Some sheduled maintenance
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:02 pm
here's abit of spanner work for you
Due to the bad weather I had some spare time to carry on with some jobs on the old D8.When we did the engine overhaul back in 2006 I didn't bother replacing the caps that sit on top of the valves. I bought some new ones last summer but didn't get arround to fitting them.I did the front ones when sorting out a leaking rocker cover gasket last season but didn't do the back ones untill thursday of this week.
We picked a day when we knew it would be parked up(it was pi##ing down ALL day) and I let Billy the kid loose on it.I agree it wasn't ideal conditions for going into the top of an engine but it was better than a dusty day.The rocker cover gives a good indication as to the condition of the engine and I was pleased to see it was nice and clean(they are ofton sludgy).We tinkered about with it for an hour and a half doing the exhaust at 20 and the air at 16(or was it the other way around? ).A good fitter will do this in 30 mins.
Anyway we cracked it up and I dogged some sand out with it for the rest of the shift while Billy chainsawed some logs up for my fire at home.
Into the pit I found the D5 was doing abit on the head of the cut.
Due to the bad weather I had some spare time to carry on with some jobs on the old D8.When we did the engine overhaul back in 2006 I didn't bother replacing the caps that sit on top of the valves. I bought some new ones last summer but didn't get arround to fitting them.I did the front ones when sorting out a leaking rocker cover gasket last season but didn't do the back ones untill thursday of this week.
We picked a day when we knew it would be parked up(it was pi##ing down ALL day) and I let Billy the kid loose on it.I agree it wasn't ideal conditions for going into the top of an engine but it was better than a dusty day.The rocker cover gives a good indication as to the condition of the engine and I was pleased to see it was nice and clean(they are ofton sludgy).We tinkered about with it for an hour and a half doing the exhaust at 20 and the air at 16(or was it the other way around? ).A good fitter will do this in 30 mins.
Anyway we cracked it up and I dogged some sand out with it for the rest of the shift while Billy chainsawed some logs up for my fire at home.
Into the pit I found the D5 was doing abit on the head of the cut.