Jake Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 How can I tell which cam cap goes where? In Tony License's How to:- Valve Stem Seal Replacement guide it says the caps are "stamped with their number on top, along with an arrow that points towards the front of the engine" but mine aren't! Mine have letters on them rather than numbers and some are the other way around to most of them. There's no arrows on them indicate the correct orientation. It just doesn't look right to me. Should I just refit them in the same order they came off ? Thanks for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk-rich Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 assuming the engine has not been in bits before, and you know the order they came off in, back in the same order Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soonto_HAS_soop Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Looking at your photo and Tony's how to, his seemed to have letters and not numbers, and I think that I can see some faint arrows on the centre (raised area) on some of your caps. F, 1 up from the bottom on the left seems to have an arrow shape in the centre area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 I'm sure they have numbers on as well (Probably the one thing I didn't get a picture of - typical!). Maybe stamped onto one of the side faces. E1, E2, E3 etc, I1 I2 I3.... I vaguely remember them being quite faint. Give them a real good clean up in some oil and see if you can make anything out. Dammit, I'm gutted that I didn't take a picture of it. I'm quite close to gettting the spanners out... then again it is bloody cold. Sorry Jake! In fact the more I think about it I'm pretty certain they had numbers on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TLicense Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Yep found it. It's in the middle on the raised bit, you can just make it out on this inlet number 1 bearing cap. It reads I1 .:- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Fantastic! Thanks Tony. I'll go have another look in a minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonball Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Jake Be really careful with these mate - same order in and out is mega important...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soonto_HAS_soop Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Fantastic! Thanks Tony. I'll go have another look in a minute. Oh great thank him!! LOL!! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wilson Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Soak them in cellulose thinners or acetone to clean them, looks like that engines done a few miles! Or the oil hasn't been changed regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 Oh great thank him!! LOL!! :D Sorry Ben, I just didn't believe you looks like that engines done a few miles! Or the oil hasn't been changed regularly. It was due an oil change but the engine has done less than 40k miles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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