Originally Posted by
johnp38
No it's a landy head that has been very lightly skimmed to clean it up.
I was looking to buy just the cam and injector shaft/rockers to fix the pitted ones (approx 500 from TRS) but spotted disassembled head on gumtree for 500 complete with injectors too (hopefuly re-fitted properly with new o-rings and washers coz it came with injectors already fitted)
It needed the head and carrier mating surfaces cleaned as it had hard black sealant still stuck on it and the oil galleries were still half filled with black stuff (and that's after it had been dipped too) but cam lobes and rocker rollers were all good.
I used lots of spray-on foaming gasket remover and with a bit of effort and a plastic scraper cleaned it up followed by degreaser and a good blow dry.
I have an elring mls gasket so will put on with no hylomar or copper spray (I bought both, hylomar spray new to me, copper spray used extensively over the years, but mls gasket new to me, so will follow manufacturers advice and use with no extra sealers)
When I got the head off it still had the plastic locating dowels and they were offset from head movement exactly like the pictures I have seen online.
2 of my injector springs had shattered base inserts and all of the springs and plungers were easily pulled off. The replacement head I can't disassemble the injector plunger and spring by tugging.
Old hand at engines but completely new to the Td5 so it is a learning curve to pick up on its characteristics.
And you still haven't answered my query re your NNN for sale
I have 2 MSB ecu both with a TRS socketed chip and I think same stage 1 tune , tossing up between buying a programmer and some blank chips or selling them and getting NNN, but mine is EU2 auto hence my questions in the marketplace.
