Head gasket **PICS**

[Cable]

Nope they are stretch bolts and should only be used once, also to not fit a new cambelt is madness as it will have been stretched.
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Changing to vr6 next week so no point of getting a cambelt.

[bmw156]

joe, i ask because dont know if they chanegd depending on year etc etc, i know its a 16v lol.

and wy bother doing this work, when your changing next week anyway lol.

[Cable]

im selling the engine to a friend and need the car this week, hes gunna replace what he wants to when the engine is out of the car.

[Wayne]

Nope they are stretch bolts and should only be used once, also to not fit a new cambelt is madness as it will have been stretched.


Changing to vr6 next week so no point of getting a cambelt.

If you fitting a VR next then why bother, bodging the ABF back together is daft, you could sell the engine as is on the other hand with a broken cambelt and damage it will be worth peanuts.

[jezza16v]

What does the surface of the head look like? If the gasses have burned through the steel gasket rings then it just as likely burned the alloy head. Also it looks like the piston in the close-up pic has be hit by a valve at some time.....? No point putting it back together if the head is burned or pitted because it will just blow again straight away.

[Cable]

What does the surface of the head look like? If the gasses have burned through the steel gasket rings then it just as likely burned the alloy head. Also it looks like the piston in the close-up pic has be hit by a valve at some time.....? No point putting it back together if the head is burned or pitted because it will just blow again straight away.

Looks like it in the pictiure but no valves have ever hit it, the block and head are fine and flat etc, it runs fine and its got a metal head gasket now.

[Cable]

Nope they are stretch bolts and should only be used once, also to not fit a new cambelt is madness as it will have been stretched.


Changing to vr6 next week so no point of getting a cambelt.

If you fitting a VR next then why bother, bodging the ABF back together is daft, you could sell the engine as is on the other hand with a broken cambelt and damage it will be worth peanuts.

Because i need to use the car, the belt and tensioner were replaced 20,000 miles ago to there fine to re-use.

[Wayne]

Nope they are stretch bolts and should only be used once, also to not fit a new cambelt is madness as it will have been stretched.


Changing to vr6 next week so no point of getting a cambelt.

If you fitting a VR next then why bother, bodging the ABF back together is daft, you could sell the engine as is on the other hand with a broken cambelt and damage it will be worth peanuts.

Because i need to use the car, the belt and tensioner were replaced 20,000 miles ago to there fine to re-use.

That your choice, however your mad a cam belt once it has been tensioned should not be reused as it will have stretched and will snap or jump.

Also that piston has marks from a valve hitting it and that piston does not look to clever against the rest.

[Cable]

As long as they are put on the same way then it doens't matter, + the belt was in good condition + im not going to keep the engine for longer than 2 weeks.

The piston doesnt have any valve marks, because the other side to what you see in the photo didnt have any, its just a manufcturing mark from when it was made. also the piston is a different colour because the fuel wasnt burning due to the lack of compression.

[Matty-MK3]

Make sure the piston isn't at TDC.

I hate people saying that, it's best they are all a bit down so that valves don't catch before you line it all up.