headgasket change

[Matty]

Mani's off, front & rear coolant hoses, thermostat block on front right, lock off timing, un-tension cambelt and slide it off (if you're not changing any of it, leave the belt to one side, and do the pivot nut back up on tensioner, so when you take the nut that adjusts it out of the head, it stays in the slack position so it don't fall off and make the spring fly out..), the dowel in the side of the head on the engine mount - take out the bolt (13mm) then m10 bolt into the dowel with some big/thick washer(s) so when you screw into it, it will want to come out with the bolt, if not, just pull the fucker out with some brute force, injector lines off the injectors, take off glow plug feed, take off pipe on the vacuum pump, bracket on the crank end that holds a hose on (next to the thermostat block/fuel filter and is a 13mm on the side of the head) - (from memory), undo head bolts in opposite order of tightening sequence, lift the head and take the locating dowel out that came with it.

Reverse what you did, cleaning the faces or getting head skimmed. What ever floats your boat.

Tightening order:

8 4 1 5 9
7 3 2 6 10

Stage 1: 20nm
Stage 2: 60nm
Stage 3: 220 degrees

Job done.

Probably missed the odd bit, but most of it's there.

I suppose I should of just bullet pointed it...