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valve collet down the cam-chain tunnel

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madoc:
Got the collet; A tense hour with rebuild visions in my head. ;)
Bought a magnet on extendy thing; but no joy from above.
Glued rare earth magnet to bendy copper wire and fished around underneath (above primary); eventual success.

Here is the bit that was in an otherwse very clean sump (and I own british and russian bikes and am used to sludge).
It's sat next to a 5p piece.

It's snapped off something and is steel (i.e. magnetic).
Might be a tooth off a gear ?

LesterPiglet:
Looks like a dog off a gear.

madoc:
hmmm.. gears seem ok. I'll see how it goes.

I put the rocker cover back on.
I backed off all the valve adjusters to make it a bit easier to seat; and then reset the clearances.
Some rockers seem to be bouncing back off the cam with a definate and loud "thunk" - just turning slowly on the kickstart.

Looks like I've bent the valves and trashed the head then ...

http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=69244.msg766351#msg766351

It's not been a good week.

LesterPiglet:
It's easy to check just by removing the sump.

LesterPiglet:
Sorry brain fart. Too much weekend.  ;)

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