Early start this morning (well... was 9ish...)... unenviable task of dropping the gearbox to sort the rubbing noise out...
Subframe off as I don't want to be fighting the box...
Transfer box off as it is a pain in the **** to wrestle the box off with it on...
...and after a small amount of faffing... viola!...
Clutch and flywheel off reveals no loose bolts which at least puts my mind at rest over my engine building abilities lol... but you can see a witness mark on the lip of the sump...
...the back of the DMF was in a sorry state...
...compared to my spare...
On closer inspection of the crank I noticed there were odd bits of metal left on there... this was not normal...
What I believe to have happened here is that the thin metal piece on the back of the DMF became distorted from seeing over 10,000 rpm during the 'incident' and this is what was the source of the rubbing... the subsequent rubbing caused the thin metal to over heat and some of it fused to the end of the crank... you can see here on the back of the metal piece where its gone blue from the friction..
So.. cleaned up the end of the crank and fitted a new seal as the 'old' one looked 'used'...
Removed the metal piece from the spare DMF...
...and fitted it all back in... I would imagine the metal acts as a sort of shim to increase friction between the DMF and the crank but SMF's typically fit with no 'shim' so meh... will give it a go...
Clutch plate and cover looked fine...
Wrestled the box back on then bolted it all back together...
Next job was to get a new cam belt in ready... usually a thankless task due to the mount you have to remove to get to the belt but the head was off making it easier...
All went well... a surprisingly painless task... well... I say painless... I had been at Bills for best part of twelve hours and it was starting to tell... especially when I slipped doing up a bolt on the belt idler
Doh!!!... looks worse than it actually is... always nice to get a little love bite from the old girl lol...
Has enough and went home... tomorrow I need to clean up the contact marks on the pistons...
...fit the head and start fitting everything back in.... and sort out the inlet that Bill kindly welded for me today...
Very achy and tired but the old girl should be running again in the next few days
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