Head Gasket Replacement?

Bought one of these, while it's cheaply made it did just the job and easier to control than the lever type ones.
A few of the valve seals were not seated and must have been moving up and down with the valves and letting oil through.

Anaconda said:

US PRO Car Van Motorbike 9pc Valve Spring Compressor Bit Set Kit 5582 | eBay

Supplied in a blow. Spring compressor "C" clamp. Allows you to correctly fit the valve springs as it makes it easier to compress the springs. Adaptors to fit valve springs correctly and allow safe and easy compression.

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Bought one of these, while it's cheaply made it did just the job and easier to control than the lever type ones.
A few of the valve seals were not seated and must have been moving up and down with the valves and letting oil through.

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Some of that uspro gear is pretty bloody good.
DSD tools in Gravesend (also on ebay) seem good on prices.
Bought these recently 110 quid.
Named ones would be that price per socket.

lynall said:

Some of that uspro gear is pretty bloody good.
DSD tools in Gravesend (also on ebay) seem good on prices.
Bought these recently 110 quid.
Named ones would be that price per socket.

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Can’t see a 10mm. Must be a cheap set

Cleaning carbon deposits from the upper part of the valves, soaking in some WD40 at the moment, might losen it up a bit.
What's the recommend way to do it at home?

plastic paint stripper wheel for a drill gets it off. I have a lathe so put the valve in that and just push the wheel onto it by hand

Amazon product

Anaconda said:

Cleaning carbon deposits from the upper part of the valves, soaking in some WD40 at the moment, might losen it up a bit.
What's the recommend way to do it at home?

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I used a cup brush in mini grinder

Was hoping to get the head back on and up and running this weekend.
Due to inexperience, or stupidly, I damaged the first valve stem seal so that plan went out the window!
Spent the day cleaning up intercooler pipes, intake manifold and the rest. Freed off the rocker adjusters and lock nuts and general tidying up as I seem to have used every tool I own!
Better order some more seals now.

Don’t buy the cheapest I’ve had some before and seem quite loose when pushed home
cant recall if the inlets or exhaust ones have the spring on , logic says inlet but not sure

steve2286w said:

Don’t buy the cheapest I’ve had some before and seem quite loose when pushed home

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The ones I bought are Elring and came in the top end gasket kit. They are tight to get on, had to use hammer and a socket.
Exact opposite to the ones which came off, two fell off and the rest pulled off with my hand.

yes i used the elring set seems to work well

Bare with me as its silly question time! (Yes another one)
Can I fit the head one evening and do the first sequence of bolting the head down and then the next two sequences with the angle gauge the following evening?

Yes no problem, when I did mine was a bit worried I’d miss one or do one twice so I numbered the bolt heads and ticked each one off on sheet at the different stages

steve2286w said:

Yes no problem, when I did mine was a bit worried I’d miss one or do one twice so I numbered the bolt heads and ticked each one off on sheet at the different stages

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Thanks. I was going to number the bolts also to save keep going back to the manual.
Good idea with a tick list, will do that aswell.

Yippee it's back together, apart from exhaust, antifreeze and then starting it up.
Must of set the valve clearances atleast 10 times just to make sure!

Just done my 200tdi but I fitted a Turner Engineering gas flowed head.

johnlad said:

Just done my 200tdi but I fitted a Turner Engineering gas flowed head.

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Interesting, their website said out of stock for 200tdi heads

I contacted them directly and they sold me there display one.

johnlad said:

I contacted them directly and they sold me there display one.

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Sounds like they are out of stock then.

They will have my old one next week, as there’s a surcharge on the head , so they will be reconditioning that

Quite common to find the valve stem seals have migrated up the valve stem!