Old Aug 19, 2005 | 11:49 PM
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Default WORD OF WARNING - BEER IS BAD FOR YOUR ENGINE!!!!!!!!

As above .................. well not exactly just a tip for future reference if you are building up your latest pride and joys engine dont do it with a case of beer

As i have just built my self a 2.1, having just fitted it to the car and getting it running all be it a little smokey i desided to start to clean up the garage of all the left over shite only to find a set of oil scrapper/control rings off piston no. 2 tucked away in a bag in the corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also now having run the engine up to temperture the head gasket is usless and could not be re-used so that one scrap fel-pro gasket in the bin ............................ Oh yeah and another good one to point out if you fancy having a go at cleaning up the head dont for get to remove the valve stem seals before filling the head up with nitro-morse they go a stringy if left for too long (looked a bit like black chewing gum)

So in short steer clear of the CARLING if your going to be touching some spanners 'n' greasy bits
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