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Oil pressure issue / motor rebuild
MrDavo:
Aagh! I tracked my shells from Japan to Manchester, today I got a latter from ParcelFarce, who have my package in there Manchester depot, but want me to pay £62 in duty, Vat and their extortionate £13.50 collection charge.
Today I have been mostly wet and drying my cam cover, I'd previously had a go at polishing it but that vapour blasted matt look is damned hard to get rid of in all the nooks and crannies. Later it'll get another dose of the polishing mop, I realised that if haven't done this stuff when the shells come, it's just going to hold the job up.
Later I might whip the valves out to see what the seats are like, and there's still plenty of well and truly stuck on delaminated head gasket to carefully scrape away at. I got some Loctite gasket shifter, but it doesn't seem to penetrate that deep, and I don't want to start scoring it with a knife in case I gouge the alloy.
MarkCR750:
Jeez £62 how's much did the shells cost?
MrDavo:
It came to about £200 including carriage with the 10 main bearing shells, 8 big end shells, the crank oil seal, and I also stupidly added a set of 4 rubber float chamber gaskets in too, only later did I realise I'd paid way over the odds for these, trying to avoid the silly cost of buying the gaskets as a part of 4 'rebuild kits'.
MarkCR750:
Seems a huge percentage of the cost of the parts, still that's the treasury I guess, legalised robbery.
hairygit:
Unfortunately as soon as goods from outside the E.U valued at £15 or more, import duty becomes payable, then V.A.T. on the goods value AND the p&p costs, plus parcel farce's rip off fee on top.
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