Ping Pip

Is there any chance I can borrow your bike trailer tomorrow?

This cuntin' bike has gone beyond my limited knowledge and patience. So I'd
like to take the thing to visit my Dad, who can talk me through it.

Or do you fancy taking a look, for cash, natch.

 

No probs.

Sounds like a plan.

I'd normally be pleased to help you out Matt, but I'm just about up to
eyebrow level atm and it's fucking cold and damp to boot. List yer
symptoms and let's see what the great and good come up with ...

 

Ta, check your email.

Great and good? Er, ok. 'orrible noise from t' engine. From previous posts I
decided to investigate the valve clearances. *If* I've been doing it right,
there is fucking *huge* clearance on both outlet ports on cylinder one,
given the massiveness off the gap, and that it's the same on both ports, I
reckon I'm doing it wrong - but I'm fucked if I can work out what I'm doing
wrong.

 

// assuming clearences are big compared to other valves

wild_guess_based_on_a_position_of_ignorance_mode = TRUE;

sticky_valves ? RemoveHead() : LookElsewhere();

wild_guess_base... actually, I'll just leave that enabled for now.

 

Well... that's not me but, if the clearances are *massively* different
on one cylinder (at the end of the cam) to those on all the other
cylinders... and it makes a horrible noise, are the camshaft bearing
caps tight at that end of the cam shaft? It may be worth just seeing if
you can wobble the camshaft about a bit at the end, if so and the caps
are torqued up it could be expensive.