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Originally Posted by Rversteeg

No need to drill the security bolt out as you can probably get it out with a mole grip. That is how I did it anyway.

I have done that before too but find my mole grips a bit hit and miss for the job.

So today's job was to continue cleaning up the exhaust port mating faces.... no photo.

Replace the rear crank seal! So to start with I set the engine to number one TDC by putting the two missing dimples on the flywheel in the middle of the starter motor hole.


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I then gave it a clean up, also found all of the bolts loose on the seal housing and one was several threads loose! So they were all tightened up.


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Then the nice shiny resurfaced dogdish flywheel was fitted with new flywheel bolts torqued to 70nm


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Next up was the distributor seals, I thought I had taken a photo of the position of the rotor arm before removal... of course not so I had to study the photos I took of it dirty, so hopefully it is in the right place and it isn't 180 degrees out. If it is then at least it is just a simple job of two bolts, pull it forward a bit, rotate 180 degrees and refit.


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EGR junk deleted!


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Replace the thermostat seal... this one hasn't gone quite to plan as the thermostat is stuck inside the housing! So I've scraped away as much of the old seal and gunk around it as I can and left it soaking in wd40.

"New" wiper stalk arrived too as intermittent doesn't work unless you out a slight bit of pressure downwards on the stalk when it is in the intermittent position.


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More parts arrived


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