Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

What a humid day it was.
Completely exhausted after going through the long hours
valve clearance adjustment.

I have no problem carrying out the TB/WP service without
taking the engine out of the chassis but for cleaning the engine
and replacing the LMA, I’ll definitely take the engine out
if I have to do this again.




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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , Engine/Tyre

TB back covers installed.








There are several ...

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , Engine/Tyre

After thoroughly cleaning the LMA pocket,
fresh Mobil 1 poured into there in preparation for
the new style LMA installation.







The new design LMA.
This is the ver.305 that ...

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , Engine/Tyre

So, finally decided to remove the valve cover and pressed on the LMA before removing the cam shafts.





Please note that in this video, it’s not the metal noise that we are looking for.
It’s the speed of the LMA getting back to its normal height.

This was taken at #1 TDC so #5 is at exhaust TDC which means all four valves are closed and all six rocker arms are free. #6 is in the ...

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , Engine/Tyre

So, after receiving the NSX from the owner, I had to make phone call because I couldn’t recreate the same noise and even placed my mobile phone above the engine so that the owner could listen to it.

However, while we were on the phone, suddenly the noise started to immerge randomly so I had to quickly put the car on the lift to listen to the noise from top, bottom, left and right.

Although the noise was very likely to be from LMA, it was hard ...

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA , Engine/Tyre