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[QUOTE=Albannach;686129]I'll respectfully disagree.
If you take something off, then put it back on, there should be nothing left over.
Engine swaps, short block fitting and the likes are marginally different and you may have the odd 'pocket bolt' left over; definitely not an 'alarming amount of stuff'. Swapping a head should leave nothing, that wasn't replaced, behind.[/QUOTE
I meant all the nuts and bolts you replace. I also took out the egr altogether along with the whole A/C system oh and I haven't gotten round to putting the engine hoist hooks back on. You see everything essential has been put back but just a few things tend to add up quickly and seem to be more than they really are.
I also ordered extra parts not knowing that they came with the gasket kit anyway. There is one seal though, that I got with the kit that bears no resemblance to anything that came off the engine but like you say as long as everything essential, important or needed that came off goes back on correctly, no problems.
I did the work myself because of a long history of shoddy work done by local garages ranging in prices charged and work done.
A clutch change on my old pug 306, they hadn't connected the air filter housing back onto the throttle body and it had fallen down fouling the gear linkage at the gearbox end.
I could go on but I'm not very good at typing and it takes me for ever just to make bl***y sense. But you get my point.
If you take something off, then put it back on, there should be nothing left over.
Engine swaps, short block fitting and the likes are marginally different and you may have the odd 'pocket bolt' left over; definitely not an 'alarming amount of stuff'. Swapping a head should leave nothing, that wasn't replaced, behind.[/QUOTE
I meant all the nuts and bolts you replace. I also took out the egr altogether along with the whole A/C system oh and I haven't gotten round to putting the engine hoist hooks back on. You see everything essential has been put back but just a few things tend to add up quickly and seem to be more than they really are.
I also ordered extra parts not knowing that they came with the gasket kit anyway. There is one seal though, that I got with the kit that bears no resemblance to anything that came off the engine but like you say as long as everything essential, important or needed that came off goes back on correctly, no problems.
I did the work myself because of a long history of shoddy work done by local garages ranging in prices charged and work done.
A clutch change on my old pug 306, they hadn't connected the air filter housing back onto the throttle body and it had fallen down fouling the gear linkage at the gearbox end.
I could go on but I'm not very good at typing and it takes me for ever just to make bl***y sense. But you get my point.
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