Top End Rebuild - Day 23

Spent about 2hrs on the car today and got the mixture control unit on, fit the driver's side injectors and fuel lines. May have spent only 2hrs installing the parts, but I must have spent at least another hour fighting with that special hose clamp that's used to hold the air duct to the throttle body. Once you loosen that clamp, that's it, its game over, you can't re-tighten it again without taking it completely apart and fitting the end of the loop back into a little slot. Really annoying.

The end pieces on the air distribution hoses look yellow, yes, they are the old pieces. But the hoses themselves are new. I just transferred over the end caps. The fuel injector nozzles and O-rings are new as well. I had the fuel injectors soaked in a bottle of seafoam for almost 1 month now I think. I used a bit of dielectric grease on the injector seals and fit them into the nozzles.

Getting the injectors in, fitting the injector retention brackets and the fuel lines is all a bit fidgety. But once you've done it a few times, you really start to get the hang of it. And dare I say you actually start to appreciate the German engineering. Well at least some of it :)

When fitting the timing chain back on, I dropped one of those tiny circlips for the master link into the engine. I've got an old magnet tied to metal wire that I fed down the engine in the hopes I could probably pick it up if it stopped somewhere along the way. But didn't find it, so I ordered a new chain link from the dealer (about $8) just for the circlips. What's interesting is that if you buy the IWIS branded chain link, you only get two circlips, but if you buy the link from the dealer you get three! Now isn't that interesting. They just know that you're going to drop one so they just give you one extra.

When using my magnet again today for something else, I found the missing circlips stuck to it. Ha! I actually did get it back from the engine.

Its nice to finally see the engine bay starting to take shape. Really not looking forward to fitting the exhaust.