doh

for gods sake buy new head bolts and check that where the threads start on the head, you haven't pulled the head surface up at all. if you have, use a very fine file to flatten then out...

if you don't get the timing right, as long as you have still got hyd. lifters it will survive.

yer got new bolts and new head gasket to be safe

think ive worked out the timing issues

seems it uses a dot on the crank pulley and a notch in the plastic cover to line it up

the head dont have threads on it? so dunno what your on about there

Yeah ur timing marks for the cambelt are the notch on the back of the cover for the cam which lines up with the mark on the cam pulley. And a triangular mark on the crank gear which goes straight down to line up with the mark on the oil pump.

now i feel stupid

just started again tonight

tigtening away

started thinking WTF it was clicking before now the last time

so i stop and decide to use it on another bolt to see

the fucking bar was in reverse mode

so now ive fucked another set of bolts and another gasket :oops:

fucking pissed off now :evil:

Whoops :o

why start at such a highh setting ??
i start at about 10ft/lb and work my way up
saves making stupid mistakes

I havent laughed out loud like this for so long.

Thanks!

Keep us posted for the next attempt!

:roll: lmao :P

why not just buy a haynes manual? I also hope your using a protracter to tightne them down to the correct degrees. I managed to snap a stud of a rocker extracter in my cam box :oops:

do you have to tighten to the degrees like it says in the haynes or can you just tighten to the torque settings.

just seems very inaccurate??