vvt sprocket needs fitting s/west s/wales area

[Hallsy67]

ive got my new vvt sprocket from the group buy but im not 100% about fitting it so thought id take it to a garage but no one seems to want to know :( and those who do are quoting nissan hrs to fit. disco tom has offered to help me :notworthy but ive not got a garage and with the weather the way it is dont want to muck him about because of distance so can anyone recomend me a garage in the south west /south wales area who wont rip me off cheers mike :thumbs:

[Wolfe]

Only place I can recommend is all the way down here in Plymouth mate :(

Don't trust anyone else with my baby (well.. apart from the blag artists like Channie etc) :)

[disco-tom]

Garage smarage. You've got a coat, haven't you? :p

Just pick a day when the weather isn't likely to pee it down and we'll sort it. :thumbs:

Tell you what, come to next Saturday's Cheltenham meet and we'll do it there and then if you want. :)

[Hallsy67]

cheers tom :thumbs: i may take you up on that but hopefully ive a guy in weston ring me who has done my car before and hes just opened up on his own and hopefully will do the vvt and more this week for me. but was thinking if all goes well i may pop up for a run on saturday, havent stretchd the cars legs for a long time, thanks very much for the offer again though :notworthy :thumbs:

[disco-tom]

Sure mate, be good to meet a new face. :) Good luck with yer man in Weston, too. :thumbs:

[Ramps]

Sure mate, be good to meet a new face. :) Good luck with yer man in Weston, too. :thumbs:

If he can't do it, I'll hold the umbrella for you next week :thumbs: :wack:

[stumitch]

its only a 2 hr job maximum mate, you won't shrink you know if it rains :wack:

[ian_t]

Chris might do it, pm him hes at brecon road tyres.

[Hallsy67]

spoke to chris ian but i think hes got quite a workload on at the mo, cant do anything until the rocker cover gaskets turn up anyhow :( just want to be able to sit in the car on tickover and not sound like a diesel :D

[disco-tom]

You don't need a new rocker cover gasket, imo. It's not as if the rocker cover gets mashed down that hard anyway. The threads strip at anything over about 3lbs/ft of torque..

All you need is some liquid gasket to seal the three half moon shaped bits that fill the holes on the end of the cams.

[ian_t]

let me guess does the manual say to do them up to over 3ftlbs

I did a rocker cover on my old mazda the book said 8ftlbs, the bolts sheared at about 5 :(

The gasket can be reused as it has been on mine, you just ned to dry the oil off it and use a bit of siliconb gasket to hold it to the rocker as you put it on oither wise its a pain :(

I have a spare rocker hallsy, if you bring me around some nitromors, some sandpaper, some plasticote acrylic and any plasticote of your choice I can paint it up 4 u. I did mine metallic purple.

[disco-tom]

Just looked at the manual and it says they should be torque'd down at between 5.8 to 7.2 lb-ft. A good clean thread in the head will take that, but I don't think a couple of mine were as they never even got tight when I did then up - they just span right down.. :(

Page 67 of the PDF manual, btw. :)

[Hallsy67]

il let andy know about torqueing the rocker then the head must really be made of cheese :eek: cheers tom, il look at some colours ian my engine bay could do with some brightening up :thumbs:

[ian_t]

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