Chip Old wrote:
>
> The factory shop manuals say to use gasket cement, but normally it isn't
> necessary. The kind of leakage you described shouldn't happen, with or
> without gasket goo. If it does, check how far above the block surface the
> liners protrude. Should be .003 in. - .005 in. (0.08 mm - 0.13 mm)
> measured after an initial head torquing to compress the figure eight
> gaskets at the bottoms of the liners.
>
**** ``After an initial head torquing''? None of my Triumph books said that.
Hmm, they say that you should check your _existing_ setup for liner protrusion
when you happen to pop the head off. OK, it makes sense then. Unfortunately,
I put my engine together and measured the protrusion without a preliminary
torquing. Had to sand down the cylinder sleeve tops too, because the
machine shop insisted on grinding the head surface; he said it was warped.
Well, it's been two years; So far so good; no exhaust bubbles in the
coolant :-).
- Jerry Kaidor
p.s. They don't ``protrude'', how inelegant. They ``Stand Proud'', that's
much better :-).
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