Hi there,

Fairly new here and only owned my Saph for around 4 months. Unfortunatly after covering a mere 1,000ish miles it developed a coolant pressurizing issue and started leaking coolant from the head.

Initial thoughts were probably a porous cylinder head.

After consulting a specialist and the price going up and up, i decided to grab the car by the knackers and attempt the work myself. I'd consider myself pretty mechanical competent and handy with a spanner. I'm a service engineer by trade, although working on wide format printers and embroidery machines.

Anyway enough of me rambling on ...

Time to use and abuse the WD40 and get everything soaked up ready for removal and avoid tears and broken knuckles later



Seems the previous owner skimped out on fitting new cam cover bolts. 5 of them had no existent head left:



So, some abit of bosch here and there:



Ta daaa!!!

Really pleased with the condition of the cams, there appears to be minimal wear on the lobes, but then again i'm no expert.



Turbo and actuator in need of autosol loving. No front and back play, although some side to side. All good?:



Tried removing the manifold from the turbo, although these 4 little sods tried my patients. Unsure how i'm going to get these off . Tried using a breaker bar but even that wouldn't shift them!