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Showing posts with label bent valves. Show all posts
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12 September 2012

Perspective, or how taking the time to look at something changes everything.

Yesterday I took apart a B-series head. Looks all honky dory, right? 


Here's #3:




All the bits and pieces:


People who don't pull engines apart regularly would likely not believe how much junk gets chucked around when something goes wrong. Case in point: Aluminum shavings on another cylinders intake valves:

So, why am I messing with this? The owner of the head is letting me have it for mock-up purposes. Mocking up what? That remains to be seen . . . heh heh heh