{"id":3037,"date":"2017-05-27T17:58:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T00:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2017-05-27T17:58:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T00:58:48","slug":"engine-refresh-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/27\/engine-refresh-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine refresh – Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valve covers went back on today.<\/p>\n

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A little gasket maker into the corners.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All the seals are done, so it’s time for the valve covers to go back on. After double-checking the torque on all the bolts I applied gasket sealer to the recommended corners, put on fresh gaskets and then put the valve covers back on.<\/p>\n

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Timing belt waiting for crank bolt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moving from the top of the engine to the front I put on the new timing belt tensioner and idler\u00a0roller. I’ll confess, getting the timing belt back on was much more of a chore than expected. There is not much space around the shroud, so the belt has to slide in perfectly straight or it binds up. There is no slack in a new belt so it was a struggle to get in. I’m not sure I would have been able to do this with the engine in the car.<\/p>\n

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Stretchy (new bolt is on left)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Along with putting in the timing belt I replaced the crank bolt. I found it fascinating that the bolt actually stretches from the torque applied to it during it’s time in the engine.<\/p>\n

If you are doing your own timing belt, I found the ECS guide<\/a> was an excellent reference. Print it out and have it on hand to supplement\u00a0whatever manual you are using.<\/p>\n

To close out the day turned my attention to the passenger side turbo and loosened the exhaust manifold.<\/p>\n

Time invested: 4 hours.<\/p>\n

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Valve covers went back on today. All the seals are done, so it’s time for the valve covers to go back on. After double-checking the torque on all the bolts I applied gasket sealer to the recommended corners, put on fresh gaskets and then put the valve covers back on. Moving from the top of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[50,54],"class_list":["post-3037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-idlecars","category-idle","tag-audi","tag-idlecars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}