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Welcome to CS, i am from Essex also and it seems hard to get a meet together tbh.
Look in the club meet section to find out when and where the next get together is.
Most car and bike meets are in the same place and on the same day tbh, i pop along to the Dick Turpin on the A127 on a wednesday nite which is a Amercain car meet.
If there was a meet like this every week or maybe every other week or the 1st or last day of the months etc.... Then people would...
If you dont know that you should take a plug out to be abe to find tdc then you can fu@k it up.......Simples...After working on Aston Martins for well over 12 years i have no problems in doing mine which i have just done but i did shell out and buy the Renault locking tools.
There are many...
Always bleed brakes from the furthest point away from the master cylinder :-
Passenger rear.
drivers rear.
passenger front.
drivers front.
If you work quick then the fulid will not run out.
You will have to give Ben a call, i know hes not cheap but i would think his works 2nd to none and he knows his stuff, not only works on Renaults his portfolio is great having done stuff for FIA motorsport and other top end competors.
He will doing my cylinder head over the winter months along...
Ben @ Angelworks is doing my inlets for my ph1 172, they are reworked from your standard inlets. Ben has had mine now for over 4 weeks and i hope to getting them back on tues.
Time = money so i guess if there are companys out there doing them cheap then maybe they are not spending much time in...
I have never been to the Ace cafe and my car should be ready by then, but i am on a stag do the day before....
But you never know how i will feel in the morning....:)
Well you talk as if you know what you are doing so why ask advice?
Just go and get on with it then as cleaning etc.... is a monkeys job you say but if you DONT get the dephaser 100% clean of its oil then it could slip and smash the valves up....
As i have said and ill say it again "THE...
You can get the crank pin in the wrong hole very easy as there is a blance cut out of the crank web right next to the timing hole. The dephaser is removed anyway so that makes no difference as it needs to be cleaned very well also the cam sprockets seals are replaced along with the fixing bolt/nuts.
Train on something a little easier dan, you will need all of the locking tools from Renault at a cost of about £150 and then the cost of the timimg belt kit along with the aux belt kit from Renault only.
I know as i have just bought all of the tools and the belt kits to do mine, this job can...