Grey cells fading

Chewing gum?

 

Whatever is suggested someone will find a reason not to, but a thin smear of grease should stick them on. My builder tells me when he was a mech at a dealership they would run the engine with them deliberately loose to heat them up before tightening with the engine running. Hmmm.
You know you have to anneal them first I'm sure. I don't think you can anneal them by running the engine with them loose but I bet they thought they were.

 

I have to anneal them? How do I do that?

 

Stick ‘em on a steel sheet (not the kitchen table ) and heat them with your propane torch until they’re cherry red. Makes ‘em nice’n’squishy.

 

I also cool them fast but I'm not sure if that's needed. Doesn't stop them going soft for sure.

 

Did mine with a pair of long nosed pliers and a torch. Doesn't the steel sheet suck the heat away?

 

Dunno. Didn’t set my Workmate alight

 

I've got some brass exhaust stud nuts - would you use copperslip on the studs chaps?

 

CV joints from wherever seem to last. CV boots last in proportion to what you pay. ..

 

Any old nut dry for me.

 

..or a piece of wire and drop an in a cup of water..should thunk not ping when you drop them afterwards..

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Seems I've made a schoolboy error. So excited about fitting my heat exchangers I forgot to put the metal elbow pipes up through the tinware first. Somehow I've managed to winkle the one in by the alternator but the one by the oil cooler (type 4) looks impossible. I gave up. Do I have to take the hest exchanger off or can I take the tin off - probably the carb too
Please tell me there's a way

 

There isn't a way.

 

Snail fans are rubbish anyway..... cap it off on the exchanger...

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So carb and top tin easiest then

 

I think if you have all the tin and pipes nice and airtight (and lagged) then coupled with the main fan and a bilge type fan installed at the front, you should get decent air flow.

 

I always realise as I'm putting the HX on and take it back off.

 

So I could just undo the 3 bolts to the exhaust and lower the H/Ex. Do you reckon the copper rings will be OK?

 

The million dollar question. Me? I start again, it's quicker in the long run.

 

Yeah I'd rather blow another £10 on copper gaskets .. but then again ..

I might have just said did it and capped them off.... got a cheap BT removed Eberspacher to figure out the wiring on that'll do the heating

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