schoey
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Registered: 29th Jun 05
Location: Billinghay, Lincolnshire
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are there any things i should consider when rebuilding my engine to do with lubrication for initial start up?
when i rebuilt my engine before, one of the tappets has always tapped!! how can i avoid this happening again? just make sure there cleaned out thoroughly?
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
Location: West Yorkshire
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Stand them in clean oil for ages before you reinstall them... my xe ones have been in castrol for months now... and it turned black as night with the crap that came outta them 
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casper_ac
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Registered: 25th Mar 03
Location: Belfast
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is hard hard to strip and rebuild an engine...im thinking along the line of gsi corsa one.
are there any guides etc manuals?
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Rileysport
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Registered: 18th Jun 04
Location: West Yorkshire
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Haynes, plenty of time, correct tools, some common sense and of course beer 
that how i did my last one
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casper_ac
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Registered: 25th Mar 03
Location: Belfast
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ah haynes actually has a guide on how to do it...didt think itd be that comprehensive a guide. good job!
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Siberia
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Registered: 9th Oct 03
Location: Leprechaun Land Drives : Zafira GSI
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quote:
Originally posted by SRi-Co
Haynes, plenty of time, correct tools, some common sense and of course beer
that how i did my last one
were did you get the bits for the 2.0 rebuild? i should be taking delivery of the lump next week...
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