Posted by Steve-S (IP: 24.93.38.231) on July 04, 1999 at 22:27:55:
WooHoo. It's done. Funny how with 2 bolts for guides the head goes on in under 5 minutes. As opposed to the 20 I'd spent the day before trying to line em all up by eyeball. Made my eyeball hurt too. :-) Got it all back together and did a power flush on the coolant system. Just some rusty type water and not much of that. Went clear in under a min. Set the timing also. It was off near the bottom of the guide thingy. It idles alot better but seems to miss and run rough when I give it some gas. That's w/o a load (in park). Fixing to give it a short test drive to see how it does under a full load. Didn't clean or replace the spark plugs so thier still a bit fouled. Oh well. Guess it is the bloody rings. Sure wish I'd bought that motor stand I saw on Ebay once for like $30.00. Bet it went for more than that tho as the auction neared it's end.
Happy Fourth everyone.
Steve-S
PS. Democracy's, historically, have never worked. They allways degrade into totalitarianism. Thomas Jefferson.
(sure hope he's wrong this once) :-)