<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Good observation Skip and one that made me go back and look again ..</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_kjhlq2ad2" alt="image.png" width="309" height="559"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">As you can see the sides of one of the 2 odd washers (both are the same) are absolutely parallel. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">It would take someone with a lot of skill to shear the sides off individually to achieve that degree of accuracy on both washers and really ... would anyone go to that much effort?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_kjhlopr40" alt="image.png" width="285" height="559"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Additionally the washers have been punched out, not ground or filed to size as is evident from the shear marks on the sides.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I realize that this is totally insignificant in the scheme of things but being a very poor sleeper I tend to stay awake at night and think about these things. :-)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">I have found that there is usually a good explanation for these things but this has me stumped.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">Please ... help me get a good night's sleep.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small">M<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br><br><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 1:28 PM Skip Saunders <<a href="mailto:tfsbj7@gmail.com">tfsbj7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Judging by the curvature of the washers, the five appear to be of the original manufactured type. The two appear to be regular washers that have been ground down to fit in the narrow channel. Do you see the same disparity among washers in the oil pan (it too uses those types of narrow channel compatible washers I believe.)<div>Thanks</div><div>-skip-</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 3, 2021 at 12:57 PM Michael Salter <<a href="mailto:michaelsalter@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaelsalter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I'm working on an early 3000 engine and have found these 2 different types of </div>
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