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Old Dec 20, 2015 | 04:08 PM
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So ive been getting some miles on the old girl since she's been back on the road. On Monday she started displaying the twincam head gasket sympyoms she had about 2 and a half years ago when she was last on the road. Twincam engines tend to do a few thousand miles with the hg on its way out. But by Friday morning she had so much water in number 4 cylinder it hydro locked the engine. Pulled the plug out and started her up, plug back in and drove her over to the workshop.

Being so busy at the moment I really don't have time to do the hg, so I just fitted an engine out of stock quickly.

Drove her in the workshop Friday night

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Engine out that evening


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Put the replacement engine in yesterday and drove her home. Much better now. Even gave the car a wash, she was filthy as you can see in the pics

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