george.bryant

So how do I get that crank pulley off and the what about the fan?

Hey guys i've been going through the annoying process of chaing my headgasket incase you didnt know. Everything has gone good except for something that I was told has a pretty high chance of happening... The timing chain slipped a tooth and i couldnt get the cam sprocket to fit to the cam properly as the chain wasnt allowing me enough slack. I got annoyed so i checked my chain wedge and it was a bit lose. Next thing I know i'm like 3 links shorter...then more...Then the tensioner had came lose and the arc or the chain wasnt there I knew straight away that the chain had slipped so I just let it. Its being help up again now but it fairly short compared to before. Obviously I have the get the front cover off and get everything realigned. What exactly needs to be done to remove it? At the moment my radiator, distributor and oil pump are still attached so I'll take them off, the fan is also attached so how do I go about getting it off. WIll the crank pulley be in the way, it looks to me astho it will be. How do i remedy this? Regards, George

Thanks for that

i think i have a peice of gasket missing as i blew my old radiator a few months and the car overheated really bad

ill check it for warpage when i get it out later.

if its warped, can i get it planed or something?

on he whole estimated speed check thing, are they allowed to do a pace check? thats what they do here in nz

my r30s air con never worked, my r31s aircon was like a fridge!! r30 aircon stuff got ripped out a few months ago.

yes please find me the diamensions, i shall be making it tomorrow. how do i take the chain off? just undo the cam gear and ease it off with that with graet difficulty?

oh the water has been leaking for months i just never knew where from. but its #1 cyl between the head and block on the outter side of the water jacket

did a comp test yesterady and it came back with 120 on all 6 which was the same as a few months ago. i'm in the process of getting the head off the change the gasket. can someone tell me how to get the chain off and what i need to stop it from falling down into the front cover and such.

How do i remove the timing chain from the head on my l20et? I remember needing something to hold up the chain when the head is off from the block. Photos appreciated Regards, George

turps

thats what it sounds like it coming up when u wash it? old polish

Too make matters worst, last night after i got everything back together and went for a drive to test it out, it seemed to be running ok. Driving down the motorway i hit 105 and hear something in the back go clunk (not a big clunk but enough to notice it, and sounded like a tool falling off and hitting the ground [but i wasnt using a tool or doing anything to the diff]). It got pretty bad but only at 1550 rpm to 2150rpm on coasting, it was making this noise like a a broken gear, kinda like a clock ticking but also clunking it was pretty mild. Anyway i needed my vehicle so had to keep driving and couldnt really just stop on the motor way. I drove 15 km to SuperCheap Auto spares to get a new spark plug and lead for #6. As i was pulling into their carpark it started to misfire and was heating up pretty bad. Looked in the coolant bottle and it was pretty gross looking in there. Was contaminated with oil about 10%. I went and got the lead and plug, i put the lead on and drove home. It was a horrible drive, i was trying not to hit boost at all but i hit it once and big cloud of white smoke shot out the back. I thought "there goes the head gasket". The rest of the drive for about 13km involved horrible noises coming from the rear end (the ticking clunk noise) and and feeling insane amounts of heat coming throught he firewall and my heater system. I pulled into the garage and gave it a little rev and there i saw the white looking steamy **** again. which i experience at pretty much the same time last year on this same motor. I've learnt alot since then and reckon i could change the gasket and i probly should as about 4-5months ago i sealed a leak with a chemiweld radiator additive as when my old radiator was in the process of blowing up, it caused a water leake between the head and the block and water was spraying out between the two. Is it worth changing the gasket? I reckon it is since i cannot afford a new motor at the moment. I have a spare head but i need to get it crack tested, and ive taken out the cam so i need to know how to put that back in and align everything up. The thing that daunts me with taking the head off my motor is that I do not know how to get the timing chain off correctly, or set its timing again. And im freaked out that I wont be able to get it running or something stupid will happen, or that ill get it all back together and itll overheat and blow a gasket again. I know how much of a bitch it is to get the manifolds off these motors (L20et) but i'm on holidays for 2 weeks and i have another car to use so i was thinking id give it a go. So i was wondering what you guys think? And was hoping you'd all be willing to advice me on what i need to do. Regards, George __________________

