On Mon, 2 Jan 1995, Jerome Kaidor wrote:
> Chip Old wrote:
> >
> > Sanded them down??? Ouch! Well, whatever works, I guess, but how did you
> > manage to take an even cut all the way around each sleeve? (Visions of
> *** I had the same doubts, but that's what the machine shop owner told me
> to do. I had a sheet of plate glass with 220-grit wet-or-dry taped to it,
> That's not the only home-made engineering job I did with that car;
> I have a friend who's a old-time british car mechanic. Now he teaches
> truck maintenance at a community college. Several years ago, I went
> and visited him there with the Clankster's head. He gave me a big file,
> a machinist's straightedge, and a feeler gauge. Using these three tools,
> I was able to take out the warp in the head surface.
>
Now it can be told. I put new rings in my 54 Metropolitan in 66 before I
sold it. Because I lacked access to a ridge reamer (and the ridge was
pretty significant), I removed the ridge with a half-round file. The car
was still in daily use 2 years later and doing fine.
Ray Gibbons
Born in the Ozarks--a ridge *runner* but not a ridge reamer.
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