simonw wrote:
Great progress timmy !
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Thanks Simon
A little more progress in the last week... The day after Rylstone the 998 was removed
I've since cleaned up the engine bay and retouched a bit of the paint so it's now ready for the new engine to go in.
I pushed the two engines side by side to figure out what I'm missing and start to clean and swap over some parts. So far this has included: water pump, radiator shroud and brackets, fan & pulley, oil filter spin on assembly, alternator brackets, oil pressure gauge adapter, clutch arm & speedo cable
I pulled off the clutch cover to remove the throwout bearing plunger and bearing (the wide face type). The 998 had another surprise for me, it still has the coil spring clutch! I'm still trying to figure out exactly what happened with the 998 was installed - originally I assumed it would have just had a whole 998 engine/gearbox installed as it was remote change. Now I'm not sure!
More parts cleaned and repainted
I checked over everything while the engine was still on the stand, installed the water pump and timing cover & set the valve tolerances
I was missing the engine dowels that locate into the gearbox case, and luckily Trevor was able to find some for me. All that was left to do now was a trial assembly to make sure everything fit and I wasn't missing anything
Bit of a strange one here, the drain hole in the bottom right of the picture appears to be a blind hole despite being tapped for a plug? I have a drain plug from another engine but it bottoms out before it seals on the washer