The head bolts that piss me off are the ones where you have to go to 30lbs and then go round again 15 degrees, then round again 90 degrees, then throw chicken bones on the floor and pray to cliff Burton
@@petetazflies not in my case mate , but I've heard of those ones lol 🤣 The ones that had me cussing like a coal miner were on my 97 camaro, talk about sending you round the houses.
For an amateur mechanic youve done a cracking job of that engine, these are beautiful cars, but i wish it was either black or metallic bronze, dont think i could have the heart to get rid of this beauty.
The way to do this is to assemble the valve gear without the shims. You then measure the gaps, subtract from each gap the amount you want for clearance on that valve, then either buy shims that thickness or machine yours to fit.
Spot on, and I'd have assembled the cam into the head BEFORE fitting the head to the engine, just to make things easier. Then repeated the exercise with the correct size shims fitted to confirm gaps.
These are underbucket shims. If you assemble without the shims, the buckets or tappets will be sitting on top of the valve spring not valve itself. You will not get a valid reading To remove the shims you have to take off the camshaft. The tappet adjustment is a complicated job on the Rover 2000 motor. I have my own shim set. If you own a shim set for these motors then you will get requests for service visits!
Your narratage is superb, you really draw us in with your lighthearted commentary. And... no expletives! Your camera work makes us feel as if we're really in the workshop with you, so well edited. I've learnt so much about cars and engines since watching your videos. What an achievement to get this P6 back on the road. Well done.
omg...my dad had one though it was a 3.5 v8...green with camel interior ..bit of a beast,,,in the 70s...proper car....we had some adventures...happy days..all the best.
I have had Rovers all my driving life from 16 to 70,p4,5 and6, you have a good one here, keep it is my advice,l am in South Australia,p6 are such a well made car, good luck with the Rover,
When I started in St asaph, heron garage (1986) with the yts scheme. There was a mechanic working on an sd 1 rover and he was having fun with the shims, trying to get the valve clearances. It took he a few days.he was getting really fed up with it. I really enjoyed watching this, thanks Ben
Hi Ben you are doing a great job. A couple of things I learnt in my Engine Reconditioning Trade training were firstly always torque the head in at least 2 stages. The first being a bit over half the torque then to the required torque setting. This helps to make sure the head gasket seats well. Also use the torque wrench as close to the bolt as possible. An extension can alter your final torque. Love your videos and the great selection of cars you work on. Marc from Australia 🇦🇺
I totally loved this video, I was on knife's edge watching it slide towards the pole and the MG! One thing I would have done is close that bonnet. What a devine ride he will be once cleaned up.
White/black wires are low tension ignitiopn circuit, ie coil - to dizzy, or tacho trigger off the -side of the coil. Oil pressure sender unit wire is white/brown. The wiper delay is variable via the white knob on the lh side of the column shroud, if it's working that is. It's worked by a vacuum capsule and rubber hose. Often the diaphragm splits or the pipe has perished. Nice job on this one, well done.
I’m 58 this year and have been doing things around engines since I passed my father a spanner (wrench, in American), aged 4. It never, ever gets old, hearing a bunch of inanimate pieces of metal, that you’ve bolted together yourself, burst into life. It’s as close as a regular schmo like me can ever get to Genesis. I’m loving watching you do this. Keep it up.
I use to see what engines and boxes you could fit into what car 🤣 As long as you had the two propshafts welded together and balanced you could practically fit anything into to any car 🤣
@35:45 I can tell you, listening to that, and I've had a P6 2000TC - that is a STRONG engine. Absolutely perfect. Congratulations, she has all the makings of an excellent P6. On my V8, the thermo housing gaskets are hopeless as a pattern replacement, my current one is cardboard from a Cornflakes packet and instant gasket.
The P6 was such an advanced car at its launch in 1963. The styling, build quality and performance were exceptional. It really brought the company right up to date with a car aimed at the younger customer. In it's facelifted guise, like this one, Rover managed to refresh the model and I actually prefer this version. The 2L engine was a little unrefined but the 2200 version was a big improvement and was smoother with useful extra power. I just love the interior, all the little details like illuminated switches, the map light, the gorgeous six dial instrument binnacle, the blanking plate for the radio-oozes quality. It shows what a great car it is with its performance and ride for a 54 year old car. There won't be any shitty EV's around in 50 years. Well done Ben, hope it goes to an enthusiastic owner.
loved the series on the P6 well done for saving another ........TASTY CLASSIC... plus you are !THE GAFFER! of tasty classics you should keep her add to your rover collection..
