Thursday, 14 April 2016



April 2016 
New Elhring head gasket  , heads on torqued up and valve clearances checked again. Cam marks lined up with cam caps at TDC. New cam belts, SKF tensioner bearings and tensioner springs.
Carbs dismantled cleaned in an ultrasonic cleaner and carb cleaner and reassembled with new gaskets   O rings diaphragms . Float levels set to 48 -58.5. Cam covers reinstalled with new seals and gaskets.
New Aluminium belt pulleys the old ones are plastic and the rim detached from one of them. Expensive but a nice safe guard.

Thursday, 6 August 2015



August 2015.Heads done. I bought some shims from precission shims in croydon. Great service ordered monday arrived tuesday. So new valves installed, lapped, valve lash measured, shims replaced as tequired ,  cams instaled torqued up and clearances measured again. Set at .30to .35 ex .20 to25inlet.  Job done! 


Thursday, 30 July 2015

29 July 2015
valve guide seals springs installed

Monday, 13 July 2015

July 2015
heads cleaned in woodies big dishwasher and inlet manifolds bead blasted. New exhaust valves from superperfornance in england new valve guide seals everything cleaned lapped and starting to come together.


Friday, 7 November 2014



7th November 2014 heads stripped of all the bits . 2 of the sodium filled exhaust valves decided to shear at the stem head junction.
They seemed perfectly ok until I gave the spring compressor a bit of a tap to loosen the collets.   Didnt take a lot to fall apart.   Good thing I decided to change them for more modern metalurgy.

Monday, 29 September 2014

29th September 2014
Got one of the heads off today . Still dont know if the valves are sodium filled or not.  Might have to take one out , apparently thete is a part number near the top of the stem.  Everything else seems to be ok.
The bores have no ridges or scoring.


Friday, 26 September 2014