Too make matters worst, last night after i got everything back together and went for a drive to test it out, it seemed to be running ok. Driving down the motorway i hit 105 and hear something in the back go clunk (not a big clunk but enough to notice it, and sounded like a tool falling off and hitting the ground [but i wasnt using a tool or doing anything to the diff]). It got pretty bad but only at 1550 rpm to 2150rpm on coasting, it was making this noise like a a broken gear, kinda like a clock ticking but also clunking it was pretty mild. Anyway i needed my vehicle so had to keep driving and couldnt really just stop on the motor way. I drove 15 km to SuperCheap Auto spares to get a new spark plug and lead for #6. As i was pulling into their carpark it started to misfire and was heating up pretty bad. Looked in the coolant bottle and it was pretty gross looking in there. Was contaminated with oil about 10%. I went and got the lead and plug, i put the lead on and drove home. It was a horrible drive, i was trying not to hit boost at all but i hit it once and big cloud of white smoke shot out the back. I thought "there goes the head gasket". The rest of the drive for about 13km involved horrible noises coming from the rear end (the ticking clunk noise) and and feeling insane amounts of heat coming throught he firewall and my heater system. I pulled into the garage and gave it a little rev and there i saw the white looking steamy shit again. which i experience at pretty much the same time last year on this same motor. I've learnt alot since then and reckon i could change the gasket and i probly should as about 4-5months ago i sealed a leak with a chemiweld radiator additive as when my old radiator was in the process of blowing up, it caused a water leake between the head and the block and water was spraying out between the two. Is it worth changing the gasket? I reckon it is since i cannot afford a new motor at the moment. I have a spare head but i need to get it crack tested, and ive taken out the cam so i need to know how to put that back in and align everything up. The thing that daunts me with taking the head off my motor is that I do not know how to get the timing chain off correctly, or set its timing again. And im freaked out that I wont be able to get it running or something stupid will happen, or that ill get it all back together and itll overheat and blow a gasket again. I know how much of a bitch it is to get the manifolds off these motors (L20et) but i'm on holidays for 2 weeks and i have another car to use so i was thinking id give it a go. So i was wondering what you guys think? And was hoping you'd all be willing to advice me on what i need to do. Regards, George

whats wrong with runnning more boost? the more the better!

k&n all da way:-P

Recently my car has started doing some funny stuff. Its running pretty rough on startup, kinda feels like its missing or something. And on acceleration it stumbles kinda and feels like a subaru. I've checked the spark plugs and they were ok except for #6 which had quite a bit of oil build up on it and smelt like unburnt fuel. I cleaned them all to see if that was the problem. Put them back in car and started it and it ran good for about 1 minute then started doing its stumbly thing at idle... I had a play with the ignition timing aswell to try to see if i could set it straight, found a good setting for timing with the 10psi that i run so thats ok. But after driving that car for about 20 minutes it just got even more stumbly, but on boost you dont even notice it. I put a new distributor cap on yesterday aswell. the car is also drinking water slowly. Using about 400ml a day (i just topped it up with more or shell's coolguard). My lead are about 4 months old, one day i noticed they were leaking spark so i taped them up and i never noticed it again. Is the problem that i need new leads? Or what. I used to get a vacuum or between 17-18 at idle. Now its at like 14-16. Thats why i set the ignition timing. I dont know what to do. I have a feeling headgasket might be cracked somewhere as my water looked very mildly contaminated but my oil looks fine (its about 3 months old). Help.... Regards, George.

Recently my car has started doing some funny stuff. Its running pretty rough on startup, kinda feels like its missing or something. And on acceleration it stumbles kinda and feels like a subaru. I've checked the spark plugs and they were ok except for #6 which had quite a bit of oil build up on it and smelt like unburnt fuel. I cleaned them all to see if that was the problem. Put them back in car and started it and it ran good for about 1 minute then started doing its stumbly thing at idle... I had a play with the ignition timing aswell to try to see if i could set it straight, found a good setting for timing with the 10psi that i run so thats ok. But after driving that car for about 20 minutes it just got even more stumbly, but on boost you dont even notice it. I put a new distributor cap on yesterday aswell. the car is also drinking water slowly. Using about 400ml a day (i just topped it up with more or shell's coolguard). My lead are about 4 months old, one day i noticed they were leaking spark so i taped them up and i never noticed it again. Is the problem that i need new leads? Or what. I used to get a vacuum or between 17-18 at idle. Now its at like 14-16. Thats why i set the ignition timing. I dont know what to do. I have a feeling headgasket might be cracked somewhere as my water looked very mildly contaminated but my oil looks fine (its about 3 months old). Help.... Regards, George.

thats a weird file type...that i dnt wanna download

we can do it here eh. yeah ebay japan or something may be a good idea

Yep, at least we could discuss Paul Newman stuff :-P

Ok, just went out and had alook at the head. Its a 05L

We need a Paul Newman Version club or something....