Hi I have recenty replaced the oil seal on the back of the exhast camshaft. I have now got a massive leak, it originally had a front oil seal, which would leak, so I replaced it with the correct, unfortunatly the use of a drill to puncher the old seal like the haynes manual says is a very very bad idea, its far too tight and has resulted in the cam being damaged beyond repair. I would recommend using a centre punch to remove it for people who are going to do it themselves.
I now need to get a cheap replacement exhast camshaft does anybody know where I can get one, my Dad is saying that it is a bad idea to get a second hand one, because it can result in destroying the engine if it is damaged, is this correct?
Also I have started to take the engine apart to get the damaged one out. I have however come to the point where I have the head off, by some bugger has overtightened all the 8mm camshaft bearing holder bolts, honestly if I were to aliken how tight they are done up the are done up to the same strength of engine mounting bolts. Where they should be only done up to 10Nm. So I have come along and have the task of undoing them the bolts are all burring. What do I do, I am very worried that then enigne is going to be written off at this point?
I really at this point just want to find the cowboy who did the work on it last and say some not very nice words to them. Honestly people don't seem to realise that the smaller the bolt the less you can tighten them.
Oh well I would appreciate any comments, no matter how small.
I now need to get a cheap replacement exhast camshaft does anybody know where I can get one, my Dad is saying that it is a bad idea to get a second hand one, because it can result in destroying the engine if it is damaged, is this correct?
Also I have started to take the engine apart to get the damaged one out. I have however come to the point where I have the head off, by some bugger has overtightened all the 8mm camshaft bearing holder bolts, honestly if I were to aliken how tight they are done up the are done up to the same strength of engine mounting bolts. Where they should be only done up to 10Nm. So I have come along and have the task of undoing them the bolts are all burring. What do I do, I am very worried that then enigne is going to be written off at this point?
I really at this point just want to find the cowboy who did the work on it last and say some not very nice words to them. Honestly people don't seem to realise that the smaller the bolt the less you can tighten them.
Oh well I would appreciate any comments, no matter how small.