For him to properly be The Gaffer, he'll need to fill the car with parking tickets which then fly out of the open windows as he drives the Rover down the road. Now there's a reference that anyone under a certain age won't understand.
Fond Memory of the P6 ,At a Family wedding Newquay . Cornwall ,late 70's, Winter storm came in , My Uncle had one , We drove down to the harbour at night with waves crashing over it ! ....My dad had a Avenger at the time that mum wrote off down Telegraph Hill on the A38 Devon on the way home ..The P6 was pure luxury in the back as a 10 yr old kid .
I remember doing valve clearances on the BL O series engine.Same thing with shims when i was a Austin/Rover tech way back.That Rover engine still has tight clearances as its galloping on idle.
I learnt a lot with this episode what a great job not many P6s left now s good as this to start with why didnt Rover make an up to date copy of these cars nothing so nice to look at or sit in made any more
We need to get Ben more viewers and subs! What can we do? I love the sound of this little P6 with the blowing exhaust. Great job Ben! Looking forward to the Capri content!
@GMTM2162: I know! Everybody who enjoys this channel, open an extra RU-vid account and subscribe & like from that! Or, if a more robust solution is preferred, we could kidnap Derek Bieri from Vice Grip Garage and ask him to post some rubbish content to let Tasty Ben catch up? 😊
of course he could also be Fred Gee from Coronation Street, especially with the booze in the boot in what was Annie Walker's Rover, right colour too. 😁
Wonderful vid, enjoyed it immensely (even tho' you said "is it boring" a couple of times) sorting out shims! I recently did a head job on an old-ish Pug 205 GTI, and nearly went insane sorting out bl**dy shims! But a classic job, on a classic! A very tasty classic vid, more please!
Love this latest addition! My first car was a 1968 2000TC, fixed it up and got it running, never got the back brakes to work properly though. Learned to drive on an Ambassador so you ticked that box, also had a Mk1 Cavalier and a Mk1 Capri😀. Keep up the good work, if you ever fancy turning your hand to motorcycles I’ve a few projects in my shed you might like👍👍.
Superb vid Ben. It's been a lot of years since I did an engine rebuild, or even head work but, when you put them all back together properly and the burst into life instantly...its like a home run! I've been an engineer for 30 years and I'll never get bored of engineering. Top work fella!
Your expression at 35.3 minutes when she fired up was just PRICELESS!! Thank you for making my Friday night yet again Ben! Wonderful stuff!!! 😂 Totally UNBORING 👍👏Bravo!! (well worth £3995)
Said it before, this chap is now my favourite. Can't remember how I found Top Cat but I'm glad I did. Keep them coming mate. Just before you commented on how well she sounded I had exactly the same thought.
Yet another great episode! That car is certainly very cool, and seems to work flawlessly! Fridays are starting to become, one of my favorite days of the week, thanks to your uploads Ben! :D
Yeah sorry Ben I was manning Rover Helpline that night but went down Pub for a Swift pint 🍺 or 12 😁. Seems like you got through your CRISIS on own 👌🏻 so be very proud of yourself mate , your now in Rover recovery 😂👍🏻.
Get some "short" shims made at just below minimum. Put them in then measure the actual gap. You can then work out the difference between what you have and what you need. How simple is that?
This has been a brilliant series and adventure. Thank you so much, Mr Tasty. Edit: seriously, what are the brakes like? Discs all round and quite light? It’s a gorgeous classic, I’d buy one new today, if Rover made them! Why? Because they can run forever, when eventually fettled. It’ll take time. It’s been asleep a long time. You’ve got bloody good instincts, by the way.
1970 isn’t so very far back. I was ten! My favourite motorcycles, the Suzuki GT triple two strokes, were launched in 1972. My examples are late, 1977, models. I remember very well those Rovers. Typically a doctors car. A bit staid but dependable.
