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Re: Project Rescue

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Sorted the O rings for the cooling system fittings today whilst I had a bit of down time at work with a few spares.
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The plan is to sort through all our old imperial cap screw stocks and see if we have enough to make up a new set of head bolts.
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watch the valley gaskets mate. i think mine crapped out on the boostadore and its more of a steam pump at the moment lol. when my back is right i'll pull the LIM and redo the fucking things.
dont mind vlad and cracking ecotecs if its not a buick its no good ;)
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Cheers mate.

TBH, I haven't made a lot of progress. I went back on shift, got sick for a few days and been playing plumber this weekend. Hopefully this week I'll have time to get it back together before my next shift later this week.
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i'm hearing ya mate. fucking sciatica so bending over at the moment is unobtanium. getting there.
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Bit of an update (or lack there off).

The exhaust valves in the other head didn't clean up as well as the first so I bit the bullet and ordered a new set of valves. Hopefully I'll have those in the next few days.
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Well fuck me, thanks Covid.

My new exhaust valves arrived yesterday, only a month wait :(

Took the heads down to a local machinist to have the exhaust valve seats re-cut. Hopefully have those back by next week ready to assemble and bolt on.
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I went to but a 1/4 inch NPT 3/8 tail from an engineering supply company only to be told it would be an 8 week wait. Yep covid.
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Yep, very slow atm. And everything is so expensive, covid tax as I call it.
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Definitely, stuff is either very hard to get or very expensive.
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We can't get anything no local suppliers with stock getting pistons and such from overseas even decent gasket goo is hard to come by lol
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