15-12-2020, 03:29 PM
The last thing I'd call Terry is a 'bodger' but I understand what you're saying.
Mike Fitzmaurice told me some years ago that a day or so before an event, he found water in a cylinder of his blown racer. Taking the head off, he found that the water leak was through a rust spot on the side wall of a bore where it was particularly thin. He hadn't got time to change the block or whatever so cleaned the small hole out, dried it and filled it with epoxy. Next day he filed the repair down so that the piston rings cleared it, re-fitted the head and re-filled with water. Result, the 'repair' held. He went on to complete his season of events with that block with no further problems.
Steve
Mike Fitzmaurice told me some years ago that a day or so before an event, he found water in a cylinder of his blown racer. Taking the head off, he found that the water leak was through a rust spot on the side wall of a bore where it was particularly thin. He hadn't got time to change the block or whatever so cleaned the small hole out, dried it and filled it with epoxy. Next day he filed the repair down so that the piston rings cleared it, re-fitted the head and re-filled with water. Result, the 'repair' held. He went on to complete his season of events with that block with no further problems.
Steve