Wednesday

phew...! During stage 3 tightening (220°) using a 2 foot Torque wrench -set to some astronomical number- the whole motor was trying to spin on the floor..

A notch above... 5 notches to be precise.. quite different from the OE gasket that was on there, with its rubber sealing rings etc..

hope this is the last sighting of these... I really do..not that I haven't had a good time or anything..

£110 worth of bits from the rucksack :) Sure I would have been overloaded if stopped...

About 20 kgs... needs must when the devil rides.. gale force winds too..

Micrometer arrived thanks to a good ebay seller... won 8pm Monday night..

working out some shim stuff.. colour gives possible matches.. in the end it wasn't quite as obvious as it seemed.. the bad matches above turned out to be good clearances when all installed, and the supposed good matches wern't always good. I found it tricky to measure gaps really, a light sliding fit mean't that the actual gap was a fair bit wider, if the gauge is forced. After three camshaft removals, and 30 mins taking a 2.96 down to a 2.88 using various grades of wet and dry, all was pretty close.. will update final clearances here. (will also check after a week of running, assuming it runs again ) :)