I really appreciate you posting your work on the Delica as you go. There isn't a ton of info on these and you make the jobs reasonable with your approach. Thank you for taking the time!
Fair play to you Shane! I took a few heads off motorbikes and also a MK2 Ford escort, much easier and a long time ago. I don't like working at motors anymore...the right tools and facilities make it easier, I used to get rained on much too often and back and forth to the shed does my head in...excuse the unintended pun 😂
Hahahahahaha yeah it's a pain keep finding out you need forgot some tool it's even worse when you need the missis too come keep an eye out on you're gear each time you go round back to the shed to find it. Down side of living in a built up area on a main road.... trust no one lol.
@@smithbuilt Yeah, my missis wouldn't be into that, I have to stick my tools into my van to do a shed run 🙄 I have a driveway but it's hard to get access to...then one of my dogs thinks it's fun to piss on my tools. He almost pissed on a plugged in electric planer once ha! He did manage to pee in a box of goodies that was to be given to my son...nightmare if you take your eyes off him lol.
@@pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN one of my dogs bit through my power lead on my laptop. We were watching a film in bed in the dark and you just heard a snap a whimper and in the flash my dog mid air as he jumped to the other side of the room. It was so funny I didnt care about my lead.... dog never went near the laptop again. Love my dogs they do my head in and theres 7 of them and there all whippets but it never dull lol. My drive is just some scalping mixed into my dads front garden it's very high end quality
@@smithbuilt Oh No lol, I was worried about one of my dogs doing that...the pisser, he was also a chewing machine ha! Yeah' I like a little hording too mate!
@@pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN my lot are okay but, when my girls are in heat my boys act like stupid muppets drives me crazy. I did have a dog pee up my dad when he was unclogging the lawnmower once that was funny to watch
Thanks, to be honest I think the garage I took it to originally just didnt tighten the bolts correctly when they did it. As after I put a new gasket on it's been fine.
I just hope it goes back together lol. To be fair I wasnt rushing it as I had to work it out as I go seeing as I've not done this job before.but rather me do it then the local Mitsubishi specialist I went to before, The place really ripped me off they said 1.4k supply and fit then 3k later I got the car back... took them to trading standards as there was so many issues, like none of my cars electrics worked, I had a exhaust gas leak into the engine bay that ended up in the cockpit, they told me my fuel pump was shot.... I rebuilt it my self less then a year before but I took them a spare pump I had just refurbished and suddenly it worked. There were just so many issues with the experience I'll never but my cars in a garage again.
I think I did say how much in the video but it was around £60 i think for the gasket kit. The head was my original one I just had it pressure tested to be sure it was good and that was about £40 from memory
Nicely done i wish one day i do this for my car like fix it and stuff i guess your doing all this out by the side walk i would thought u would drive the vehicle in your yard to work on it so u dont get snoopy neighbors
Yeah I'm road side, well I'm in the front garden. But I've done engine swaps on the road outside it all depends on what car is sat where. Unfortunately there is no access for a car to my shed. I have stairs to go up and down plus a 42" pinch point down the ally between 2 gardens. Turn out My house isnt ideal for the hobby I ended up doing. It was ideal back when I was a progressive metal drummer as I'm right next to the m27 motorway
Just the gasket, I took the head to be pressure tested after I had checked for flatness on my surface plate just to be sure. Thanks for watching I'm glad you liked it
@@smithbuiltbetween this video and the second one, you cleaned the bloke and left it ready to put the new gasket, would you mind telling me how did you clean ?
Hey mate, did you remove the tensioner at all? Doesn’t look like you did, thought it would have tightened the chain more without loosening it off before removing the cam sprocket
Hello, if you're onabout getting the manifold out, from memory it's the intake manifold first then exhaust. I do remember it being fiddly but I don't think I had to mess with the turbo
Literally just remember where they go mate. I've taken most the auxiliary components of the engines at some point so all that was new to me was the head bolts and little case an timing bolts
A good trick is to get a bit of cardboard, and for each bolt, poke it through the cardboard, then mark on the cardboard what the bolt is. You can keep like with like, and even copy patterns on the engine.
