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<blockquote data-quote="riptragle1953" data-source="post: 38173" data-attributes="member: 2328"><p><strong>Talk</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">I do not think giving out information on astronomy is in the same ball park as Vincent advice. Say you have a cylinder head with a rocker tunnel so worn locking rocker</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">bolts won't hold it secure and you ask me how to fix it. Well the answer is simple: you sleeve the "tunnel" back to the original dimensions so the rocker bush is held tight.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Simple right? Talk is cheap. Now, to actually do it:</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Lean to be a machinist…….$$$$$$$</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Buy a good milling machine……$$$$$$$$</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Buy the tooling necessary for boring…..$$$$$$</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Buy the lathe and tooling to make the sleeve $$$$$$$</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Buy the precision measuring tools needed $$$$$$$</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Spend hundreds of man hours designing the jig to hold the head with "tunnel" dead in truth with the mill quill $$$$$$$$$</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Build the jig from raw material $$$$$$$</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">Now do as you were advised: sleeve the head.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">I advise folks with practical answer's and don't waist my time with advice only a Vincent specialized machine shop can repair. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Rounded MT Bold'">So, like you…. for free….. I can say sleeve the head.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="riptragle1953, post: 38173, member: 2328"] [b]Talk[/b] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]I do not think giving out information on astronomy is in the same ball park as Vincent advice. Say you have a cylinder head with a rocker tunnel so worn locking rocker[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]bolts won't hold it secure and you ask me how to fix it. Well the answer is simple: you sleeve the "tunnel" back to the original dimensions so the rocker bush is held tight.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Simple right? Talk is cheap. Now, to actually do it:[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Lean to be a machinist…….$$$$$$$[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Buy a good milling machine……$$$$$$$$[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Buy the tooling necessary for boring…..$$$$$$[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Buy the lathe and tooling to make the sleeve $$$$$$$[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Buy the precision measuring tools needed $$$$$$$[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Spend hundreds of man hours designing the jig to hold the head with "tunnel" dead in truth with the mill quill $$$$$$$$$[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Build the jig from raw material $$$$$$$[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]Now do as you were advised: sleeve the head.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]I advise folks with practical answer's and don't waist my time with advice only a Vincent specialized machine shop can repair. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Arial Rounded MT Bold]So, like you…. for free….. I can say sleeve the head.[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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