willoroe
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« Reply #15 on: 01 December, 2023, 01:36:53 PM » |
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Agreed, Thanks Richard, fascinating stuff.
Regarding the Crankshaft Vibration Damper the Workshop Manual only says 'check wear of friction disks and dowels'. No mention of how you might check that it is working.
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Richard Fridd
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« Reply #16 on: 01 December, 2023, 06:13:20 PM » |
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Looking forward to Clarkey's report when the time comes. Seems to be a lot of Flaminia activity currently.
I should be able to reassemble the cylinder heads, sump and end covers next week, and have a complete spare engine.
As I have spare triple DCNL carburettors, these could be used and at this stage a camshaft to match these carburettors could be fitted quite easily.
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« Reply #17 on: 04 December, 2023, 06:11:31 PM » |
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When refittng the oil sump it is worth leaving the pickup gauze until last, as the pipe needs to go through the baffle hole easily.
And the rubber grommet can be fitted without falling off.
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« Reply #18 on: 10 December, 2023, 06:22:50 PM » |
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Engine reassembled to be returned to storage.
Surprises encountered,
Cylinder Heads cooperative during removal
Camshaft locating screws lining up first attempt
The hitherto mystery of timing the valve train with feeler gauges not so mysterious.
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« Reply #19 on: 10 December, 2023, 08:38:50 PM » |
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Looks great Richard, they're a lovely looking engine  I'm soon to be building up my Flavia engine which has a similar cam timing system to the Flaminia, sounds complicated on paper but you found it OK once you get your head around it? |
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Richard Fridd
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« Reply #20 on: 11 December, 2023, 06:39:45 AM » |
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The method which I interpreted was set the no.1 inlet valve clearance to 1mm+
The point at which this valve starts to open ie this clearance becomes zero, the TDC mark on the flywheel should be two teeth away from the 1/4 mark on the flywheel housing.
With the engine rotating in it's normal direction and the cam chain taught, the cam sprocket dowel can be fitted in a hole which actually maintains the tension, rather than allowing slight chain slackness, which would erroneously equate to several degrees discrepancy.
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« Reply #21 on: 11 December, 2023, 10:35:45 AM » |
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Engine reassembled to be returned to storage.
Surprises encountered,
Cylinder Heads cooperative during removal
Camshaft locating screws lining up first attempt
The hitherto mystery of timing the valve train with feeler gauges not so mysterious.
That's great! Wish mine was so cooperative. |
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« Reply #22 on: 11 December, 2023, 11:40:44 AM » |
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Shouldnt cams be timed wrt Tdc not an advance on that?
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« Reply #23 on: 11 December, 2023, 01:10:52 PM » |
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From the manual.
Nothing lost in translation I hope.
Most useful tools for this engine disassemble and reassembly turned out to be a low bench on castors, negating the need for an engine stand, a really well designed valve spring compressor and the modified oil pump drive shaft used to operate the oil pump.
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« Reply #24 on: 11 December, 2023, 07:17:01 PM » |
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You also have the advantage over me with the Flavia engine in only having one cam to time up whereas I have one for each pair of cylinders. Looks a very similar process to the Flavia engine too |
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« Reply #25 on: 11 December, 2023, 07:48:26 PM » |
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Not that there is much to fix to, but probably a tool to hold the camshafts in position would be useful when the sprockets are 'free wheeling'.
I suppose much easier with all tappets backed off and the valve springs not influencing the positioning of camshafts.
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