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That probably is about 6 rotations of cam pulley. OK here we go!

Hey guys got 5 mins free so jumping onto clio. Looking @ tensioning timing belt. As usual the service manual is completely unclear. It says after doing to bit with the tensioner to "rotate the timing 6 times using exhaust pulley". Well does than mean rotate so that the entire belt travels all...

Awesome - I'll try that tomorrow. The pulleys are MUCH stiffer than I expected. I guess there is a lot of friction. I guess I'm still suppose to still have the TDC lock in. The manual hasn't told me to remove it.

It certainly does! You have eagle eyes. OK I've read through the tensioning procedure and I think I understand it. BUT I just realised that I forgot to order Tool 799-01 for turning the pulleys under tension. Tried bodging it with some tools, but it's not going to happen. Sooooo... got to...

- Pulleys & timing belt on. Everything loose at mo except 2 idler pulleys which are torqued. - Lower timing belt cover fitted & crank pulley with bolt left loose

That looks right yes Dan? I believe that is pinned in place with tool 1054 now. I bounced the pistons into the valves a few times while trying to get my bearings, but it was very light hand rotation, so I'd be amazed if it did any damage: FYI - the service manual dioesn't say any of this...

Thanks, so have I! Gotcha - OK I'll have a play today

Cool thx. So with the cams locked as my picture are the valves in a state where they are all closed and so can not contact the pistons? That would be the logical thing. Also, out of interest, what piston state is TDC? It is when they are all neutral? Or when 1 & 4 are at the top of travel...

OK - only managed to get few mins to work on Clio this evening between the rain and customers calling to complain about late deliveries - I mean whats with that? Why do they call to say the courier is a day late? What can I do about it? Turn back time so the courier can try again? Really gets my...

Sh*te, I managed to miss Dan's latest post this morning but hopefully not the end of the World: - luckily at last minute I decided to re-reroute to the cam oil seals anyway, so that was lucky - timing cam oil seals now flush cam cover, maybe a tiny bit proud, <1mm - I did use sealant on the...

LOLs just spent the last few hours in the dark with the mozzies, scraping goey sealer off the head and cam covers! Not the relaxing evening I had planned. Oh well at least it's done now. It seemed prudent to get it done before the sealer dried completely. Dan, I took a pic of the cam covers...

Cheers Dan - OK I take the covers off tomorrow, clean up and try again. At least you spotted it before too late. - Big D at the top, great thats what I was hoping. - OK I'll re-fit the seals closer to the edge, I wasn't sure where to put them.

Right cooking on gas now: 1) cleaned and fitted stops, rocker arms and cams. 2) new seals for cams, timing end, didn't lube them so hope that is correct. 3) applied RheinoPlast to main cam cover. Wasn't sure where is was supposed to go, so went ape sh*t and put it everywhere. 4) fitted cam cover...

Got a big post next so going to skip to post #121 so it appears on a new page. PTO

OK head finally torqued. After shredding 5 chinese 3/8" drives, I borrowed a Snappon 3/8" from Kwikfit mate and it worked perfectly. Shows the difference in quality tools. OK that's my first angular torquing session over and done with. Head torqued. Can't say I enjoyed it. Was an ugly...

No worries - I'll change it all for new stuff - doesn't seem much point of going this far and not changing small bits like this. Thx

You never re-use the cam pulley bolts? Does that include the thread that is in the end of the exhaust cam? Not sure if it is removable.

Oh yeh! Sorry, didn't notice that! Thanks Lets push on.

Hey guys. Looking ahead at fitting cams. Manual says fit cams with right hand end grooves level. That is fine, but how to I ensure that the cams are not out by 180º rotation? Do you know what I mean? It says to "offset cams down", but I don't know what that means. I've got nothing on the cams...

Hmm, well, I snapped all of my 3/8" drives trying to tighten the head bolts. The socket required is a E14 female torque, but no one seems to manufacture them in 1/2" drive. Unsure how to proceed. EDIT - oh, found one. :)

As well as Crank bolt Service Manual says to change cam pulley bolts also. Do you guys do that or re-use old bolts?

Head back on block :smile: Took bloody ages, couldn't get it to sit right.

Cheers Dan OK, just waiting for a my Renault tools and some other tools to arrive, and then the head will go on and look at get the timing belt on.

OK managed to get crank pulley bolt off. In the end I jammed a screwdriver into flywheel to stop crank and that did trick. Just realised that I forgot to buy replacement crank bolt as was suggested earlier in this thread. Doh! Service manual says not to re-use bolt if length>49.1mm. It measures...

Bah - another question: Service manual says to "reprime" hydraulic stops with diesel before re-fitting to head. Why is this please? I'm not sure I can get a container of diesel, can I reprime with a container of engine oil maybe? thx

Ta da! Head assembly finished. Mega proud of that. Gotta get my head around the head bolt tightening before going any further.

Ok. "tighten to angle" means litteraly that yes? turn the bolt clockwise through 165º angle? Also, do that procedure for each bolt, then move on to next bolt? Or do all bolts for each stage? thx

Hey guys - stuck again lol Looking ahead to cylinder head bolt tightening Service Manual says "tighten to 2 daN.m", I get that bit, I assume is means tighten to 20Nm. Or is it 200Nm? It's 200 isn't it? But after that it says "then carry out angular tightening of 165º +-6º", I have no idea what...

Today in pictures: - parts arrived - fitted new valve stems seals - re-fitted the refreshed exhaust valves

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