Another TB42 to TD42 Conversion

Thanks Dale, will do ...

Thanks to Dale,
I checked the squirter alignment last night, they were all good except for one in the middle (cylinder 3) was slightly off center to the hole in the piston, it would have been ok, but i aligned it a bit better.

Thanks again for the heads up Dale..

A little more Progress This Sunday: Had a Head Job : ;)

Will get around to checking the Valve clearances this week..

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Attachment 56537 Last night I picked up my high-flow water pump and thermostat from 4x4 adventure Club Sponsor, Adam, at ADM Motors (Nuts about 4WD) in Caulfield South, these are much better than the original pumps and also come with two gaskets (one thin and one thick) the reason being is that the water pump blades can sometimes catch the housing so if they do they say to use the thicker gasket so that the impeller doesn't foul on the housing.
A mate has been kind enough to lend me his special purpose tool so that I can correctly set up my VE pump timing advancing it to about 0.76mm, this is much easier to do out of the car than in, and before I attach all the injector lines & intake manifold.

I’m just keeping busy trying to get it back together, I think it’s going pretty well so far, next on my list will be the last of my big purchases, I need a manifold and turbo.. $$ ouch.

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Had another busy day in the garage over the weekend:
Timed up my Diesel pump (0.76mm @ TDC)
Got most of the motor re-assembled.
Just ordered my Turbo ... $$ Ouch.

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On Thursday 2nd April I went down to MTQ Engine Systems in Hammond Road Dandenong to pick up my new DTS low mount turbo exhaust manifold and it looks awesome. I will wait to bolt this on though as I should receive my turbo in a few days, so I will most likely put the turbo on the manifold first then bolt the entire assembly to the block.


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Hi I am about to go through this I have an Auto TB42E will the flexi plate bolt up and with the 18g turbo is it best to source a GU 11mm pump......

I doubt it mate as the starter motor on the TD42 has 3 holes and they are in a different position to the TB42 i suspect the flexplate is a different size too, but not sure.
I changed Bellhousing but mine is a manual so has no flexplate with my TD42 motor.

18g Turbo = 11mm pump

im going to be running a TD05 16G 8mm and the 10mm pump is stretching the love a bit, but i should just get away with it.

Had some fruit arrive in the post yesterday.... :049:

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Nice.......