Brought the head home to do on the dining room table, missus not happy.
Haynes manual showed a screwdriver compressing the springs enough to get the rocker arms out. I tried this and the screwdriver slipped as one of the rockers came out and the rocker guide hit me in the face
. So used a big wooden spoon handle instead with no more injuries.
The cam came out pretty easily. It got tight at a few points but I found if you rotate the cam each time a bit it takes the pressure off the compressed spring and it slides out ok.
All bits kept in order and bagged up and labelled.
Taking the springs out was a bit of a chew on without the right equipment but I was to keen to wait.
Definately reccomend buying a spring compressor!
All the valves almost fell out so I assume I haven't bent any.
Do I need new valves or do you grinding paste them back in??
Hacked the remnants of the scabby old gasket off which took an age.Sanded with a block until I could see some clean metal and cleand with a degreaser to see whats what.
Seems to look ok , but what do I know. Going to Z Farm tommorrow for an honest opinion.
On the manifold side of the head in the middle at the bottom of the picture there appears to be 3 holes, the left one has been filled in with something. Same with the second top hole between pot 1 and pot 2?? Is this normal??
Anyways slow progress but I don't think I've a rsed anything up yet.