SH2: The Rebuild (Image Heavy)

[andrewsmith]

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

No, or he'd have done it already.

I've got higher priorities, which is why its till under the stairs....me dosh needs spending elsewhere

Fair enuf. Kids are more fun

[squirrel_hunter]

Originally Posted by barwel1992

the head gasket is made up of 3 layer black bit then shiny bit then black bit, simply take the shiny bit out of the middle, the gasket is punched togeather so might need a screwdriver to prise them apart

ps this info is from zoran on twf

im going to be doing it, along with slotting the ignition pick up to advance the ign.

I see. However as the front is now on I'll pass on this mod for this time. Maybe on the next engine...

Originally Posted by barwel1992

what else are you planning on doing ?

Pop back later and you'll see. But to be fair its a fairly standard swapping type of mod.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

NOpe not me that starved it, but my ex who put an impact driver through the alternator bolt thing, and with me working nightshifts, didn't know it had a crack in it, you know how it is, come home in the dark, go to work in the dark, not time to chack your oil level.

You've written that as though you believe it's a valid excuse for not checking the oil.

it is stig

[dizzyblonde]

That incident happened when I didn't know what I know now, courtesy of YC.
These days I am completely anal about checking the oil, I used to rely a lot on someone else (read ex) doing things like that.
The impact driver incident and subsequently having to swap an engine, in fact the whole bike rebuild had YC teaching me so much, not that confident about doing a lot, but the understanding is there.

[_Stretchie_]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

Nice to see that this project did not get stuffed in a box and forgotten

Ha haaa haaaa, you have no idea it's been in boxes do you



Remember when we came down to Weston Bike night all that time ago.. It had been in boxes for about a year at that point

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I won't ever put it out for parts, just need the correct person with the correct knowledge, tools, time etc to do it properly...

Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. As Squirrell said, lets see how this works out

[squirrel_hunter]

Part 10; Heads Up:

With the piston's and barrels on its time for the valves and timing is everything. Cleaned them up to remove some of the carbon build up but stopped short of removing the valves totally.

With the valves heads on the cams need to go in. Remember to get the engine rotation correct before trying to put the cams in as if you don't things will not line up and if you don't check the rotation gently you can do a lot of damage. For this engine I had another rummage in the garage and came up trumps with a set of later cams to do the traditional cam swap. Using the instructions on here and on BARF I marked the old cams and installed them (more than once but lets never talk about that again)

After the cams were installed valve clearances were the order of the day. The inlets were in tolerance, however the exhausts needed to drop one shim size. Note as a tip here take all of the shims out if they are going to be replaced to get the correct current sizes before ordering replacements as the shims on the front cylinder may not match the shims on the rear...

Finally its the valve covers and the engine covers. The great book of lies says that the water pump on the clutch case should be taken out to facilitate the removal of the clutch cover, in hindsight I don't think this is strictly necessary, but would like to know others opinions.


The valves cleaned up


And on the engine


The new and old cams


Front timing marks


Rear timing marks


Make sure everything is on


And then add the covers


More covers


And the engine assembled

[yorkie_chris]

Thing about taking water pump off is not right, they are talking about 2gen.

[andrewsmith]

Looking good mate.

Found a use for an old haynes aswel!!

how did you get the heads that clean ? mine have burnt oil all over them that won't come off

with my engine was black :/