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Mar 24th, 2020, 17:58 | #511 |
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I couldn't find a torque setting in the Book of Haynes, so I took a SWAG and did them up very carefully and evenly to 60 lbf.in (my small torque wrench is quite an old one!). If anyone knows any better then tell me - but it seems to have nipped everything up nicely and more importantly - the oil leak seems to be fixed. I always put a smear of grease around the edge of gaskets - it gives a good indication that everything has mated properly when I can see it pushed out (a motorbike trick - particularly useful on air cooled aluminium engines where torque settings are really low). I found the reason it was leaking straight away (I nearly always find something odd that a PO has done on this car), instead of having one gasket, the Royal Barge had two: As you may see, instead of changing the gasket (I'm guessing when the cam belt was changed at 100,000 miles) a PO put another one on top. I don't know why (everything seems to be straight and level), I hope some underlying issue doesn't appear. Anyway, if you look at the top of the photo you will see that the lower of the two gaskets did not line up with the top one, leaving a gap, which was exactly where the oil leak appeared. I ran the car up to temperature (until the electric fan kicked in, just to make sure it was all working) and there didn't appear to be any oil leaking now. The underneath was given a good clean up while it was up on the ramps and I've put an oil tray under to see if the problem is solved for good. Unfortunately I will not be able to give it a proper test until I next go food shopping, but I think this is fixed. Many thanks, Alan Last edited by Othen; Mar 24th, 2020 at 18:19. Reason: Spelling. |
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I had a thought whilst looking through the spares box the PO gave me today: I have needed quite a few of the bits he gave me (thermostat, drop links, this gasket, bulb holders... probably more), and I found an oil pan gasket. I became a bit concerned that the auto box might be leaking - so I gave it a good check over while it was up on the ramps.
My theory is that the PO had intended to change the ATF (it certainly needed doing) and was going to do so by dropping the pan (which works of course, but is really messy). I hope I'm right! Alan |
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Just had a look in my Haynes, nothing for the B23/230 for the torque figure on the rocker cover gaskets either but on the B2828/280, they quote a figure of 11lb/ft but that's a V6 with alloy rocker covers. You're certainly in the ball park, even with a SWAG on it.
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If they're not leaking, i'd leave them be for now, only tighten them a wee bit if and when it seeps a little. Chances are with only one gasket on there it won't leak until you need to remove the rocker cover for something anyway.
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I nipped up the nuts to 80 lbf.in today, that seems fine and the oil leak seems to be sorted. I wonder what the story was about the two gaskets - we will never know! Alan Last edited by Othen; Mar 25th, 2020 at 19:24. |
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Hopefully that's your leak sorted!
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Headlamp Washers/Wipers
... and today's big news is: both headlamp washers and wipers are working (well, 90% true).
I don't think these had worked for many years (particularly the washers as the jets were missing). It was a nice day and I had nowhere to go, so I thought I'd find out what was wrong with these. The driver's side wiper more or less worked, the passenger side one had been intermittent, but stopped a few weeks ago. I pulled the passenger side motor out (took about 3 minutes, just plastic clips hold the grille and headlamp trim on to the Royal Barge). There was clearly something wrong because the wiper spindle turned with no resistance. It was obvious someone had tried a repair in the past because the plastic back to the enclosure had been prised off and not replaced properly, so the little metal hockey stick con-rod that converts rotary to reciprocating motion had fallen out (hence no resistance at the shaft). I gave everything a clean up, put the con-rod back properly lubricated with grease and replaced the enclosure better than it had been previously (pretty firmly with a couple of zip ties). Once reassembled, much to my amazement, the left side wiper worked (except it parks where it likes), but the driver's side one had stopped. The fault turned out to be the 40 year old electrical connectors by the expansion tank. Once taken apart, sprayed, scraped and pushed back together a bit more firmly both units joined in. More good news was that the washer modification (bodge using two cheap Chinese windscreen washer jets) works fine as well. They just needed a new T junction/valve to make them operate properly. I think this is as good as I can make it. I suspect I could make the left hand unit park properly - it is probably just some little leaf switch that needs cleaning up or bending back into place - but I don't think the enclosure would take being disassembled again, the plastic is quite brittle. So, I'll live with a 90% solution: with clean headlamps, and accept that one of the wipers parking wherever it likes is part of the 40 year old 'patina' for the Royal Barge. :-) Last edited by Othen; Mar 26th, 2020 at 16:35. Reason: Grammar. |
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My left headlight wiper salutes you for your efforts Alan! Joking aside, a very productive day! Well done! Another little "tidy and make good" job that will improve the car overall ticked off the list!
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