Roverwhelming: 800 comes out to play

[RoadworkUK]

I havent even got a driveway to mess around with my cars, all that happens on the road.

 

A garage is a bit of a luxury, except the Rover is so vast it literally fills it up; I have to stand outside under the shelter of the garage door to do any work!

 

Mum and Dad are having to live with some upheaval, such as no longer being able to access the garage using th internal door. Dad has to go outside, in the rain and through the up-and-over every time he wants a fag. Good time to give up, then...

[daverapid]

Good luck with it...do you have a manual to show you how to time it up? If not I've got Autodata, more than happy to send you the info.

[KruJoe]

It does sound like he's manual'd up to the eyeballs.

I'm interested to see how this goes, you're a brave man Earl! I'll need to get in a bit deeper than I comfortable with too, in the near future.

[ashmicro]

RAVE and Autodata here too, just putting the offer out there.

[Cavcraft]

RAVE and Autodata here too, just putting the offer out there.

 

 

I don't see how throwing some shapes in his garage is going to help but each to their own

 

Looking forward to future installments RW, good to see someone have a go themselves.

[RoadworkUK]

Cheers all:- It's not going to be a quick process: I can only work on the car outside working hours, and my Girlfriend warrants at least some of my time and attention, lest she buggers off.

 

Got 3 Haynes Manuals (none of which cover the KV6, natch), RAVE (yo), various online photographic walk-throughs, and a Dad to bounce ideas off and hit stuff with a hammer extra hard.

 

Autodata sounds rather horny, though. How does it compare to RAVE?

 

(Yo).

[Lankytim]

Lovely motor you have there, I'm a fan of 800's and would have snapped one up had the right one come along at the right time. They all tend to be saloons and i'd really have to have a hatch for practical reasons. I think i'd have to have a regular K series one too for ease of maintenance! One of those cars that I would have owned, but probably never will!

 

I remember reading a copy of Car Mechanics mag a couple of years ago which incuded an article on doing the cambelt on a KV6 Rover 75. Apparently its not mega difficult, just very labour intensive, cam locking tools are a must and the job must not be attempted without them!

 

Once you have it all together (and running) give yourself a pat on the back and have a nice cup of tea!

[RoadworkUK]

....Cam locking tools are a must and the job must not be attempted without them!

 

Ha! Going into battle without the right tools and only a partly formed idea of what I'm doing, it's the stuff of champions!

[KruJoe]

LOLz @ new sig

[RoadworkUK]

Frigging workshop manuals.

 

Since last turning a spanner on monday I've been a bit stuck (qu'elle suprise). To safely remove the belt without sending the timing all bananas, it is imperative that you lock the engine internals. To achieve this you have to use Rover Special Tool ST677-78877_*99.underscore879sub-section6paragraph9. (or an M6 bolt, handily enough). What it doesn't tell you is WHERE TO PUT THE BLOODY THING.

 

It describes the hole as simply a "Crank Locking Hole". QED; I scoured every area of the lower crankcase for a cheeky hole by which to jam the crank. I've found it now, it actually engages with the flywheel, through a hole that isn't in the crankcase as per the manual, at all.

 

Anyway. Work can now continue. But not tonight as it's far too late, nor tomorrow as my girlfriend will be round and she's not into getting that kind of dirty. And it won't be Saturday as the Colchester Summer Beer Festival is on (Trigger, I expect you to be there, or there'll be trouble).

 

Sunday, then. Cock your ear in the direction of Frinton-On-Sea and see if you can hear swearing.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

good work Earl, my 220 has a similar set up, took a while to find it as it was bunged up with sludge and totally invisiblee.

[RoadworkUK]

Well, chicken counting and all that, but THE CAMBELT IS ON! We've even hand-turned the crank a few times to check. No skipping, slipping or sickening crunches so far.

 

After considerable enfaffment and an amount of swearing, we drew to an inevitable conclusion; you should not attempt this job without the facility to obtain or create specialist tools. From the outset we couldn't see why the Rover "special tools" were so essential, but when you're trying to hold two separate exhaust cams against the force of their valve springs, while trying to thread a long floppy belt around three cogs and three pulleys, you need about seven hands.

 

My most excellent father came up trumps by creating a pair of tools for turning and/or locking the cams in place. I bought him a Toblerone.

