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Old 11-01-2008 | 09:39 PM
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getting desperate now for a .5 2wd piston for my 100e so have started ringing round all known yb builders.
rang harvey, A1,Pj with no joy. who else can I ring?
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Old 11-01-2008 | 09:43 PM
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Someone 'old school' like Dave Brooks maybe Steve ?

http://www.davebrooks-engines.co.uk
Old 11-01-2008 | 09:44 PM
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getting desperate now for a .5 2wd piston for my 100e so have started ringing round all known yb builders.
rang harvey, A1,Pj with no joy. who else can I ring?
cheers

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So you have rang round the all known yb builders and come up with three names and can't think of any more
Old 11-01-2008 | 09:47 PM
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I said I have started not finished!!
was at work today, and in betweeen jobs was finding numbers and then ringing!
want the thing fixed for croft, I broke it just after croft in 2003!!
been too long

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Old 11-01-2008 | 09:50 PM
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steve your shocking mate you moan at me about my 2k and you still aint got this going.lol
Old 11-01-2008 | 09:51 PM
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Dunno if Dave Alwood (in Markse) is still messing around with YB's?
Old 11-01-2008 | 09:53 PM
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Karl Norris?
Julian Godfery? (sp)
Tommy Field FMS?
JEMS Race Engineering?
Old 11-01-2008 | 09:54 PM
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ive a few hundred pistons here,should have some secondhand ones that are still good if you get stuck.
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Why not just use a new one???
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Originally Posted by martin-reyland
Why not just use a new one???
everyone I have asked have said I can only buy 4 which aint cheap, plus I then have to get them all decked to match the block

tim, thanks do you have a contact number please

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Originally Posted by boon
Dunno if Dave Alwood (in Markse) is still messing around with YB's?
he is still looking but he has that much stuff it's like looking for a needle in a haystack

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Originally Posted by the youth
Originally Posted by martin-reyland
Why not just use a new one???
everyone I have asked have said I can only buy 4
steve
I'm going to step backwards and leave you to it as you know best
Old 11-01-2008 | 10:24 PM
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ste leave it with me ,i will see wot i can do .just pm me the sizes and i will see
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Originally Posted by mad dog younge
.just pm me the sizes and i will see
Did you not read the first post?
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This is the reason the piston's needed, the head of no'4 inlet valve fell off!!



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Originally Posted by the youth
Originally Posted by martin-reyland
Why not just use a new one???
everyone I have asked have said I can only buy 4
steve
I'm going to step backwards and leave you to it as you know best
harvey told me this, this very afternoon,I don't know best and I'm not been arsey as far as I can see..
if you can buy them on there own great

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Originally Posted by the youth
Originally Posted by martin-reyland
Originally Posted by the youth
Originally Posted by martin-reyland
Why not just use a new one???
everyone I have asked have said I can only buy 4
steve
I'm going to step backwards and leave you to it as you know best
harvey told me this, this very afternoon,I don't know best and I'm not been arsey as far as I can see..
if you can buy them on there own great

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I can buy individual pistons so I can't understand why everyone else can't. It's non turbo?
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it's about 2-3 mil martin can't remember, do you get them direct and if so can you get me a price for one please, credit card sat here waiting lol
thanks,
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Originally Posted by the youth
it's about 2-3 mil martin can't remember, do you get them direct and if so can you get me a price for one please, credit card sat here waiting lol
thanks,
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pm me on monday and I will sort it..
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it's about 2-3 mil martin can't remember, do you get them direct and if so can you get me a price for one please, credit card sat here waiting lol
thanks,

here a better pic of the piston and the offending valve





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Old 11-01-2008 | 10:47 PM
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Originally Posted by the youth
it's about 2-3 mil martin can't remember, do you get them direct and if so can you get me a price for one please, credit card sat here waiting lol
thanks,
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pm me on monday and I will sort it..


cheers m8,

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Originally Posted by martin-reyland
Originally Posted by mad dog younge
.just pm me the sizes and i will see
Did you not read the first post?
sorry big guy .check the post half way through
Old 11-01-2008 | 11:28 PM
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blimey Martin, just refused to ask ya eh
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Originally Posted by Sideways_Sierra
blimey Martin, just refused to ask ya eh
Maybe I was 'black balled'
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Originally Posted by NUTS RuS
Someone 'old school' like Dave Brooks maybe Steve ?

http://www.davebrooks-engines.co.uk
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Originally Posted by Sideways_Sierra
blimey Martin, just refused to ask ya eh
what does that mean in english?

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Originally Posted by martin-reyland
Why not just use a new one???
or 4
Old 11-01-2008 | 11:50 PM
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prob most folk will only keep them in sets of 4 wont want split them
Old 12-01-2008 | 09:37 AM
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the engine had only done 2457 miles from being built when it failed, hence my reluctance to buy 4 if I can help it.


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