Since last post I swapped the engines, did a full service including belts and timing of the pump. New engine is (first 100km's) much better I think. No smoke yet, starts easily and sounds healthier. Doesn't overheat and its faster than the old engine (or less slow..)
First thing I noticed is the cold start device, which is actually working on the new engine. Idle speed is high and it takes about 10 minutes of driving to warm up the engine and get the idle revs down, is this normal? I would guess a minute of high idle would also be good, but it takes some time to warm up the coolant for the wax stat to return?
2nd, it's sweating a bit of oil at the headgasket under / near the vacuum pump and behind the injection pump. Not much but noticable, could this be problematic? Rather not pull the head..
3rd is oil pressure, takes a bit longer (5 seconds?) To build up when cold, other engine was a bit faster. Am running 5w40 fully synthetic oil specified for diesels. Before swapping the engines i pulled the pan to replace the leaking gasket & fix a stripped bolt, oil pickup screen was/is clean.
During valve adjustment i threw some extra oil on the cams, overfilling the engine. Maybe am extra liter at max, should I drain or just keep some extra in there (think i read somewhere these engines can use some extra oil).
Valve cover is leaking oil on to intake / exhaust. It did have the one piece rubber gasket but someone used quite some liquid gasket on it before, could this gasket have gone bad? Tried tightening the studs but no luck.
Overall, until now a succesful engine swap
