The Donkey developed a "Knock" under load a couple of weeks ago. Boydey is the only one who knows how much load it was under.
It annoyed him enough to pop the engine out and strip it down.
Some over heating coming home from Jervis bay may have played a part, a slightly bent push rod, but nothing really stood out. Everything else looked very serviceable and in good nic.
New pistons, rings, bearings and a timing chain were ordered and as soon as they arrived were fitted.
Other than some lint from a rag on the piston, looking really good.
Then we pulled out the dial indicator and protractor to check cam timing. Damn it! We need an offset woodruff key to correct it. We had a 3 degree key but needed more so had to wait till the Monday to order it and then wait for it to arrive
. So Tuesday arvo after work, 20 minutes later the timing was correct at around 106 degrees, cover was fitted and Boydey could get on with the rest of the partial rebuild.
We did find the long centre branch exhaust had a crack nearly all the way around where the outer two pipes joined. Gee, wonder if that may have contributed to the sound ?
Anyway, Boydey is dropping it back in tommorrow, I'm sure it will be fine when he cranks it over in the arvo !
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