Author Topic: Do g40 blocks and heads have locating dowles?  (Read 955 times)

Offline dub-disaster

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Do g40 blocks and heads have locating dowles?
« on: November 18, 2010, 07:47:55 am »
Put my head on yesterday thought it was a bit strange there was no locating dowles was a bit of a pain in the ass the line up and it says in haynes there's dowels but I didn't see any when I split the engine. Are there any !?

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Re: Do g40 blocks and heads have locating dowles?
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2010, 08:35:37 am »
no there aren't

I use 4 old head bolts with the heads cut off and a screwdriver flat in the top. Put them in the 4 corner holes, only a couple of threads in.  Then add gasket nice nad central, then add head. Remove bolts with screwdriver and add head bolts!

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Re: Do g40 blocks and heads have locating dowles?
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2010, 09:42:41 am »
Bloody good idea that I'll do that next time. I just geussed mine   :-\ hope it ain't to far out ! Cheers pete