Hi, I didn't remove it, there is enough movement in the tensioning spring to allow you to slip the chain off and back on again with a little mechanical advantage and to keep my timing mark I simply cable tied through the sprocket and around the chain
You still running this ol' beaut on waste oil? I got my truck a bit warm last year with a blocked injector, the sort of thing that could banana a head although I had absolutely no probs bananaing my pajy on forecourt fuel.
Yeah I was running waste oil, probably 2 wo too 1 diesel as it was cold weather. I had thought could the oil kill it as I think it burns hotter but, I dont thrash the motor I drive at 60mph on the motorway and I'd not towed with this one. Friends say I drive like miss daisy. Would just running with waste oil cause it? The head is totally flat btw. But I did have issues with the garage and I had got trading standards involved and it did end up with them fixing there cock ups.... I wonder if they may have loosened a bolt or two or if the apprentice there let do my car had messed up due to no experience. Turns out the Mitsubishi specialist I went to is only really interested in high power cars and not old 4x4s
@@smithbuilt I was filtering down to 1 micron and still got a bad spray pattern that lead to my temps rising, like you I want my old mota to last forever so drive accordingly! It's the muck from the burn clogging my nozzle rather than sediment. I don't think there's enough load on those massive studs to have them stretch so if you found em loose that's probably the fault.
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I really appreciate you posting your work on the Delica as you go. There isn't a ton of info on these and you make the jobs reasonable with your approach.
Thank you for taking the time!
You're very welcome. It's nice to know people appreciate it. Makes it worth the effort of filming it all
Will watch this later. Thanks for sharing! 👍
Any time
Fair play to you Shane! I took a few heads off motorbikes and also a MK2 Ford escort, much easier and a long time ago. I don't like working at motors anymore...the right tools and facilities make it easier, I used to get rained on much too often and back and forth to the shed does my head in...excuse the unintended pun 😂
Hahahahahaha yeah it's a pain keep finding out you need forgot some tool it's even worse when you need the missis too come keep an eye out on you're gear each time you go round back to the shed to find it. Down side of living in a built up area on a main road.... trust no one lol.
@@smithbuilt Yeah, my missis wouldn't be into that, I have to stick my tools into my van to do a shed run 🙄 I have a driveway but it's hard to get access to...then one of my dogs thinks it's fun to piss on my tools.
He almost pissed on a plugged in electric planer once ha! He did manage to pee in a box of goodies that was to be given to my son...nightmare if you take your eyes off him lol.
@@pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN one of my dogs bit through my power lead on my laptop. We were watching a film in bed in the dark and you just heard a snap a whimper and in the flash my dog mid air as he jumped to the other side of the room. It was so funny I didnt care about my lead.... dog never went near the laptop again. Love my dogs they do my head in and theres 7 of them and there all whippets but it never dull lol. My drive is just some scalping mixed into my dads front garden it's very high end quality
@@smithbuilt Oh No lol, I was worried about one of my dogs doing that...the pisser, he was also a chewing machine ha!
Yeah' I like a little hording too mate!
@@pa_maj.MARTINI-van-MAN my lot are okay but, when my girls are in heat my boys act like stupid muppets drives me crazy. I did have a dog pee up my dad when he was unclogging the lawnmower once that was funny to watch
How did you go about the timing I’m sure I could t hear you say?! Great video tho made my life 100x easier
I used a cable tie. Put it through the hole for the key and around the chain then pulled tight
Great video! Btw, what was wrong with a engine?
Thanks, to be honest I think the garage I took it to originally just didnt tighten the bolts correctly when they did it. As after I put a new gasket on it's been fine.
An hour and a half to take it apart - you;re not hanging around are you! I hope it goes back together as quickly - good luck with it all!
