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You had me worried there:I It would put things back a bit and a bit of a race for Pandy if they were (at the rate I work)
Still while I'm waiting for the bits I can fit the Maltas jacking point to Bonnie
God I annoy myselfe sometimes, so much time wasted faffing about. I went out and bought a socket to get the crankshaft pulley bolt off because the dirty big ring spanner I've got was slipping. I took the bolt off Harvey's old engine to make sure I got the right size - guess what....it was diffferent. The trouble was I fitted the bolt with the starting handle dog (off the original engine) and its a bigger head, the one that was on the old engine was the original Rapier item:I Eventually a bit of patience with the old ring spanner and a 2lb hammer and the bolt was off[8)]
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Still while I'm waiting for the bits I can fit the Maltas jacking point to Bonnie
God I annoy myselfe sometimes, so much time wasted faffing about. I went out and bought a socket to get the crankshaft pulley bolt off because the dirty big ring spanner I've got was slipping. I took the bolt off Harvey's old engine to make sure I got the right size - guess what....it was diffferent. The trouble was I fitted the bolt with the starting handle dog (off the original engine) and its a bigger head, the one that was on the old engine was the original Rapier item:I Eventually a bit of patience with the old ring spanner and a 2lb hammer and the bolt was off[8)]
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speedies shut on wednesdays
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Originally posted by Panky
You had me worried there:I It would put things back a bit and a bit of a race for Pandy if they were (at the rate I work)
Still while I'm waiting for the bits I can fit the Maltas jacking point to Bonnie
God I annoy myselfe sometimes, so much time wasted faffing about. I went out and bought a socket to get the crankshaft pulley bolt off because the dirty big ring spanner I've got was slipping. I took the bolt off Harvey's old engine to make sure I got the right size - guess what....it was diffferent. The trouble was I fitted the bolt with the starting handle dog (off the original engine) and its a bigger head, the one that was on the old engine was the original Rapier item:I Eventually a bit of patience with the old ring spanner and a 2lb hammer and the bolt was off[8)]
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I thought it was just me that seemingly wastes so much time getting little things wrong like that.........really annoying isn't it, in a wierd way, its satisfying to know you are human like us poor mortals it's how we all learn though isn't it
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Originally posted by Panky
You had me worried there:I It would put things back a bit and a bit of a race for Pandy if they were (at the rate I work)
Still while I'm waiting for the bits I can fit the Maltas jacking point to Bonnie
God I annoy myselfe sometimes, so much time wasted faffing about. I went out and bought a socket to get the crankshaft pulley bolt off because the dirty big ring spanner I've got was slipping. I took the bolt off Harvey's old engine to make sure I got the right size - guess what....it was diffferent. The trouble was I fitted the bolt with the starting handle dog (off the original engine) and its a bigger head, the one that was on the old engine was the original Rapier item:I Eventually a bit of patience with the old ring spanner and a 2lb hammer and the bolt was off[8)]
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I thought it was just me that seemingly wastes so much time getting little things wrong like that.........really annoying isn't it, in a wierd way, its satisfying to know you are human like us poor mortals
it's how we all learn though isn't it
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hahaha, thats fine if its a job you are likely to do again lol ....think how scared i was of taking the gearbox out on smurf for the first time....and waited and waited for help with it....now look, out before lunch and back in before dinner lol ....could never of done it without the wonderful help on here though[8D]
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Sorry Panky, Speedy,s are still shut for Christmas
"You,re only supposed to blow the bloody SLIDING doors off"
"You,re only supposed to blow the bloody SLIDING doors off"
I'm a tad miffed[V]
Today was the start of the engine re-build and it all started so well, the pistons cleaned up well and I fitted the new rings without any problem. Lots of scraping old gaskets off and de-glazing bores it was time to put the crank back in. Speedies had everything I needed so i got it all as a job lot - rings, mains big ends and oil pump all shiny and new. I cleaned up the crank, oiled it up and was about to crawl underneath to fit it when I decided to try the bearings first - the mains were fine but the big ends were slopping around like a sloopy thing on sloppy day, obviously the wrong size.........and I've just realised what I've done[8)] I quoted the sizes for the two different sizes of main bearing by mistake, I bagged the big ends up neatly and picked up the wrong shell when I was ordering:I - Back on the phone Monday for some +040" ones[8)]
The daft thing is I checked when I was taking the end caps off during the strip down and saw what size they were, I thought I was imagining it when I was ordering the bits
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Today was the start of the engine re-build and it all started so well, the pistons cleaned up well and I fitted the new rings without any problem. Lots of scraping old gaskets off and de-glazing bores it was time to put the crank back in. Speedies had everything I needed so i got it all as a job lot - rings, mains big ends and oil pump all shiny and new. I cleaned up the crank, oiled it up and was about to crawl underneath to fit it when I decided to try the bearings first - the mains were fine but the big ends were slopping around like a sloopy thing on sloppy day, obviously the wrong size.........and I've just realised what I've done[8)] I quoted the sizes for the two different sizes of main bearing by mistake, I bagged the big ends up neatly and picked up the wrong shell when I was ordering:I - Back on the phone Monday for some +040" ones[8)]
The daft thing is I checked when I was taking the end caps off during the strip down and saw what size they were, I thought I was imagining it when I was ordering the bits
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