Update time!
Though honestly the last time I touched this thing was when I pushed it in to the garage after the FG track day(all right, I did wash it later on). But with very little to do over the winter I've been guilty of
I'll do it next weekend. The gauge is still not in, I'll sort that out but in the meantime I had to deal with an issue that happened at the FG track day - valve adjustment. I noticed it started tapping(knocking is more like it) after apparently the oil over heated. The oil indeed had, I found out after I changed it right after the track day.
So the issue of adjusting the valves was made harder by a crown nut being stuck on the middle of the valve cover. Over time it has been a place where it would let a tiny bit of oil through if you didn't tighten it enough... well the last time I did it it gave up. And got stuck. One of the "I'll do it later" jobs.
So this weekend I let the
other project sit and sort this out so I can get it on the road again.
After using up a few of these just to get a 10mm crown nut off I could remove the valve cover.
Still all there, at first glance nothing out of place.
Untill I spotted this little detail.
The locking nut of the rocker arm/valve adjustment had come loose. I later found it on the other side of the valve cover near an exhaust valve. These engines are known to have issues with the rocker arms under certain situations. Usually the valve clearance is just out of whack. I suppose there's this possibility as well. I can't say how
lucky I was that the nit didn't get wedged between one of the many places it could have.
Now all I need to do is get myself a new one of these. It's the bolt the valve cover crown nut is attached to.
I managed to get some sparco seats from a friend. These will show up when I get it out of me to take them with me from his place.