08-06-2022, 06:20 PM
Thanks for the advice. I have a very well thumbed Doug Woodrow David, extremely useful.
I test ran the car this afternoon and was quite impressed with my amateurish renovations.
No leaks and running much quieter. I decoked the head and emptied a barrow load of silt out of the tractor carb.
For those of you that answered my other thread, top marks for anyone who suggested loose flywheel - spot on!
The flywheel was very loose, it’s now very tight and virtually all the knocks and bangs have gone.
I think I’ll go along the plastigague route and research rebuilding the white metal bearings.
There is definitely movement in the bearings, but I don’t think it’s worsened in the last few weeks. There is no contamination of the oil yet.
Something I will need to watch closely.
Cheers,
Richard.
I test ran the car this afternoon and was quite impressed with my amateurish renovations.
No leaks and running much quieter. I decoked the head and emptied a barrow load of silt out of the tractor carb.
For those of you that answered my other thread, top marks for anyone who suggested loose flywheel - spot on!
The flywheel was very loose, it’s now very tight and virtually all the knocks and bangs have gone.
I think I’ll go along the plastigague route and research rebuilding the white metal bearings.
There is definitely movement in the bearings, but I don’t think it’s worsened in the last few weeks. There is no contamination of the oil yet.
Something I will need to watch closely.
Cheers,
Richard.