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JulieIs that a new O ring on the starter motor spigot?I doubt they ever leak ? .... just looks a bit flat in its groove.
I was paranoid about all the seals being renewed when I rebuilt mine....no leaks to date.Now I just want it running right.... I suspect the cylinder head work that I offloaded, through lack of confidence in my skills, might not have been done quite thoroughly enough. This year's challenge.
Looking good. There might be a problem with that camshaft though!
Elastic bands were fitted to hold the tappets and rockers up out of the way whilst fitting the rocker cover to the engine. One thing I had not noticed previously was that one of the tappets had a small chip and one had quite bad pitting, so I found some replacements in the workshop and fitted them. Trig then applied a little Graphogen to the rocker pads.I fitted the cam shaft oil spray pipes with their nice new grommets and fitted the rocker cover and bolted it all down and removed the elastic bands.I adjusted one of the tappets and Trig did the rest. He re checked them all again this morning. This is where I found it all very awkward with the engine in the frame as it really was awkward getting the feeler gauge in the tappets with everything else in the way.Pitted tappet (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link)