Im a bit busy today so no big work this saturday, but still managed to find a few free minutes for the car: 1) Scraped off some old cylinder head gasket stuff with a spatula: 2) Measured the cylinder top bore, and largest i measured was 82,92mm. Actually i didn’t find any information on the standard bore on the quick (have to search for it) and on the other hand i don’t know if i even used right method and tools to measure this. probably not 😛

Had a few minutes left today so off to the garage 🙂 1) Got a pretty nice delivery from Alison at BRE (Brock racing enterprises) one of 500 HQ prints of a classic BRE celebration poster, Hand signed by Peter brock himself – Love it! (Will post better pictures, as soon as i got a frame for it): Plus a little message – thanks guys at BRE, great and fast service!! 2) then started work at the car – removed ignition plugs: Some of them where white, others brown, others black – weird.. Added a little wood support to not bend the valves while it’s sitting there: 3) Decided to…

Today i got really a lot done within probably one hour. Despite the fact i’ve never touched an engine before im really happy with todays’ results: 1) Removed the cam gear nut: and the cam gear: 2) finally i was able to remove the cylinder head: I’m no specialist on this, but i feel the pistons look quite a bit “burnt” but not really damaged or something. Also it doesn’t look like it has been honed or something. Looks quite original inside: 3) Same thing on the cylinder head side: 4) Then removed the cylinder head gasket. all of the gaskets feel really brittly and shit: also you can see…

So continued the work on the engine: 1) Removed the oil pan: 2) then started with the crank pulley not (actually i allready did this last time..) But somehow distroyed the ratchet (probably there was too much force with me :D) Anyway – i got it off: Then started to remove the headbults as metioned in the service manual using this “IKEA” type tool plus a rubber hammer: But then figured out to reach all of the head studs i need to remove this pipe first: Which had some crazy corroded stuff inside: And then had all of the bolts off. Need to get a new ratched to get the…

Decided to give the engine dissasembly another attempt today, so started with removing the water pump: Well looked quite messy inside. with some probably 10 year old water inside… But after a quick cleanup it looked way better: 2) Next was the water pipe (not sure if this is the inlet or outlet pipe..) 3) and third that “chain cover” (not sure what it’s really called :D): 4) then off with the engine mounts: 5) Next was the Crank pulley which reffering to the manual just have to bee pulled of using a special tool. … So i thought it also might work with a ball joint / Bearing removal…