Oldfeller--FSO
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Routy, we only war the things that need investigational data to support picking the best corrective action pathway.
We have warred a whole lot of things over the years -- cam chains, cam chain adusters, clutches, clutch rods, head bearings, petcocks and oil levels until we had documented down the "things to do" about each one of them.
Right now we are between any new serious maintenance issues ... and yeah, it is kinda boring right now but unless you can find something else that needs fixing you are gonna have to jest help the newbies as they ask their "innocent questions".
Or go provoke Bill over Klotz -- that's what I always did when I got bored. Seafoam works too.
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What about our scoots always comes up and always needs to be fixed that shouldn't?
I think that folks getting the "ticky ticky" in their heads is gonna become more prevalent over time but that is due to their motor oil not supporting flat tappet/cam lobe line contact friction/film strengths any more (thank you government EPA laws for that).
This is a big big issue through out the muscle car/restoration community. Corvairs have the exact same system we do, old VWs and old Porsche's too. Eat up with it !!! Big issue with engines dying all the time (and we will have them too, soon enough).
There is a guy putting super smooth, super hard ceramic pads on old Porsche rockers, how's that for a high dollar solution? Retro fitting roller tappets would be nice, but we lack the room for them inside our heads.
The Kawasaki Z1 group is getting it too, but their symptom is spaulling of the cam lobes as their bucket shims are harder than the cam steel.
Go war that for a bit and see where it goes ....
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