More Rover 200 fun

Perywinkle

Perywinkle

Perywinkle

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After swapping the engine on a rover 200 the other week due to hgf.
I was greeted by some delicious chocolate milkshake type substance in the other half's rover's expansion tank.

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So after a good read o0f the haynes manual I set to stripping the head and associated gubbins off!

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Loooooooooooooooong head bolts!

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Pretty straight forward for the most part, till it came to timing the thing back up again.
Those forward thinking rover engineers in their wisdom, decided to put the crank timing marks in such a position that I had to remove the alternator belt, then the engine mount and drop the engine by 3 inches or so to make it visible lol.

Seems to be running good again now.

Took about 5 hours total, not bad for a first attempt.
Dunno how much a garage would charge for doing it.

Pez
 
Just unbolting and rebolting mainly, anyone could do it with a bit of elbow grease and a manual realy :)
Took a good few more chunks out my hands mind lol

Pez
 
Perywinkle said:
Dunno how much a garage would charge for doing it.

Pez
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Previous owner on my 420 turbo paid around £650, so you saved yourself some cash.
Good work. :)
 
Hope you changed the inlet manifold gasket as well, they are very prone to coolant leaks and are frequently the cause of HGF.

Idealy you should also have measured the liner heights above the deck as these are very important for the engine to hold a gasket. It should be 0.05-0.15mm with no more than 0.05mm variation between adjacent cylinders.
 
good to see another 200 in the forums! i had the head replaced on my 214 a while back.. its going fine. just a bit of piston slapback! which is anoying but the car runs great. I am starting to get my hands abit more dirty which is fun!
hope you dont mind but i am going to fire in my own rover related question in your thread
do you have idea how i can sort this rust mess out? its the only rust on the car and its starting to anoy me!

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As far as im aware the head bolts should be renewed when the heads done on a k-series.
 
Head didn't need skimming, it was just leaking bit of oil into the water and vise versa gasket hadn't properly gone yet was just blowing a little.

Inlet was not removed as I took the head off with inlet and exhaust manifolds in situ.

Some people renew bolts, others don't. They all tightened up fine for me anyway.
 
Dogbreath said:
They are fine to be re-used as long as their length is within tolerance.
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Yeah, dad recons he has used em 3 or 4 times actually with no problem on relativley high performance engines. A mate called Nick who is crazy about drums cut some head bolts down to different lengths drilled the end, hung em up and used em as chimes :D
Im quite sure the timing marks are when piston one is at tdc which is easier to find:p
 
moss said:
As far as im aware the head bolts should be renewed when the heads done on a k-series.
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They DEFINATELY should.

Re using stretch bolts like that is asking for trouble and is not the proper way to do things.

The bolts are meant to be torqued up once only.

Forget tolerances, the properties of the metal change with the stretch and heating/cooling over time.

For a few quid its not worth cutting corners.
 
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