When you put your cams in - you need green sealant on the front A bearing - be very careful with the green sealant as if you put too much on it will block the oil feed for the camshaft thrust bearing - I have seen VM dealers do this on a few occasions - and it doesn't take long for the thrust bearing to wear out!!!!
When you have the cam caps back on- clean off the excess green sealant around the A bearing as the black sealant used on the cam covers doesn't adhere to the green sealant.
on 24. Aug 2006 at 14:12:
Cheers dude
I imagine changing the clutch isn't much fun on the omega though....Although i'll be changing the flywheel as well as the clutch once she's up and running! lol
Well i'm back on track! Slackened off all the head bolts in the reverse sequence and then removed one at a time, cleaned it, put it back in finger tight, removed again and cleaned again and repeated this about 3-4 times on each bolt! Got the majority of the oil out....Tbh i only dipped the tip (about an inch) of each bolt in oil, scraped off the excess on the oil container top and then fitted the bolts, so i don't think it was excessive in the first place, but better safe than sorry.
So now the head bolts are re-torqued to 25NM, PAS pump re-fitted (along with earth cable and supporting bracket), water pump fitted and torqued, a couple of coolant pipes. Now i'm waiting on my torque angle gauge (my mates bringing one round today) so i can finish torqueing (sp?) the heads, then fit the cams, the PAS pump pulley, crank pulley, water pump pulley and then it's time to get her timed up
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