steamy exhaust (101 v8)

I've started at it today - pulled the first plug out to start the compression test and it came out all wet and manky - so I didnt bother with the compression test! The other 6 plugs that i have managed to remove so far look OK.

Lee - How did you go on with Morphs manifolds?. Ive done them all now and the count was one bolt that rounded off and came off with an 11m socket hammered on, and 2 snapped off heads on the drivers side.

Richard - addendum since my last phone call - do you sell a spark plug socket for the rover v8? 14mm thinwall i presume. Mine wont fit on and i did it all with a box socket today which wasnt easy.

for reference - a std spark plug socket (assuming mine is std!) wont work in a rover v8 as there aint enough clearance between the plug and the head to fit it in. I paid someone to set up my 101 and change the plugs when i got it and have neglected it since so have never realised this until now!

I'll pop into halfrauds on the way home and see if they sell em, otherwise might take you up on that if i dont manage to buy one from somewhere before i get there. I've got 6 of them out with the box spanner from a saab 900 toolkit

Proabably! I havn't got the far in the suppliers catalogue yet......

I dare say I've got one you can borrow.

Richard

Shove one in an envelope, and I'll get on of our lads to turn it down for you.

Steve

That's the way to go, I've got two out of those cheap socket sets which I turned about a millimetre off the outside for about 20 mm from the bottom. Made a second one when I couldn't find the first then it turned up again.

Martin

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Manifolds - Exhaust to block about three or four were helicoiled. The valves were all done at the engineers along with new valve guides. All valves reworked in to their seats.

Actual exhaust manifolds on the passenger side had to have one stud ground off, drilled and replaced.

All done by Allards who used to be down Chesterton but are now just off Litchfield street. Wasn't cheap mind.

I just used the box spanner, it doesn't take much to strip a thread on a v8 head so all ratchets were banished from the spark plug duties.

I still have the offending Valve in the kitchen window as a reminder to be more trusting in my Dads diagnosis in future.

Lee

i got everything out of the passenger side, 2 snapped in the other side. Hopefully i can weld something to them to get them out once the head is off...

Im hoping i can just get away with cleaning them up and putting them back.. is it worth lapping all the valves in while it is apart? My mate had some trouble with allards not doing as they should have when he took a head there i think. I've been recommended the place next door to staffs engine components in longport (next to 'gintys) recently - though it took em ages to do my cars flywheel.

I cant even get them all out with the box spanner!

Yes - very worthwhile.

TBH it really is worth getting the seats recut and the valves refaced whilst you have it apart.

is there anything else i should be/should consider doing while im at it also? Is it also worth doing the timing chain? (since im doing the cam).

I've now got both manifold off.. is there supposed to be about an inch of crud on the valley gasket? (along with various bits of what i assume are medical equipment and many lost nuts and bolts!)

I've been using the green 101 workshop manual for this job. It has gems like 'remove the intake manifold' without any mention of where the bolts are for it (under an inch of crud in most cases!)

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I had one very illusive one, ah... memories :-)

The one underneath the carb linkage perchance?

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You found it then :-)

Lee