take the hood off......its much easier.....hehe.....just messin witcha
are you doing it with the engine in the car, or taking it out? i woudl think taking it out makes it easier to torque down the headbolts, IMO....especially for those final 85-95 degree turns....gotta make sure you have the leverage, and the space to complete the full ~90* turn in one motion
the head gaskets are bank-specific....when you take off the first head, immediately place the new headgasket on top of the old one and make sure all the tabs/holes line up and point in the same direction.....after you find the correct gasket for that head, then do the same with the other head/gasket......once you go on to do the second head, the remaining gasket will undoubtedly be correct for that bank (assuming you did the first one correctly), but still gotta make sure the tabs are pointing the correct way (towards the front of the car, as opposed to the rear, for example)
i had to re-tap the exhaust manifold threads on my used PI heads....bolts would not go in freely.....a tap is quite cheap.....torque down the bolts in sequence (after applying hi-temp thread sealant to the threads), then go over them several times, until you feel that no bolt has loosened up and your torque wrench immediately "clicks"....that reminds me....i replaced the studs with bolts, hence why i mentioned "bolts" at the top of this paragraph....standard metric hex cap bolts with a small washer underneath (couldnt find any flanged metric hex cap bolts)
turn the crank keyway to the 10:30 position or so (puts all the pistons below deck--safe mode) like so:
mark the passenger timing chain with the slot at the bottom of the crank gear, like so:
mark the passenger timing chain and the sprocket at the dimple...it will be in this exact position if you set the crank keyway at 10:30, like so:
then mark the driver's side timing chain at the dimple on the cam sprocket like so:
now remember, at this point, you'd have to take off the passenger side timing chain and that first crank gear (stock it is a two-piece deal), to be able to mark the driver's side timing chain and the remaining crank gear.....that way each timing chain has two marks, at the crank gear and at the cam sprocket....then you can place them out of the way, remembering to place the marks accordingly with the cam sprocket and the keyway, and not the other way around
since you have windsor cams, there's no way you can mix them up....the one with the holes in the sprocket goes in the passenger side....the just position the dimples in the same orientation as when you took off the stock cams...and just put the respective timing chains back on their side, lining up the lower mark with the mark on the crank gear, and the upper mark with the dimple on the cam sprocket
anything else, just ask :thumbsup:
