My first V20

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A comment about getting the seals in place over a sleeved camshaft. There are a couple of locator pins sticking out of the engine to locate the cover when you put it back on and I screwed up one seal fighting those pins. Spareparts advised pulling them out and replacing them after the cover was in place - it saved my sanity, what there was of it to start with. One of the pins REALLY didn’t want to come out but several days of applying penetrating oil (I don’t recall what I used- may have been Kroil but use the best stuff you can find),I finally got it. Grabbed on with vice grips (the pins were so hard that the pliers didn’t make even a scratch), harfed up and down, more penetrant, over and over and finally it budged a little and I knew I had it - definitely the hardest part of the job.

By the way, I didn’t know the seal was screwed up until I took it out for a test run and it overheated again. Had to do the whole job again. Pull the pins and be very careful to get the seals in right the first time, particularly if you need to sleeve it.