just a quickie…heading from ipswich now down into London, and thus to Luton Airport, where I will pull a Tom Hanks and overnight, being too cheap to do a motel room. It’s been awesome. And I’m sad to be going. I’ve had a few epiphanies regarding the nature of my being English and friends, and [...]

and I worked off every last calorie hoisting those darn bags across London

Have arrived safely after decent but mostly sleepless flight. Smelly and tired! Can’t spend long here as am on borrowed computer and it’s rude to hog it. But it’s not raining, there are 2 cats, and it’s awfully pretty. I’ll have better netaccess later.

This post is part of a series. The index is here. Now, we’ll time the front (#2 cylinder) timing gears. We’ve already timed the rear (#1 cylinder) gears. The front cylinder’s timing gears live behind the right-hand crankcase cover. First, we rotated the engine so the driven (upper-right) timing gear mark faces the crankshaft (lower-left). [...]

This post is part of a series. The index is here. We did a quick check of the valves without removing them from the head. We used a breaker bar on a deep socket to rotate the camshaft bolt to examine the seating surfaces. The exhaust valve (left) opens as we rotate the camshaft nut. [...]