Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

New CRK/CYL sensor installed and carefully torqued the fixing bolts.






All four cam shafts ...

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Before backing off the valve clearance adjusters, checked the
current valve clearance.
They were all over the place and #1 exh side were out of the spec.
Rest of them were at the limit but within the spec.




All four camshafts looked fine under the initial inspection with
extra scratch marking at #3 cyl intake cam robe.
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Tags: cam robe, crank oil seal, crk/cyl sensor, cyl/crk sensor, melted potting, potting, tb back cover

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Another catch up updating the blog....







The original coating of the valve cover was already contaminated
at different level at many places.
Also, part of the coating was already missing exposing ...

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Original design WP.

It is quite normal to see tiny amount of coolant at the drain hole over
many years but this one looked to be already blocked.

The bearing was nearly dead with small rattle and making squeaking noise
when spinning by hand.



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Updated 14-10-2013 at 12:34 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: crank seal, crk/cyl sensor, cyl/crk sensor, tb back cover, tb cover, water pump

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However, the TB tension was way too low.
If I wanted, I could have twisted the existing TB 180deg.
Didn't want to put too much tension so stopped at 90deg in this photo.





Most of the ...

Updated 02-09-2013 at 10:50 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: blowby, cyl sensor, cyl/crk sensor, oil cooler, tb tension, tb tension adjuster, tb tensioner, timing belt, valve cover

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