I just hope it goes back together lol. To be fair I wasnt rushing it as I had to work it out as I go seeing as I've not done this job before.but rather me do it then the local Mitsubishi specialist I went to before, The place really ripped me off they said 1.4k supply and fit then 3k later I got the car back... took them to trading standards as there was so many issues, like none of my cars electrics worked, I had a exhaust gas leak into the engine bay that ended up in the cockpit, they told me my fuel pump was shot.... I rebuilt it my self less then a year before but I took them a spare pump I had just refurbished and suddenly it worked. There were just so many issues with the experience I'll never but my cars in a garage again.
How much did you pay for the kit ? Head and head gasket ?
I think I did say how much in the video but it was around £60 i think for the gasket kit. The head was my original one I just had it pressure tested to be sure it was good and that was about £40 from memory
Nicely done i wish one day i do this for my car like fix it and stuff i guess your doing all this out by the side walk i would thought u would drive the vehicle in your yard to work on it so u dont get snoopy neighbors
Yeah I'm road side, well I'm in the front garden. But I've done engine swaps on the road outside it all depends on what car is sat where. Unfortunately there is no access for a car to my shed. I have stairs to go up and down plus a 42" pinch point down the ally between 2 gardens. Turn out My house isnt ideal for the hobby I ended up doing. It was ideal back when I was a progressive metal drummer as I'm right next to the m27 motorway
Great video, did you have to replace the head or only the gasket ?
Just the gasket, I took the head to be pressure tested after I had checked for flatness on my surface plate just to be sure.
Thanks for watching I'm glad you liked it
@@smithbuiltbetween this video and the second one, you cleaned the bloke and left it ready to put the new gasket, would you mind telling me how did you clean ?
Hey mate, did you remove the tensioner at all? Doesn’t look like you did, thought it would have tightened the chain more without loosening it off before removing the cam sprocket
Hello. Nope I left it as is, just popped a cable tie round the chain through the key hole in the sprocket.
Hi did you push down the turbo to get it out mine is not moving😂
Hello, if you're onabout getting the manifold out, from memory it's the intake manifold first then exhaust. I do remember it being fiddly but I don't think I had to mess with the turbo
Hey mate. How did you go about keeping track of all of the bolts? Did you have a system of making sure you knew what was what?
Literally just remember where they go mate. I've taken most the auxiliary components of the engines at some point so all that was new to me was the head bolts and little case an timing bolts
A good trick is to get a bit of cardboard, and for each bolt, poke it through the cardboard, then mark on the cardboard what the bolt is. You can keep like with like, and even copy patterns on the engine.
Do you need to remove the exhaust and air intake manifold to remove the head?!
Possibly not but I think it's easier to just remove it
When did you removed timing chain tensioner
Hi, I didn't remove it, there is enough movement in the tensioning spring to allow you to slip the chain off and back on again with a little mechanical advantage and to keep my timing mark I simply cable tied through the sprocket and around the chain
You still running this ol' beaut on waste oil? I got my truck a bit warm last year with a blocked injector, the sort of thing that could banana a head although I had absolutely no probs bananaing my pajy on forecourt fuel.
Yeah I was running waste oil, probably 2 wo too 1 diesel as it was cold weather. I had thought could the oil kill it as I think it burns hotter but, I dont thrash the motor I drive at 60mph on the motorway and I'd not towed with this one. Friends say I drive like miss daisy. Would just running with waste oil cause it? The head is totally flat btw. But I did have issues with the garage and I had got trading standards involved and it did end up with them fixing there cock ups.... I wonder if they may have loosened a bolt or two or if the apprentice there let do my car had messed up due to no experience. Turns out the Mitsubishi specialist I went to is only really interested in high power cars and not old 4x4s
@@smithbuilt I was filtering down to 1 micron and still got a bad spray pattern that lead to my temps rising, like you I want my old mota to last forever so drive accordingly!
It's the muck from the burn clogging my nozzle rather than sediment.
I don't think there's enough load on those massive studs to have them stretch so if you found em loose that's probably the fault.