For the first time in over month I actually have some time to spend on getting Saskia back on the road. When I last left the project a few weeks ago I had removed the cylinder head, water pump, manifold and carbs.
Today I have cleaned up the new rocker gear that I got from spitfire graveyard with gunk, it came up very nicely. I have also scraped all of the gasket faces with a knife and sanded them down to remove all of the muck (water pump, manifold, down-pipe, carbs. I only scraped the head and block without sanding. I also had to make a small JB Weld repair to the water pipe on the inlet manifold as it had rusted away at either end. Tomorrow I have the 'simple' job of putting it all back together. I was going to clean up the gasket faces with brake cleaner before re-assembling. Is there anything in particular I should do to ensure that the gaskets all make a good seal? I am going to use some liquid gasket on the manifold/downpipe rather than no gasket as other listers have advised. I also have some liquid gasket that use as well as the gasket (rather than instead of). I don't have any plans to use this anywhere, is there anywhere that you would advise I do use it? On restarting the engine I was going to make sure that the rockers were well coated in oil, are there any other precautions that I should take? cheers all, John HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list /// Send admin requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive /// Send list postings to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, they will NOT be sent.
