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how long did it take you to change engine and do what i did today?

 Sun 07 Aug 2005 06:23:14 PM
took me 8 hours to

take out engine and gearbox, driveshafts, wiring
change over gearbox and flywheel/clutch to new engine
put new engine in car
take off head of new engine
take off head of old engine
put new head on old engine (about 50% through doing it, just need head bolt torque settings as i done have an angle degree thing)
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Re: how long did it take you to change engine and do what i did today?

 Sun 07 Aug 2005 06:43:42 PM
How come you are changing the head?
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Re: how long did it take you to change engine and do what i did today?

 Sun 07 Aug 2005 06:56:00 PM
i left it to my mechanic took 2 days
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Re: how long did it take you to change engine and do what i did today?

 Sun 07 Aug 2005 08:04:43 PM
well the engine i bought to replace my timing chain broken engine had heaps low pressure....


so, i changed over the new head onto my old engine, which i am in the process of doing now...

gotta get one of those angle guages...
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Re: how long did it take you to change engine and do what i did today?

 Sun 07 Aug 2005 08:29:45 PM
Are you using new head bolts? I think they need to be new ones as they stretch.
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Re: how long did it take you to change engine and do what i did today?

 Mon 08 Aug 2005 12:20:20 PM
new head bolts or studs, new head gasket, etc..

you did all that stuff pretty quick :)

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Re: how long did it take you to change engine and do what i did today?

 Mon 08 Aug 2005 06:22:21 PM
Gawd, it took me 3 months to put a new light-bulb out the front of the house. LOL