In the process of cleaning the cam shaft cap seal area. Before starting, 95% of the area in this photo was covered in black oil/debris. Now, you can see the clean engine head metal but hard to wash/clean some of the area. Another reason why I prefer taking the engine out even just for TB/WP service because I can't get the brush into some of the narrow area due to the ...
Time to wash the very dirty valve covers, TB Front/Rear covers and install the new gasket on them including the TB lower cover and IGN Coil cover. This will allow liquid gasket to cure well before the re-assembly process. As reported earlier, the fixing nuts for the valve covers were very loose and the gaskets/seals were not replaced during the last TB service. This resulted ...