Leon Speed

Thanks. I'm sure I'm forgetting thing too, but I have have been collecting parts for two or three years so I have a pretty good stash some stuff I forgot I even had.

Leon Speed

Small ting today.

Insulated the fuel rails. Found some Pipe insulation material for solar installations, good up to 150C.




Rebuilt the tensioner.

Leon Speed

Replaced the freeze plug. Old one looks nasty but it isn't rusted on the inside, that's old sealant.











Replaced the cam seals and the plastic oil block off thingies with new pins.

Leon Speed

Finally some new progress to report. I was somewhat stuck in the "need to renew that part too"-mode. Was ordering more and more until I said enough. Put this thing back together.

Soooo

After changing out all the the charcoal canister lines and vacuum actuator



I installed new tensioner pads




and new knock sensors




I put the cam covers back on





then the coolant bridge with an extra paper gasket




then test fitted the intake



and bolted it down with spacers (man! that's a lot of hoses, lines and wires to route correctly and tighten down!)





now, test fitting the fuel rails and new injectors



What do you think? Too much black?

Ed Scherer

Very nice work.

And, IMHO, a great color scheme.

Lizard928

It's hard to see on my iPhone, did you add the aluminum spacers between the cam cover bolts, and conical washer?
Also you will need to pull the vacuum hoses, and throttle linkage off to be able to install fuel rails.
Last point, you will need to remove one of the water bridge bolts and remove the powdercoating under it to ensure the bridge is properly grounded, if it isn't your temp II will send a false signal to the brain and the car will not run right.
Confirm ohm test from each pin of temp II to temp II body, the chassis ground. There should be zero difference.

Leon Speed

Thanks!

Colin, check, check and check. Did all that

Just tested the temp II sensor, got 4490 Ohm between the pins, 2240 Ohm between pin and ground, and 2230 Ohm between other pin and ground. This sensor is three years old.

Temp I though is as old as the car, but the temp gauge works normally. Tested it anyhow and got readings I didn't expect. I got 624 Ohm between the pins, and infinite resistance between each pin and ground.


Installed fuel rails and hooked up the engine harness.

Leon Speed

Some new progress...

Replaced all oil pump seals, replaced the crank seal



Cam backing plates





New hall sensor



New oil pump gear

Leon Speed

Tried to install the tensioner with the bolts as listed in PET. I ordered these bolts because I noticed the tensioner had longer bolts installed and figured someone messed up...



wft..?

I have an '85 casting...



with the old bolts...



So is PET wrong or do I have an older part installed?

Anyway, tensioner bolted back up



New cam keys and hubs





Newly coated cam gears





Water pump and tensioner arm installed



Belt routed, timing in the next days...

NoVector

Very, very nice work! What kind of coating is on the cam gears?

928mac

Looks awesome and it looks like a great job. Note, loctight the oil pump gear on.
Mine just walked off after 3 years and more then likely bent the valves.

AirtekHVAC

Very cool...I like all the black

hacksaw

Anybody got a picture of an 84?

Leon Speed

Thanks! The coating is some special ultra secret stuff, done by Colin (Lizard). I actually don't know what it is other that there are signs of electro plating.

Thanks! Yes I saw that. Loctite blue sounds like a good idea, I wasn't impressed with 40 Nm because the gear can't be locked while torquing, so it is a guess at best.

Thanks! I am working in a pretty dark garage box, so I am hoping that in daylight it will look just right.

928porschepatrick

Mooi man !!!