Tonka777
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Long story short, had a sudden coolant drain, used a block tester to diagnose a combustion gas leak into the coolant. Took the head off (AMK) found it was cracked. Bought a bare head from ebay, had it skimmed, started the rebuild, swapping cams etc from my old head then read in the Bentley manual that the cam bearing caps are machined to the head.
New head didn't come with bearing caps, waiting to hear back from the seller to see if they have them still.
If I can't get the original caps for the new head, am I left with a scrap head?
Is there any way I can measure clearances etc IF I were to use the caps from my old cracked head? They'd be matched to the cams from the same head, if that makes any difference?
See loads of bare heads on ebay that don't have caps, so I'd guess that a few people have used different cam bearing caps on replacement heads.
Thanks
New head didn't come with bearing caps, waiting to hear back from the seller to see if they have them still.
If I can't get the original caps for the new head, am I left with a scrap head?
Is there any way I can measure clearances etc IF I were to use the caps from my old cracked head? They'd be matched to the cams from the same head, if that makes any difference?
See loads of bare heads on ebay that don't have caps, so I'd guess that a few people have used different cam bearing caps on replacement heads.
Thanks