Found a spare moment to put it all back together; and while the engine cover was off changed the oil and filter.
When I fired the car up the tappets were empty, especially on the inlet side.
I guess this was because I rotated the cams to reset the cam timing, taking the tension off the tappets.
I'm sure you all know the cam pops out of position when you remove the locking tool.
I probably should have done it the other way and rotated the crank one tooth, but that would
have meant removing and replacing the crank locking tool. Moving the cams looked like an easier path.
I should have tried to hold the cams in place and just ease them around one tooth, rather than letting them flip away.
This really tests your confidence in having set the timing properly. It sounds like
world war three for a few minutes
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and you pray it's not valves hitting pistons.
However after what seemed a very, very long time the oil started to warm up and the awful noises
at first got a bit quieter and then disappeared completely. I assume it takes warmish oil to get into the tappets properly,
which now have fresh oil in there as I did an oil change while I was in the engine bay.
So now for some test driving.
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The sun is shining and the birds are singing.
Turns out my original mistake was a smallish one that snowballed, I didn't remove the cover plate from
behind the starter motor, so this fouled the crank locking tool and so the crank wasn't locked properly,
allowing it to turn one tooth when I torqued up the crank bolt.
Experience, they say, can only be gained from mistakes.