Just drill the old suckers out and cut and allen key to fit, thats whats holding my cam gears in place
Yeah that was what I did with Martin's. Used a bit of 4mm hex key that I cut down actually Bit dodgy though. I couldn't get the old pins out, even with lots of heat. Had to drill them. Edit: As above
Really pleased to see it fixed but I don't need any praise, toward the end everyone was contributing suggestions (including AndyMac:zlove but Niall was the one that got off his butt and went over to physically help. Well done Niall, you are really building a well deserved good rep around here And also the biggest praise should go to James Denison (ZX1990) who stuck in there with the problem and helped Craig do all the heavy duty mechanical work... and there has been much work done to fix this one:zlove::zlove::zlove:
Great Results! Great result and plenty of effort put in by all of you. Good thing you didn't bring it to Gympie for the tech day It would NEVER have got done. Fate
While i was there the boys did a plenum pull in under 3 minutes. Very impressed. With problems like this you must have a diagnostic process, vacum is one of the first things i looked for, 4 inches on idle indicated late valve timing.
Thanks to everyone for the input - its been 3 weeks of fault finding which was getting pretty painfull But on the bright side - we can do a plenum pull and swap fuel rails, then put it all back together in 40 minutes We made the mistake of ruling out cam timing early on - who would have thought we could have good compression with the cam that far out! Also goes to show that you should always use a torque wrench - luck we didn't bend anything Only thing we can think of is we had cleaned up the Cam gears prior to installing and torquing them up, so maybe the washer didn't slide without any oil behind it, and bit into the cam gear as we torqued it up.... We are a little bit dodgy about drilling out the pin without destroying the cam - also can't seem to get the old pin out of the other motor, so may be easier to come up and grab those cams of Chrispy.... Good to meet you Niall - will be at that dyno day for sure - got my boost wound up after you left
Not running yet, engine reconditioners stil have my Cam. We cant even get out the other pin off the other motor... so i sacrificed the money to get it done right... As far as the car goes, im just gonna take my time now, confident it will be sweet as... just get everything done and right Exhaust, Interior (Fan and A/C Core came out to replace the loom) some guages maybe an intercooler maybe a radiator.. Gettin a new pod on sat too
waiting on a lower-upper plenum gasket, anywhere have any for sure? coz nissan have to get it from melbourne
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