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Advice please: What is 'sealant' for locating pins
Topic Started: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:07 pm (643 Views)
exciton
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Hi Guys,

Just bulding up to changing my head gasket (1992 K reg 1.8 auto 190E).

According to the Haynes manual I will need to apply 'sealant' to the 'outer collar of each locating pin , where it seats in the cylinder head' (upper guide rail of the timing chain Red Haynes manual Section 2A 11 para 79)


What does sealant mean - Locktite or some sort of liquid gasket?

And another dumb question........

I will not be able to complete the job in a day but will need to move the car in between as I do not have enough room on the drive of my house. If I leave the auto-box in neutral and move the car I assume that the engine will not turn over at all and screw up the cam/timing alignment when it disassembled? ( I do not know how automatic gearboxes work and wondered if there may be some sort of viscous coupling/drag that might turn the engine even if the box was in neutral)

Sorry for being so dim!

Thanks

Mark
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mb190e
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Just done the head gasket on my son's 190 and we used Car Plan gastite, got it from local motor factors, this works fine but remember you will need a slide hammer to remove the pins. I borrowed one from the local engineer who skimmed the head.
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exciton
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Thanks for the reply, much appreciated.

Unfortunately I do not have a 'proper' slide hammer and was hoping that I may be able to get away with making one from some scrap lumps of metal or alternatively making a 'puller' out of a bolt/socket/nut combination

Thanks again

Mark
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shrekky
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yes you can move the car while it is in neutral and it wont disturb the engine ;) ........the auto-box wont engage until about 30mph,even then it would drive the torque converter in reverse :o and this can have very undiserable effects, thats why an car with an auto-box should never be towed above 30 mph with its drive wheels still on the ground ;)
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exciton
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Thanks a lot - I feel much happier now, but thankfully even I would have had trouble pushing it above 30 mph - probably 25 max!

Cheers

Mark
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