the corner from work, one ebay here they are around the $1400 mark. machining from memory was abokt $2k i think! (can look it up if you need?) but that included removal of old sleeves, installing and machining new ones, head machined, valves, valve...
Recently rebuilt mine, the kits fairly cheap about $900. Did all labour myself except for then machining cylinders and head. Pretty pleased with the result!
That's correct it's an oil catch can which I should have mentioned in the title! I may also post in the diesel section but I was more curious to see if any one had installed one in a bj74 because it will be tight for space.