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Cylinder head

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19 Feb 2015 19:24 #138500 by troggy
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Actually Hinderwell, but I don't think anyone would know where it is. Whitby is the big city!

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19 Feb 2015 19:36 #138503 by troggy
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Well happy, sounds like a sowing machine on speed.


Took a LOT of water to get all the air out; kept looking underneath and on dipstick just in case.

Round the triangle, rad cap off and there is still water in it. BINGO!

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19 Feb 2015 19:42 #138507 by kirkynut
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Well done mate. I've done a few head gaskets now and a rebuild and it's a nervous moment firing it up for the first time!

Very satisfying though isn't it!

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19 Feb 2015 20:01 #138514 by mickt
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Good news then no leaks and running smooth. How much was the head skim out of interest?
According to Clarkson on Sundays Top Gear Whitby does the best fish and chips in the country!!

I am still cleaning and painting the bits I have taken off so that when it comes to refit time it should go smooth! I will start the head strip on a rainy day when I cannot work outside. At the moment I am cleaning and painting two sets of Jimny steels in the workshop so when they are out of the way that will be the next indoor job.

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20 Feb 2015 16:50 #138594 by troggy
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If I had the time and space I would make a proper job of it as I'm sure you are.

£35 for head skim! Happy with that.

Took her as far as Whitby today (about 8 miles from me),

two panic attacks- one where I mistook the fuel guage for temp, cos I'd put fuel in and am normally too tight to put enough in to go past the mid line, and the other when I thought she had cut out at a roundabout, but it was just that the engine was so quiet ha ha!

Up Lythe bank, steep and windy where I have previous for boiling the Jesus out of other cars, temp fine this time and water in rad when \i got home.

Wife says I am obsessed with this site and my Jim, so am going underground- expect 2am posts.

I think this thread is at it's end, anyone see me about in the silver/gold ragtop, give me a wave!

Best wishes

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20 Feb 2015 19:31 #138608 by troggy
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Probably right about the fish and chips but when you live here you don't go to the popular spots, just the local.

Anyway it works both ways as although fab fish and chips, the Whitby 'yummy mummies' on the school run seem to have rather overindulged!

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