 

So, one down, two to go! Phull photographic phresentation to follow on completion, you lucky, lucky bastards.

[Rod/b]

Nice to see someone bothering with a KV6.

 

I'll be totally honest, if i was given a free 800 with that engine that happened to need a cambelt, i'd weigh it straight in with visions of imminent steam and mayonnaise playing through my mind the whole time, then go down the pub and pretend it never happened.

 

So good on you!

[RoadworkUK]

I'll be totally honest, if i was given a free 800 with that engine that happened to need a cambelt, i'd weigh it straight in

 

The thought did cross my mind as soon as there was more metal on the floor than in the engine bay.

[Danblez]

Top darts, I look forward to the write up!

[Lankytim]

Yay, TOP WORK!!

[dollywobbler]

Fantastic. A job where a Toblerone is essential is a quality job indeed! Maybe that could have been used as a locking tool...

[Rocket88]

Fantastic. A job where a Toblerone is essential is a quality job indeed! Maybe that could have been used as a locking tool...

 

Confectionary as "special tools" thread anyone? Twix bar as clutch aligning tooll? Curly Whirly instead of chemical metal? Cadburys Cream Egg instead of Barr's leaks? Cruchie bars as cill reinforcment devices [we keep being told that a honeycomb struture is the strongest thing of evah] Wrigley's finest instead of wob?

[HillmanImp]

Confectionary as "special tools" thread anyone? Twix bar as clutch aligning tooll? Curly Whirly instead of chemical metal? Cadburys Cream Egg instead of Barr's leaks? Cruchie bars as cill reinforcment devices [we keep being told that a honeycomb struture is the strongest thing of evah] Wrigley's finest instead of wob?

 

I used a Boost bar to put a gauge for my Turbo on my dashboard and have an ocuplet of Aeros in case my Morgan ever breaks down.

[tonedepear]

My sills are broadly the same colour as the inside of a crunchie bar.

[Pillock]

I'm going to draw the obvious parallel between my Golf's sills and a Flake.

 

Except without that bint in the bath.

[CreepingJesus]

Crikey! Off topic? As long as it doesnt turn into a Marathon session, it'll be fine, eh?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Crikey! Off topic? As long as it doesnt turn into a Marathon session, it'll be fine, eh?

 

Thats a good one

[dollywobbler]

Crikey! Off topic? As long as it doesnt turn into a Marathon session, it'll be fine, eh?

 

Thats a good one

 

Made me Snicker...

[Rod/b]

II entered a marathon once. Wouldn't do it again though; i got a peanut stuck up my knob.

[Shep Shepherd]

II entered a marathon once. Wouldn't do it again though; i got a peanut stuck up my knob.

 

[RoadworkUK]

Tangentially related;

 

My dear departed Uncle Ted worked for Mars in Slough right until his retirement. He told me once that, when they were expanding and updating the factory they found that some of the internal walls were made partially from chocolate. It would seem that the employees had taken to using handfuls of molten nougat in place of polyfilla when the walls got damaged. It was then painted over and never seen again.

 

He drove a G reg' Camry V6 by the way, and was a crashingly superb gent.

 

Also, work has started on my two rear cambelts, but somehow since last nights Chappel Cider Festival I've managed to put my back out.

[RoadworkUK]

Pissing fark.

 

Owing to the spectacular amount of effort this cambelt is requiring, I've opted to just finish the main cambelt, putting her back together to see how she goes, changing the aux belt while I'm at it, and leaving the slightly less bastardly two rear cambelts to do later on.

 

I'm getting really close to having the whole lot back together, and was test-fitting the inlet manifold chamber, reconnecting the dozen or so vacuum pipes and multiplug, when we suddenly spotted this:-

 

 

That's the feed from the expansion tank, and it's trapped the wrong side of the PAS pump, where the pulley will NOM its way through in short order.

 

So, tomorrow the fanbelt's coming off again, and then the PAS pump. All to move something we should have spotted before reassembly.

 

Arse burgers.

[Father Ted]

FLANGE

 

That is all

[dollywobbler]

Yup. Been there. Getting the exhaust manifold back onto the 2CV and sealed perfectly (which is not easy!). Then realising that the cowling is meant to go on BEFORE the manifold. DOH!