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Ok SO the head decided to go on the truck. I went for the miners built up head as this was cheaper than roughtrax. After talking with Tonyn we decided that the head gasket and bolts from roughtrax was the better option.
So tony set about fitting the new head all Went well until the truck was started and it sounded like a machine gun.. Tony set about checking everything from valve clearances to timing all was good. The head had to come off. Once it was off it was obvious the the valves in the new head were hitting the top of the pistons and on taking measureme tony noted that the valves were protruding .7 mm out of the head. on the old head the valves are reseed by 2mm
Phone call to miners and spoke to Carl. He arranged a replacement to be sent out with new gasket and head bolts. Again we decided not to use the Milner gasket but to go the genuine Toyota.
Tony then set about fitting the new replacement head and I get a text saying its purring like a kitten. Drove home tonight with no problems at all truck is running perfectly.
Milners said that they a two suppliers of heads and that they are concerned in case the machine had thrown a wobbly with one of the suppliers although they had not received any other complaints, this could be due to the fact oothers are not as conciensoiue as tony when it comes to fitting.
So the question are milners heads any good? Well if it had not been for the issue of the first one then it's seems that they aren't bad. So ifs anyone is thinking of going down the milners route I hope that you learn from my experience and ask them to make sure that the valves are set into the head with a 2mm reses.
I will be contacting milners tomorrow to try and get some of the labour cost back. I will let you know how this goes, but up to now the customer service has not been bad.
Colin
So tony set about fitting the new head all Went well until the truck was started and it sounded like a machine gun.. Tony set about checking everything from valve clearances to timing all was good. The head had to come off. Once it was off it was obvious the the valves in the new head were hitting the top of the pistons and on taking measureme tony noted that the valves were protruding .7 mm out of the head. on the old head the valves are reseed by 2mm
Phone call to miners and spoke to Carl. He arranged a replacement to be sent out with new gasket and head bolts. Again we decided not to use the Milner gasket but to go the genuine Toyota.
Tony then set about fitting the new replacement head and I get a text saying its purring like a kitten. Drove home tonight with no problems at all truck is running perfectly.
Milners said that they a two suppliers of heads and that they are concerned in case the machine had thrown a wobbly with one of the suppliers although they had not received any other complaints, this could be due to the fact oothers are not as conciensoiue as tony when it comes to fitting.
So the question are milners heads any good? Well if it had not been for the issue of the first one then it's seems that they aren't bad. So ifs anyone is thinking of going down the milners route I hope that you learn from my experience and ask them to make sure that the valves are set into the head with a 2mm reses.
I will be contacting milners tomorrow to try and get some of the labour cost back. I will let you know how this goes, but up to now the customer service has not been bad.
Colin
, good that you've got it sorted though.
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