Off with his head!

I'm getting stuck into pulling this 9-5 Aero B235R engine apart.

It looks like some chump has misaligned the timing cover in the past and then come up with a great solution - trim the gasket to match the misalignment, then just spam sealant around the rest, and hope for the best.

The head felt way over-torqued to compensate. You can now see there's a broken timing chain guide in the first photo. I think it was on the way out and I just upset it when i turned the engine over by hand with the tensioner out.

So, that's another engine coming out!

In the last photo you can just about see all the sh**ty permatex around the LHS, before I trimmed it off.

Update: I’ve been told this is actually something dealerships always did to save time when pulling the timing cover. Makes sense, but yuck!