Under cover Resto

[hashman]

Winston , yes, exactly that. It stops the plain Cork gaskets deforming and slipping out of place.

Karl.

[hashman]

Well I thought I was doing well. starting to see the end in near sight.
I put the inlet manifolds on, matching up the gaskets and a bit of fine tuning

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And then I noticed the pushrod tube seals were weeping. this is before I've put all the oil in it. so if some is weeping with just a little in, what will happen when I fire it up. The case bolt I had trouble with was also weeping.
So I took a deep breath and took it all apart, well as much as was needed.
I took the centre case bolt out, only needing to remove one barrel and put new seals on it and a dollop of Hylomar blue.
Then I looked at the pushrod tubes and realised that their end washers were a little bit big for my case and heads.
I tried to grind one down but that took forever. Luckily I spoke to my farther in law who donated my hobby lathe and told me the chuck jaws on that would hold the washers from the inner diameter.
So I was able to turn them all down by 1mm.

20240321_173526 by karlhash, on Flickr

just too big
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Turning the washers individually
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Smaller washers, which also made it easier re fitting the heads this time.
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Thanks
Karl

[neilbardsley]

This is a lesson for all of us. Good work

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[Hugo 356]

I always wondered why people charge so much to build these engines. Evidently it's machining all the washers...

[sladey]

Nice work

[Lightweight_911]

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One of the benefits of a slow(er) build - problems like this become apparent before you start the engine.

A satisfying, if time-consuming, solution - well done Karl !

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[roy mawbey]

Well done on all this work you have done very well indeed.

Roy

[roy mawbey]

Well done on all this work you have done very well indeed.

Roy

[hashman]

Thanks guys,
all this time and work , just because I wanted to clean up the engine and stop some oil drips in lock down!

Karl