Where did you get your silver paint to tuffty, also isit out of a spray can?
I got the paint from various places, amazon, eBay and locally... yes, all from cans... here is the collection I am currently using...
So... started by removing the old stem seals even though they had only done 5k miles or so...
...then set about lapping in the valves... all was going well until I inspected the seats after the second pass of fine cutting paste...
..damnit!!... seats looked pitted.. tried a couple of other valves and had a patch where it looked like the paste hadn't touched the seat... (dark patch in pic)
so, gave up on the exhausts and thought I would see how the inlets fared... not much better as it turns out...
...so I lubed up the valve stems and bunged them back in the head to drop off at the 'head' guy we use for doing guides etc to get the seats 'touched' by the cutter...
A little disappointing by at least I caught it now rather than have issues later... my fault as I didn't send the valves to Andrew with the head and I am sure he would have picked up on this... the seats looked ok until I started lapping the valves in... the grinding paste reveals everything lol...
So... to make me feel a bit better I painted something...
Thats the sump done so I figure I need to get that on really... but before I did that I wanted to convince myself my squirters were ok after Scullies had his little 'incident' with one... broke out the bore scope and had a look...
...looks like it should be ok...
So feeling a bit better about that I wanged the sump on...
...again all was going well until....
...hummm... thats not supposed to happen!... the problem here was I had used the wrong windage tray!! my old one went off with the bottom end when I sold it... the tray is different depending if you have an oil sensor or not... I picked one up out of Bill's parts bin not realising... the tray at the bottom is the correct one...
So of came the sump and fitted the correct windage tray.... previous view through the oil sensor hole...
... now with the correct windage tray...
...and of course the sensor now sits in the hole properly!!
...so thats that for the bottom... just need to sort the head out!!
To get over this disappointment I went and painted something
Turbo will be ordered tomorrow, need to work out what I am doing about an exhaust so that can be ordered too... you gotta love modding cars :icon_thumright:
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