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  • #32
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Update time :)

    With other projects and some personal problems, this car does get the back burner now and again.... This is mostly about the engine but alas, lets see what I got up to anyway!

    First, converting the air oil cooler to coolant means I have to swap the studs
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    On with the filter housing/inter shaft housing
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    Cooler now
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    The front
    15279573436_82e05ad666_h.jpg

    Pull clutches are grand and dandy, except on a Busso they're a complete arse to put back together, between fiddly mount designs and an awkward shaped box
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    I got it on myself but it took a lot of swearing
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    Choice of starters
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    Ready for it... The pig fell off the pallet.... But I got the starter on :pac:
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    Manifold on
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    I should have more pics, but can't find them.... Either way, it's ready to shove into the car. I have 156 mounts on, shields, wired up, slave housing.

    Soon.... How soon.... ;)


  • #33
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,029 ✭✭✭shedweller


    That engine looks like it's trying to escape! Or just get in the car??!


  • #34
    blackbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,420 ✭✭✭blackbox


    oops - I meat to post this in the 166 thread...

    Regarding cam belt tensioning on the V6, the special tool works better if you put the lower bolt into the alternator mounting hole. This allows it to tighten up against the tensioner mounting rather than the actual pulley (which might get damaged). When tightened correctly the Allen bolt can be tightened to hold it in place. - If you use it as in DGT's photo, access to the allen bolt is blocked.

    To use the special tool requires the alternator to be removed, which is even more work.

    My recommendation is to follow DGT's "alternative method" using a screwdriver to lever up to the correct tension. Better and simpler and can still be done with the engine in a 166 - I don't know about 156..

    i.e. I wouldn't waste my money on the tool (again!).


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