No eyesore excessive liquid gasket usage, please. The area should be clean and shiny. New crank seal installed. ...
Forgot to post the photo of cam shaft. As reported earlier, no abnormal scratch and just the coating wear. Considering the mileage, quite normal and being driven regularly with long distance journey helped a lot in keeping good condition inside the engine. ...
I now know why the valve covers were so dirty yet the internal engine parts were so much cleaner. Apparently, the previous owner used to drive long distance regularly so the annual mileage was high but only changed the eng oil like once a year. So, just circulated ...
Before backing off the valve clearance adjuster, I always check the current clearance. On this engine, I was quite surprised to see imbalance of compression data between the cyl on such low mileage and late model NSX so decided to measure the existing clearance even more carefully. #1 IN: 0.19mm, 0.19mm just at the limit #1 EXH: 0.21mm, 0.21mm just at the limit #2 IN: 0.16mm, below 0.15mm too tight ...
Updated 23-02-2014 at 02:38 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1
Started opening the engine. As expected, very clean TB back plate with no melted potting from the CYL/CRK sensor. Even at this low mileage and very late model, still the TB tension ...