Grrr...Valley Gasket to seal or not to seal.

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:06:24 -0000, "Lee_D"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>VRRROooooooooooooooooOOOOMMMMM
>
>WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP
>
>VRRRROOOOOOooooooooooooMMMMM
>
>WOP WOP WOP WOP


Superb! Well done


>Whats more I only lost one bolt in the whole exercise!


Marginally better than (cough) having a spare one left over that you
don't know wot it's for, though... ;-)


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Mother wrote:

> Marginally better than (cough) having a spare one left over that you
> don't know wot it's for, though... ;-)

Except that you're never sure whether the missing bolt is hiding in a
cylinder or the inlet manifold. :-(

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EMB

EMB <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz funny about:
> Mother wrote:
>
>> Marginally better than (cough) having a spare one left over that you
>> don't know wot it's for, though... ;-)
>
> Except that you're never sure whether the missing bolt is hiding in a
> cylinder or the inlet manifold. :-(

Can't be far, was sat on the chassis rail from where it got perched on
removal. No doubt once I get a replacement it'll turn up.

Lee D

Lee_D wrote:
> Lee_D <[email protected]> uttered summat worrerz
> funny about:
>
>> Time will tell.. sleep beckons -- I can almost bend my fingers
>> again.. must be time for more therapy :0)
>>
>> Lee D
>
> Well after a rather sleepless night with a million possibilities
> running around inside my head I got up bright and breezy and set out
> to sort Morph. I did ponder just purchasing a new set of plugs and a
> new valley gasket and biting the bullet to save another trip in to
> town. I am however tight as a ducks arse when it comes to these
> things. I dug out the blow lamp and set off to Ma and Pa's... Foggy
> than a foggy thing in a fog factory. Got there and whipped the Dizzy
> cap off again and wiped out anything that wasn't visible to
> inspection (Dizzy caps probably only done 500 miles). Quadruple
> checked the plug leads.. they were fine. Checked the dizzy was tight
> and not likely to have been leaned upon. Whipped out all the plugs..
> some had very minor mush up them, remains of anything that had been
> left in the bores and no doubt any oil that had worked it's was in
> yesterday during my cranking session.
> Turned over the engine with no plugs.. or that was the plan.. Was
> stuck in gear , then the starter jammed on...smoke and panic for 30
> seconds followed by much cossing. Tryed to turn him over again with
> the gearbox in neutral and the battery (charged overnight) was now
> dead again.... <Insert choice of rude words here - repeat times 4>
>
> I then put the battery on charge in the workshop, set the genny about
> charging a second battery and swapped to the aux battery once that
> had some therapy.
>
> In the mean time I lined up the spark plugs like an SAS squad they
> were in for some treatment... WD40 to clean off any invisible
> megaconductive residue from the parts wash treatment. Then emery
> paper on the tips to clean up for a good spark. These plugs again
> have only done 500 miles max (quite a while in a 101 Ambi...well mine
> anyway!). Once they appeared spotless I lined them up on a brick
> safely away from any flamables and then gave them a light toasting
> with the blow lamp. The ends immediately got greyer and cleaner/dryer
> looking (didn't appear that bad in the first place).
> Now given I've lit the blow lamp and done very little fire starting I
> cast the flame into the open bores , a couple go "shoosh" as the
> remains of an vapour get burnt off but in the main it was a none
> event.
> Bunged it all together..... hit the starter and he's definately
> trying to fire now on the first turn. I ease off the starter for
> some unknown reason but it looks like the starter has jammed on
> again. Possibly cooked it the day before with all that cranking.
>
> Miffed again, the battery goes on charge. Starter gets pulled off..
> rolled around.. tested on some jump leads.. rolled around and prodded
> a bit more and bunged back on again.
>
> Tried to fire him up once the batteries were charged sufficently and
>
> VRRROooooooooooooooooOOOOMMMMM
>
> WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP WOP
>
> VRRRROOOOOOooooooooooooMMMMM
>
> WOP WOP WOP WOP
>
> Yeah I know..funny sounding starter motor
>
> ;0)
>
> Well impressed and relieved at the same time.
>
> Whats more I only lost one bolt in the whole exercise!
>
> Lee D

Que? Now he's firing on 4? progress from 0 to 2 to 4?

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