ANOTHER TYPE OF JB-DET ROCKER COVER?

One customer come to us and bringing the rocker cover a long with him to find the gasket for it, at a first glance, I recognise the shape which it should be the JB-DET engine which they like to call it Kancil L9 Turbo.


On the top of the rocker cover also have the Daihatsu logo, should not be wrong. Feel confidently go inside my store and take out a piece of said Kancil L9 Turbo valve cover gasket to my customer.


Oh...no.... when place the gasket onto the rocker cover, all the screw hole are well place except the place which the arrow pointed on the above picture.

After checking it with the L5 valve cover gasket, also not relevant..... headache, is it another new type of rocker cover from Daihatsu JB-XXX series, or it just the matter I don't know how to install it?

YRV TURBO K3-VET ENGINE

Since my earlier article on Daihatsu K3-VE cylinder head gasket (http://www.kp-gasket.blogspot.com/2009/11/k3-ve-and-2sz-fe-cylinder-head-gasket.html) there are some call in inquiry on the K3-VET cylinder head gasket, mainly are wonder if the K3-VE cylinder head gasket can stand the pressure of K3-VET turbo engine or not.

First, it is confirm that K3-VE and K3-VET actually share the same type cylinder head gasket, since K3-VET is come with Turbo, I would suggest owner to use the Japan made item or the OEM item for Toyota Avanza 1.3 (2SZ-FE engine), as this type of engine are quite a lot in Indonesia, the OEM cylinder head gasket from Toyota is made in Indonesia as well, but don't worry, their material actually is from Japan and the finishing is done in indonesia.


On the K3-VET Turbo Housing Gasket, please click on post below http://www.kp-gasket.blogspot.com/2012/01/daihatsu-yrv-k3-vet-turbo-gasket.html

Suzuki Grand Vitara

Suzuki Grand Vitara may have carry 2 types of engine in Malaysia, both with 2,000cc with H20A V6 type of engine and another the more popular 4 cylinder J20A engine.

The V6 type of engine is mainly install on the Suzuki Escude model in Japan market, and it is known that H20A type of engine is to be obsolete in Japan due to they have bigger cc of H25A (2,493cc) and H27A (2,736cc) engine.

CONSTANT VELOCITY JOINT (CV JOINT)

"CV Joint" is short for Constant Velocity Joint, an example of a type of mechanisms that connects two intersecting rotating shafts making an angle with one another, especially when the angle varies in service. CV joint are now very widely used in front-wheel drive cars at the connection of a half-axle with a wheel. They transmit torque evenly when wheel moves in steering or suspension. For a brief description of a typical CV Joint, see the link to the Wikipedia article given in the References.




China made CV Joint is one of the automotive parts that is most successfully penetrate into Malaysia market, due to their pricing, it can be say it totally take over the market share of Taiwan and Japan made product, left the Japan made CV Joint only have the share for the high end vehicle.

But there are too many manufacturer in China which they may have some manufacturer really don't border the quality of product which using the low quality steel (may be just a metal) which the item may threaten the life of the driver, and passengers too. (Photo show the failure of a CV Joint which definately will dangerous the life if the vehicle is in the high speed on highway.)

C1T-118 12V HITACHI IGNITION COIL

Actually I'm not really want to talk about the ignition coil on this topic, what I'm wish to say is the "Claim" culture in the automotive spare parts in Malaysia market.

In the early day when parts are mostly imported from Japan, they are less claim issue due to their quality is proven, but since nowadays the China manufacturer try to penetrate the share of market, they start to promise on the policy that "Item can be claim if it is malfunction after it is install on the vehicle." And some even given the guaranteed time frame after install.

In this high competition market, I respect the Hitachi Ltd. which their policy still not except claimage on their Ignition Coil item (I don't know for their other product). Even some customer give back the coil stated it is not functioning, it most probaly will return back to the customer after all the testing from Hitachi, their report most probaly show the coil is still OK.

Daihatsu Copen Engine View

Mitsubishi 4B11 and 4B12 Cylinder Head Gasket

We may see some of the Misubishi latest model Lancer or Outlander using the 4B11 or 4B12 series of engine, but not many know that this engine is not fully develope by Mitsubishi, actually this engine are the result of the joint venture between Mitsubishi, Hyndai and Daimler Chrysler.


The details of this engine and its power specification can be view in http://paultan.org/2007/07/30/2007-mitsubishi-lancer-the-new-4b11-engine/ , in this article, I just curious the metal dot which surrounded on the ring area, I should be a very high technologies which I think it can be done in Japan in this moment, if not other may need to invest a lot on the machinery to follow this kind of specification.