WITW - Barn-find Final Edition

[Ronin]

£30 tensioner is paying off ok for me for now.... if it fails I'll start a thread about it

[MikkiJayne]

Bank 1 this evening



The gauze has split on this one and the middle has gone through the tensioner hence the startup rattle





Cam cover cleaned and new gasket installed



Sealant in the corners



Back on, two new tensioners installed



Thats all the internal work done on the engine



The replacement manifold is almost ready for paint. Serendipitously, this is from my grey S8's original engine so I know there's only 113K miles on it.



I know this one is from my engine because the previous owner had a can of orange paint, and for some reason painted random bits of hardware and engine parts with it This includes the crank pulley, fan pully, and inexplicably, these two nuts. I'll clean this off before it goes back together.



Since the injector rail is off for paint I will replace all the injector filters and seals

[Ronin]

I'm so glad I took your advice removed my filters on the tensioners now

[tintin]

Originally Posted by Ronin

£30 tensioner is paying off ok for me for now.... if it fails I'll start a thread about it

If that happens, it'll either be a very short or a very, very long thread...

[Ronin]

Originally Posted by tintin

If that happens, it'll either be a very short or a very, very long thread...

You are right but for a price of 2 oem tensioners ill get a used pre-fl 4.2 v8 in it

[MikkiJayne]

You really don't want to be mixing PF and FL drivetrains - trust me on that one! I do have an FL 4.2 on the shelf though

[MikkiJayne]

Injectors tonight.



Having struggled to get the filters out of the PF injectors, I made a tool The injector fits in the hole, then a self-tapper is screwed in to the filter



Then a trim removal tool can be used to lever against the tool and pop the filter out



thus:



All the filters removed. They are actually all clean and in perfect order, but I didn't know that until I took them out



At this point I was thwarted as the new filters are a slightly different size so I had to stop. I need to query this with the supplier tomorrow before proceeding, so I finished off prepping the manifold for paint which will hopefully go on tomorrow.

[strummagnet]

Originally Posted by Ronin

You are right but for a price of 2 oem tensioners ill get a used pre-fl 4.2 v8 in it

Nope. stick one of these in......

https://www.partsworldperformance.co...ngine-19369333

With a 5HP19 that will work

[MikkiJayne]

Actually I do know a chap who could build a 5HP to take that beast. Only problem is, the crank pulley would be roughly where the number plate lives

[Ronin]

Originally Posted by strummagnet

Nope. stick one of these in......

https://www.partsworldperformance.co...ngine-19369333

With a 5HP19 that will work

I would name the thread: "The revenge of 2.8 owners"