Thread: Head Gasket on TD5

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

The blocks are pretty safe from cooling system damage but with that much corrosion to the head I'd be tempted to pull the engine and redo all the plugs seals and fittings.

Makes a lot of sense to do while everythings off. Can see some corrosion but doesn't look as bad as the head. Have attached pics below. Thoughts?

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Hi Jon, if by trans service kit you mean oil and filter change on auto transmission. If oil comes out black it means it hasn't been regularly serviced and unless you can get history on the unit you might buy yourself a whole lot of trouble sooner than you need to if you proceed with filter. There's several threads on it. Make sure you read these (as below) before proceeding. Cheers, Mort2
td5 auto trans question

Originally Posted by V8Ian

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A customer wanted to pay me $25 more!

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Originally Posted by jonharper

Makes a lot of sense to do while everythings off. Can see some corrosion but doesn't look as bad as the head. Have attached pics below. Thoughts?

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Ive seen worse...

in your case I would be very tempted to go down to a gunshop and get yourself a set of chamber brushes for a 303 and 12 gauge a set of pull rods turn them into drill attachements and have at getting the loose scale out and off with them using watered down soluable oil as a flushing agent/lube/coolant.

bottle brushes also work at getting the really loose stuff off but dont last as well.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

Ive seen worse...

in your case I would be very tempted to go down to a gunshop and get yourself a set of chamber brushes for a 303 and 12 gauge a set of pull rods turn them into drill attachements and have at getting the loose scale out and off with them using watered down soluable oil as a flushing agent/lube/coolant.

bottle brushes also work at getting the really loose stuff off but dont last as well.

Genuis. I'm on it.

If you need head gaskets and head bolts let me know, I have a set surplus to my requirements.

Ian
Bittern

I recently had to have my TD5 head skimmed.

I wasn't convinced that setting the injector bump stops by eye was the best method so after a bit of research and much googling, I came across this:
Td5 Injector bump adjustment

I looked for the marks, they are there, just very lightly etched so use a good torch.
Once I found them, easy peasy. The cam is even marked in firing order, not numerical order so only need one revolution to do the injector timing!

As others have said, I used my old head bolts to confirm the threads were clean and not fouled. I was happy once I could screw the old bolts in and out by hand without any graunching.

I didn't use an angle gauge per se either. I scribed datum (angle) lines on the socket and after the initial bolt torque, scribed 0 degree marks on each bolt and the head. More work probably and a little finicky, but then I only had to tension to the angles marked on the socket.

Hope it helps.

Cheers
Ralph

Originally Posted by Ralph1Malph

I didn't use an angle gauge per se either. I scribed datum (angle) lines on the socket and after the initial bolt torque, scribed 0 degree marks on each bolt and the head. More work probably and a little finicky, but then I only had to tension to the angles marked on the socket.

thats how I do it

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