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#16 PostAuthor: Farmer » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:09 pm

Well tonight I got the pesky thing off, I think the previous American owner used a whole tube of silicone on it, I will check tomorrow the valve clearances, looking in the manual the special tool looks different to the valve clearance guide :??
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#17 PostAuthor: mick znone » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:17 pm

hope it isnt warped or some such, makes you wonder why he used 3 kg of silycone. :shock:
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#18 PostAuthor: Farmer » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:25 pm

I was going to put it on a pane of glass with a sheet of fine emery paper and see where it goes. :)
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#19 PostAuthor: mick znone » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:33 pm

:up :D
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#20 PostAuthor: Al » Sat Feb 07, 2015 12:10 am

Replied in shim thread.
Might be a good idea to remove the oil filter if not the sump as that nasty stuff has a habit of drawing to the oil feed pickup below the oil pump!

Are you ready for us to send Jim the 'traveling mechanic' yet?
He has a boat full of seamen that he smokes about in! :shock:

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#21 PostAuthor: Ginger Bear » Sat Feb 07, 2015 7:24 am

I'd have the sump off to be sure. It might look like this.......... :shock: :shock:


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#22 PostAuthor: jimmock » Sat Feb 07, 2015 10:04 am

GB,

I've NEVER seen anything like that in my life before!!!
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#23 PostAuthor: Z1parR » Sat Feb 07, 2015 2:32 pm

GB has quite a few unusual looking parts :lol:
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#24 PostAuthor: Farmer » Sat Feb 07, 2015 5:42 pm

Bleeding ell, what state was the rest of the engine in ? :shock:
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#25 PostAuthor: Farmer » Sat Feb 07, 2015 6:06 pm

zorded wrote:Replied in shim thread.
Might be a good idea to remove the oil filter if not the sump as that nasty stuff has a habit of drawing to the oil feed pickup below the oil pump!

Are you ready for us to send Jim the 'traveling mechanic' yet?
He has a boat full of seamen that he smokes about in! :shock:

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Only if hes bringing an Alfa exhaust to fit, then he might as well do the sump job as well :lol:
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#26 PostAuthor: Farmer » Sun Mar 29, 2015 12:54 pm

The rocker cover came off surprisingly easy although I found another stripped thread, after reading Pigfords post on some American forum I found myself on one evening I voted for buying 1/4 allen bolts for the two stripped ones, it worked a treat and with some thinner shims it all went back together nicely. :D
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#27 PostAuthor: Pigford » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:41 pm

Farmer wrote:... after reading Pigfords post on some American forum .... :D



:?? Huh :?:
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#28 PostAuthor: Farmer » Sun Mar 29, 2015 2:46 pm

It was some American Kawa forum and the thread was about stripped threads, I think it was a few yrs ago now. It was a Pigford from England so I assumed it was you. :)
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#29 PostAuthor: Pigford » Sun Mar 29, 2015 3:40 pm

Farmer wrote:It was some American Kawa forum and the thread was about stripped threads, I think it was a few yrs ago now. It was a Pigford from England so I assumed it was you. :)


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