I rebuilt the top end of a MK1 transit campervan Kent engine after melting its No3 valve seat using unleaded petrol about 24yrs ago (Was a rare sight then....why did I sell it?? For £1k!!!). Anyway, after rebuilding engine, filling up with new oil too quickly, the oil flooded the rockerbox and flowed over the brim of the rocker box raised oil filling lip ( but I didn't see this immediately, for the wider funnel restricted my view). The overspill ran straight into cylinder 1 (No plugs were fitted.). Seeing this, I wiped off the overspill and spun the engine over to eject the oil, and some must have exited out through the exhaust, whilst some spat out of the plug hole. The head needed re-torquing after it got warm, so I ran it on the drive for about 5mins, and neighbours were slamming windows due to the smoke! Anyway, retorqued, rockers back on and tappet/valve gaps reset and off I drive. It was like a clowns car billowing blue smoke. I couldn't see behind me. I recall a lady pulling out a handkerchief and smothering the face of her young child on a bicycle! I'm now thinking I've got bore/ ring problems ( I'd previously replaced the rings a year prior), so I headed out of town, fearing I'd get pulled by Mr. Plod in town. A few miles down the road and it all cleared and was perfect afterwards. Was just that spilt oil burning off in the manifold & downpipe. As I watched the Rover, I thought, Yep I know what's causing that😁
How fantastic if your a petrol head being set up to buy unwanted classics & bringing them back to life on Utube, enjoying them for a while then sell them & earning funds in the process enabling you to carry on doing it. Fabulous !! The Tasty Classics idea is awesome !!! 👍🤘🍻
Ben you are a class act, a nice feller to listen to. I don't mind the boring stuff, same league as Jonny Smith! Hx100 from Sony are nice little cameras... small and loads of zoom, 4K video...
Loved seeing you bring that old bus back to life Ben, definitely not boring content and great to see the details you go into. Keep it coming, cheers Darrell
First car I ever drove, when I was 10. Hot wired and push starting it at night. I nearly took the open doors off in reverse when they said hit the accelerator . 😂😂😂😂😂. Never will forget that.
The beauty of a normal OHC setup, even with these captive shims, is you can assemble it all and get all the clearances correct on the bench, before you fit it to the car. I used to know a guy who would machine the valve stems to suit the shims that were available, rather than alter the shims. But you can’t do any of that when the head bolts hold the cam bearings, too. You’ve no choice but to assemble it all, measure what you have, then order the correct shims. Almost French design practice.
Au contraire, Rodney, au contraire. It's one of the best. The look of shock on your face after it fired up the instant you got the clearances right was priceless. Done it meeself. It's a great feeling, isn't it?
These cars always did drive exceptionally well. If you worked in a garage back in their day you were likely to be working on a number of these cars. In time you would collect a box full of these shims which in time made it a lot easier and quicker to change them. I worked in a Rootes (Hillman) garage and Imps had similar shims fitted to.
My favourite colour on the P6 ..... Lunar Grey. Had one of these not long after I passed my test. 1971 seties 1.5 in Mexico Brown. Had bits from both series 1 and Series 2. 1971 model. Lovely car, wish I hadnt sold it.
How nice does the Rover look and sound who ever buys it they are lucky to have it if i had the money i would buy it my dad had one and we went all over Scotland and Wales in it, and the police use to have them motorway cops my dad once said they drive like a tank and go like shit off a shovel.
Yes, they're very nice cars to drive. On the tacho, you'll have to pull it out (easy) and work out why the needle is stuck. Electrically, the wire from coil to distributor does not take a direct route, but passes through the tacho to enable it to read the pulses. So if anything was amiss with this wire, the engine wouldn't run. With that said, a 2000SC should have the earlier strip speedo and no tacho, so either the engine or the dashboard has been changed in your car. Have a look too at the wiper motor and how the intermittent setting works. It's pneumatic, and really neat. Cheers.
The leaking water in the capri is probably entering through the front scuttle panel as this was a problem with ford's at that time including the escort & cortina. It was probably caused by battery acid rotting through the bulkhead area 😊
I am pretty certain that what you have there is a 2000TC that has been converted to an SC, I had an 'M' registered TC the same colour in the 70's and it had the same dashboard, the SC had a long rectangular speedo that moved from left to right. It would explain why it says TC under the bonnet.
