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Old Nov 18, 2006 | 10:50 AM
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From: Building a gearbox in Markyate
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Dropped exhaust valve head, due to forced over-rev caused by a downshift by mistake instead of an upshift.
Have seen it before, and quite often the over-rev can be some little while before the valve failure!
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