7 day challenge

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Originally Posted by Chris J

After reading your post Chris I realised we had a calibration thermometer in the lab draw at work, filled a cup from the kettle & both stabilised & dropped within 1/2 a degree of each other.

The only other thing with the cooling system is I just looped the heater pipes rather than reconnected the heater core & fitted a new fan belt.

Will check part No. on thermostat when I sort out gearbox seal & reconnect heater when I put engine back in, also might chuck fan in car & try & find a clutch fan at a wreckers (thinking nissan).

ps: took forever getting engine to temp prior to all the works.

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I actually made a thread about that a while ago. mine takes 20 mins of driving in QLD heat before it will finally get to temp.

Why not try taking for a run and then checking the actual temp with a laser temp reader (cheap from Dick Smith)?

Chris - If you are anywhere near the Adelaide Hills and want to call past, I have a digital infra-red temperature gauge if you want to get an accurate reading. We are just out of Balhannah.

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Originally Posted by spudboy

Chris - If you are anywhere near the Adelaide Hills and want to call past, I have a digital infra-red temperature gauge if you want to get an accurate reading. We are just out of Balhannah.

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Or, if you are near the city, I can take mine (infrared thermo) into Hutt Street if you want. Alan

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Originally Posted by Chris J

Extremely bad news just drained 1.5L of gear oil from bell housing, it appears something went wrong with the new seals & gaskets I installed to the front of the gearbox.:(

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Pulled engine out again & gearbox front cover off, seal badly damaged probably during install. Input shaft has a sharp square edge not rounded or chamfered , will try & relieve this to allow a smoother install.

Clutch contaminated with oil so picked up new plate, won't be reinstalling that wading plug until I see deep water.

I definitely damaged oil seal on install, relieved input shaft angle slightly & installed carefully; whole thing felt different, in hindsight I should have known I pinched oil seal when I put the cover back on.

Learnt a lesson & got more practice in removing engine on my own, lesson learnt = take care every step of gearbox front cover refurbishment.

Might have got practice getting engine out, having a bugger of a job getting it back in this time.

Make sure you don't force it together Chris. You have to persevere and get things lined up exactly and it will slip together. Don't be tempted to pull it together with the bolts - a sure way to bend the input bearing tabs. Oh and don't forget to manipulate the slave cylinder pushrod through the hole while you're doing all this:D

Thanks for the advice Bearman, eventually it did just pop together took some buggering around between trolley jack under gearbox & angle of engine, the 10mm bolts cut down were a god send. Gave up for a smoke at one point slightly adjusted a few things & it fell together, I think the key is the angle.:)

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Originally Posted by Chris J

...Gave up for a smoke at one point slightly adjusted a few things & it fell together....)

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Sometimes walking away and coming back later is the key.

Good luck this time.