Â’IÂ’ did my headgasket on the wknd (pics)

[sportline_velly]

i thought it was about time i did some of my own work on my car.
With the head gasket going totally on me while i was up Bruntingthrope the other week i thought i out fix this myself.
after chatting to a few people how to do the job i started on firday afternoon

it all went well, apart from i forgot to drain the water out so when i split the head water went everywhere lol



after filling up the cylinders with water i got an old t-shirt and cleaned up my mess.

oh yeah, i was doing all of this out in the street outside nextdoor lol






(my house is the white one by the 109 bin lol)

got it all back together but i put the cam belt on wrong!!!

i had it going the wrong way around the tensioner!!!

i knew i did something wrong and after about 10 calls to carpy and paulh i got to the bottom of it.

Paul cam up to make sure i was doing it correct and withing 15mins we had the car running  []

BUT had a leak drom the rocker cover, so thanks to carpy i had a new gasket off him and i changed that yesterday.

just an oil change tonight and job done  []

not a bad weekends work of an office monkey   [LOL]  [] 

[davero]

  well done mate, takes b*lls to tackle a job like that

[pinkfloyd]

Well done mate, not an easy task by any stretch.

Hope you changed the cam belt tesioner 

Did a cam belt on my old diesel two years ago and two weeks after I fitted it the tesioner went and bent four of the valves and it was xmas eve  .
Well worth changing when the belts off anyway.

[gibby]

Good effort matey, office monkey myself so that takes some b0llocks to attempt. Hat off to you !  FAF as well doing it all a couple of doors down from you, bet the neighbours love you ! 

[golfpro]

I wouldnt know where to start with engines. Whay do it myself when i can pay someone to do it?

Oh actually, i see, so i dont have to pay anyone to do it  

Good work though!

[sportline_velly]

Well done mate, not an easy task by any stretch.

Hope you changed the cam belt tesioner 

Did a cam belt on my old diesel two years ago and two weeks after I fitted it the tesioner went and bent four of the valves and it was xmas eve  .
Well worth changing when the belts off anyway.

the engine was put in the car in october with a new cam belt and tensioner

[Gambit]

fair play for having a go at it, and succeeding!

[...joe]

i remember when i had to do my head gasket a few years ago, i was frickin scared!!! but hey, i've just done a full engine out re-build!!!! so its amazing what us pen pushers can do!!!

[Mr Blue]

top job.

was it as easy at it looks?

[sportline_velly]

yeah it was....i took about 6 photos of the engine bay so i knew where everything went.
i alsomarked every thing so i know wot plugged in where, it made like mych simpler