Breaking the Seal on Barrels
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
Silly question and I can already guess the answer but it is hard to see from the picture, it looks like a number of the nuts are still in place are they all undone?
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
Thanks Duncan
If only it were that simple - all the nuts are loose, (how do I know? - I must have checked 20 or more times in the hope one wasn't )
Have now added another beam and still no joy.
Come Monday I have a sneaking suspicion I'll be on the phone to Phil at L. P. Williams
Regards Mick
If only it were that simple - all the nuts are loose, (how do I know? - I must have checked 20 or more times in the hope one wasn't )
Have now added another beam and still no joy.
Come Monday I have a sneaking suspicion I'll be on the phone to Phil at L. P. Williams
Regards Mick
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
So you didn't fancy trying the way I'd found that others do it, apparently successfully?
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
In you look at your photo only one looks loose. Is it not that you have to undo them as it come off just like the G15 engine to give you the space to remove the base nut.?Mick D wrote:Thanks Duncan
If only it were that simple - all the nuts are loose, (how do I know? - I must have checked 20 or more times in the hope one wasn't )
Have now added another beam and still no joy.
Come Monday I have a sneaking suspicion I'll be on the phone to Phil at L. P. Williams
Regards Mick
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
Hi Janet
I estimate I have at least four times the force that the fins could take applied - the barrels are in perfect condition and I'm keen to keep them that way.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Regards Mick
I estimate I have at least four times the force that the fins could take applied - the barrels are in perfect condition and I'm keen to keep them that way.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Regards Mick
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
Hi Roy
The nuts will just come off if the studs don't come up - all of them have a clearance at the moment - I'd rather leave them in situ until the barrels move .
But the barrels just don't want to move.
Regards Mick
The nuts will just come off if the studs don't come up - all of them have a clearance at the moment - I'd rather leave them in situ until the barrels move .
But the barrels just don't want to move.
Regards Mick
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
Try parrafin / diesel mix down bores let it stand for a week, like Janet says try gentle jacking on bottom studs use large penny size washers between nuts and barrels to spread load, applying some pressure, heat up barrels hand hot, then work round the barrels with a hard mallet and block of hard wood, strike at 90 degrees to fins not a angle , you don't want to break fins, if no joy, reapeat process,
Being a triple it could be the rings have rusted in bores. Good luck with the project .as they say softly , softly catchee monkey.
Being a triple it could be the rings have rusted in bores. Good luck with the project .as they say softly , softly catchee monkey.
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
Just to avoid the thread going up a blind alley, Mick has recently added that th'engine is free and not seized.bitza wrote:Try parrafin / diesel mix down bores let it stand for a week,
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Re: Breaking the Seal on Barrels
Point noted Spriddlers , but if the engine is free and spins ok, could it sealant on the base of cylinders, or if the same are alloy material
Might it be Electrolysis corrosion or rust between the head bolts and cylinder block just a thought looking at the photo he's I did I see the head bolts.
Might it be Electrolysis corrosion or rust between the head bolts and cylinder block just a thought looking at the photo he's I did I see the head bolts.