I dropped all of the old oil out of number three, dropped all of the filters and cleaned them myself – one of the first jobs I was put down to do all that time ago.
There was no metal/glitter in the oil at that time.
I think the other thing to bare in mind James is that the photos published are actually of the same two cam lobes of the (24?) Valves inside the engine, only two afaik have really knackered lobes, I believe there was a third that wasnt so great either but not as bad as the other two.
There is the other small matter in that all the time effort and money (on both sides) has not been put into her so she can spend all of this summer sat dormant on the ramp at Airbase.
Lastly, the barn is some 20 odd miles from baginton, on a farm somewhere in deepest darkest warwickshire, the decent donks are buried under various piece of airframe/tyre and other associated aviation junk :diablo: so you’d need to spend a day/two down at the barn moving crap about until you can get a tug onto one of the engines (after finding which of the remaining 7 is the best and most complete… – pulling it out of the barn, loading it onto a low loader (which we dont have) taking it to cov, unloading it etc. then taking number 3 off, putting her onto the dolly that the new donk came on etc
Its not as simple as it may seem chap 😉
No one is thinking those cams are going to get any better mate 😉 We all know she needs an engine change, but how long has it taken to get to a stage where number 2 can now be bought back to life…
As Rich has said, if she can get through the majority of summer then all will be good 🙂 and a new donk sourced and put on.
The old one of course, donated, to me :diablo:
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