Frighten me

Frighten me and tell me roughly how much I'll be looking to pay a main dealer to sort out the valve stems seals so I no longer drive a smokey starter??

alot. probably at least £1k

iloveics wrote: alot. probably at least £1k

Now I am, really frightened.

Last time I did a job like this without lifting the head I stuffed God knows what in the bore to keep the valves up. That was aeons ago.

If I were you I would get the head off a crash damaged jimny and rebuild it then whack it on yours.
shouldn't be to bad considering yours in cambelt single cam engine? (1999?)

You may find it will need valve guides as well as stem seals its not a hard job to take the head off its just adjusting the tapets after that i found to be a pain

Why take it to a main dealer any garage should be more than capable to do it

I rebuilt my engine while it was still in the car in my home garage

markyp2000 wrote: Why take it to a main dealer any garage should be more than capable to do it

I don't particular;y trust a main dealer more but they are more likely to have done a job like this before.

mlines wrote: Actually I would suggest its less likely that a main dealer will have done it.

I would guess they would not rebuild anything, they would just bolt on a brand new, pre-assembled component.

I would find a local engineering specialist,

Like a new engine complete?

At the end of the day an engine is an engine but that just bolt to gether in different ways
And one can be a machanic and take things apart the hard be is putting it back together with out having bits left over after weeeks of it being apart

markyp2000 wrote: At the end of the day an engine is an engine but that just bolt to gether in different ways
And one can be a machanic and take things apart the hard be is putting it back together with out having bits left over after weeeks of it being apart

When I was younger a) I had more energy and drive to do jobs like this and b) the manuals were aimed a lot more at DIYers like me. The last biggish job I did like this was to replace the clutch on my LJ80 - you can tell how far back that was. 20 years ago I would not have hesitated.

Oh, and motors were simpler.

mlines wrote: Actually I would suggest its less likely that a main dealer will have done it.

I would guess they would not rebuild anything, they would just bolt on a brand new, pre-assembled component.

I would find a local engineering specialist,

I totally agree with this, My brother has been a mechanic for over 30 years working in dealerships. He hates the fact that they dont fix anything these days they just bolt on new parts.

Ian

Hastiekid wrote:

mlines wrote: Actually I would suggest its less likely that a main dealer will have done it.

I would guess they would not rebuild anything, they would just bolt on a brand new, pre-assembled component.

I would find a local engineering specialist,

I totally agree with this, My brother has been a mechanic for over 30 years working in dealerships. He hates the fact that they dont fix anything these days they just bolt on new parts.

Ian

So how much for them to bolt on a new/recon head do we think.

I should phone them but I know they are going to quote silly money. I only bought goldilocks about a month ago and the smokey @*@@* is the only real problem. Otherwise I love it.

The one thing the DIYer has is time and no mechanic gives that up for free but life is too short these days to waste a weekend on it.