Recent content by Doobs

coffee is fine with me, but thanx again.

Thanx again IJ, will do both as soon as possible, and report back... if your ever in geelong let kemicalx and I know, we owe you MANY beers

Thanx IJ, At the moment my PCV system is just a can, with both the tb and accordian pipe blocked, I know this is not ideal, but doing that has done nothing either, so ill put it back to stock. For the mean time, will that cause any issues. Whats involved in a leak down test

I have just completed changing the steam seals, and there is basically no change.... I dont know what else it could be...

Thanx IJ, the PCV system is stock at the moment, im going to connect up a home made oil catch can and see if that makes any difference. If that fails, Ill replace the stem seals with the head on. And if that fails, :cry: well it sux, Ill have to pull the head off

Ey all, A while back, I pulled my soarer off the road due to the excessive smoke that was coming out of the exhaust, and I presumed it was the turbo seals... There was lots of play in the shaft and to my knowledge it was a second hand turbo... I sent it off to JPC to be rebuilt, came back...

You have probly left a plug unconnected. If i were you id recheck all your plugs.

All me and my mate did to get ours off was put 2 flywheel bolts right in, and then put a bar in between them, and chocked it on the engine stand. came off with a decent sized breaker bar.

having never done the mod, I cant speak from expereance, but dont u need to use the 7m electronics? I thought the lex electroincs were different...

How much u looking to get for the afm?

Thanx guys, sounds like im going to have to get the block machined :( guess the beast will be off the road for longer...

Ey all, As I am a victim of the grand ole 7M BHG, I have decided to replace my head gasket (amongst other things), with a cometic metal one. I have just got the head back from being surfaced and checked out, and its all sweet and smooth. Now for the block, I asked at the head shop whether...