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I cannot find your email..I think my PC tanked it when I switched to a Mac. Anyway...can
you please send my panels back to me. I need to make sure they leave
with the airplane.
Yeah...it may be leaving my hands....sadly.
Read this topic online here:
http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=175185#175185
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| Subject: | wonkish cylinder maintenance questions |
Anybody have a rule of thumb (I know that an actual number of foot-pounds w
ould be too much to ask for) for torquing the bolt the provides the pivot f
or the rocker arms?
I changed a valve last week and then noticed that my engine was pretty soak
ed with oil (well, more than usual :-). Further investigation revealed tha
t a pretty good drip was coming out the side of the rocker arm bolt (er, re
ally more around the edge of the washer on the "head" side of the bolt, to
be precise) -- in my zeal to not over-tighten it, I under-tightened it.
So before I just make something up, I thought I'd ask how to do it right.
Bonus question: If I tighten it to a certain point and that doesn't line up
with the cotter pin hole, should I go just a little tighter or little loos
er to the next slit in the castle nut?
And here's a really wonkish question...
In the past, I had placed the cylinder base gasket over the bolts coming ou
t of the block (it's easiest to get it aligned just right) and put the o-ri
ng on the cylinder skirt.
However, the book seems to suggest that you slide the gasket over the skirt
and then put the o-ring on after that so that it's all riding on the cylin
der when you slide it onto the base bolts.
Anybody got an argument one way or the other? I usually spray my gaskets w
ith that copper-colored sealant to make them slightly tacky -- I haven't ha
d any gaskets blow out since I started using that -- and so it's easier to
put the gasket on the block.
And on that, what I learned a while back is that a blown-out cylinder base
gasket ups your oil consumption by about 2.5 quarts an hour. :-)
Jon
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