For the first time in over month I actually have some time to spend on
getting Saskia back on the road. When I last left the project a few
weeks ago I had removed the cylinder head, water pump, manifold and
carbs.
Today I have cleaned up the new rocker gear that I got from spitfire
graveyard with gunk, it came up very nicely. I have also scraped all of
the gasket faces with a knife and sanded them down to remove all of the
muck (water pump, manifold, down-pipe, carbs. I only scraped the head
and block without sanding.
I also had to make a small JB Weld repair to the water pipe on the inlet
manifold as it had rusted away at either end.
Tomorrow I have the 'simple' job of putting it all back together. I was
going to clean up the gasket faces with brake cleaner before
re-assembling. Is there anything in particular I should do to ensure
that the gaskets all make a good seal?
I am going to use some liquid gasket on the manifold/downpipe rather than
no gasket as other listers have advised.
I also have some liquid gasket that use as well as the gasket (rather
than instead of). I don't have any plans to use this anywhere, is there
anywhere that you would advise I do use it?
On restarting the engine I was going to make sure that the rockers were
well coated in oil, are there any other precautions that I should take?
cheers all,
John
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