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Many years ago I nearly lost an eye replacing the original bolts on my father-in-law's cylinder head, torqueing them down in sequence, when there was a noise like a gun going off, and I felt agonising pain in my right eye. The bolt head had sheared off one of the bolts I had tightened, flew forward (transverse engine), and hit me on the eyebrow. Bled like a stuck pig, and had to go to A&E for x-ray and stitches. half an inch lower, it would have been straight in the eye. I never thought I needed safety goggles to re-fit a cylinder head... I didn't even realise what had hit me until afterwards. So please be careful!

 

Mike.

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quite believe it...........i have put a few heads down and never had a bolt snap........but it always worries me that i am on the limit...and is the torque bar calibrated right !........so i always go to the lower limit on the setting.............might invest in a torque multiplier....it will make it easier to kill myself then... :lol:

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havnt done anything today on the engine......i have an MOT coming up and i needed to get the "A" frame off and renew the bushes and the joint........easy enough to get off...then putting it on found these polybushes needed 1/2mm taking off...the inserts are a little wider than the original metalastiic bushes...what a pain ...so it had to come off again...............im knacked !.......shouldnt be doing this anymore at my time of life... :lol:

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getting the oil line pipes sorted out............this one goes from the block to the turbo...i have modified the bracket a bit ..as it used to have a fibreglass heat shoud att' to it which was as much use as a chocolate teapot...


this bits attatches to the airbox..........

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the pics are getting mixed up so you will have to sort it out yourself...sorry/......this is the bleed back from the head to the block....and the others are the turbo pipe...and new dowty seals......


These are the new Dowty seals/washers....and the union to which they belong.........

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