wannaeatyourbrains
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Yeah, thanks man. It is a very helpful trick.
They are little buggers. It is a total mission. The springs are not exposed like on other motors, so it is really hard. Those ones at the back, in the smallest recess, where you can't see or get your hands in, and the tools won't fit, and you gotta work on it by leaning over the far side of the motor....whew, a man needs patience.
But damn, I am getting there. It can sure as hell be done.
I got a couple of hands free ways of holding the spring down. I found there is a sweet spot for spring compression that the bottom lip will slip in and hold them, and then they will just clip in when you give them a push or tap on top.
Nearly had another disaster this morning.
I got the evil bank finished, then I thought, oh ho, what is this.
What did I find lying in the top of the head but one of the little springs from the valve seals. A new one, not an old one...
I was absolutely depressed cause I thought I would have to pull them all off and put them all on again to find which one had lost his spring.
But luckily, little bit of deduction, the first one I pulled off, it was the one missing the spring.
In my haste, however, I forgot to put the rope in that cylinder before checking. Nearly lost the valve down the cylinder.
Again, but, fortune smiled on me, and it only dropped a short way.
The day was saved.
I thought how did this even happen, the spring come off?
I looked in the bag of valve stem seals. Ah, a couple of them have not been assembled very well, the rubber is not positioned well or the spring is half hanging off. So it pays to study them carefully before you poke them on with your fingers, into that dark pit of misery where they dwell. Make sure everything is in order.
This is some good advice I will be able to give to the next guy about this one.
Ha ha, I have a bunch, because I am always a comedy of errors.
Still got two eyes, haven't bled too much, and haven't broken or stuffed up anything yet, so I am well pleased with it all.
And just this very second those cam shaft locking tools came from Amazon.
They are little buggers. It is a total mission. The springs are not exposed like on other motors, so it is really hard. Those ones at the back, in the smallest recess, where you can't see or get your hands in, and the tools won't fit, and you gotta work on it by leaning over the far side of the motor....whew, a man needs patience.
But damn, I am getting there. It can sure as hell be done.
I got a couple of hands free ways of holding the spring down. I found there is a sweet spot for spring compression that the bottom lip will slip in and hold them, and then they will just clip in when you give them a push or tap on top.
Nearly had another disaster this morning.
I got the evil bank finished, then I thought, oh ho, what is this.
What did I find lying in the top of the head but one of the little springs from the valve seals. A new one, not an old one...
I was absolutely depressed cause I thought I would have to pull them all off and put them all on again to find which one had lost his spring.
But luckily, little bit of deduction, the first one I pulled off, it was the one missing the spring.
In my haste, however, I forgot to put the rope in that cylinder before checking. Nearly lost the valve down the cylinder.
Again, but, fortune smiled on me, and it only dropped a short way.
The day was saved.
I thought how did this even happen, the spring come off?
I looked in the bag of valve stem seals. Ah, a couple of them have not been assembled very well, the rubber is not positioned well or the spring is half hanging off. So it pays to study them carefully before you poke them on with your fingers, into that dark pit of misery where they dwell. Make sure everything is in order.
This is some good advice I will be able to give to the next guy about this one.
Ha ha, I have a bunch, because I am always a comedy of errors.
Still got two eyes, haven't bled too much, and haven't broken or stuffed up anything yet, so I am well pleased with it all.
And just this very second those cam shaft locking tools came from Amazon.