Starter motor in place. Get this in while the engine is out otherwise difficult to get to the securing bolts.
Neil and I put the engine in before breakfast, only took 30 minutes. I suppose this is the third, or is it the forth time it's gone in so we should have the hang of it by now.
All the drive shaft bolts should be put into the holes in the diff side before lining up the gearbox holes otherwise it's not possible to get some of them in.
This is how the gear lever goes back. Otherwise it will hit against the drive shaft connector.
I put the SC on once and didn't like the way the engine bracket fitted so took it all off and started again. Besides I inadvertently swapped a couple of sensor connectors and they are under the SC.
Pulled all the fuses out as I didn't want the fuel pump on when testing compression. Ended up pulling the connectors off the pump as none of the fuses disconnected it.
Injector rail bolted back on and temperature sensor on the inlet manifold connected up.
Exhaust manifold on. Also the rest of the exhaust, Lambda, radiator, hoses etc.
Put all the plugs back in except cylinder 1 and tested compression. 12.0:1, which is pretty good.
Cylinder 2, one where I changed piston and rings was 13.5:1. Isn't that very good? Then I tried cylinder 3, no point in showing a photo as there was absolutely no compression, zero, zilch!
Cylinder 4 very good too ...
14.5:1
So why is cylinder 3 showing nothing! It has a new piston and rings. The valve seatings were tested and A-OK. Someone please tell me it's completely normal and it'll simply burst into life and, most importantly of all - I won't need to take the bloody engine out again!
UPDATE: I put a little oil into the spark plug hole and checked the compression - no difference. So I waited an hour for the oil to settle and tried again. The compression went up slightly to about 2 bar. I also took the valve cover off and all the valves seem to be working fine.
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