Dereck,
You said Sykes machine shop. Is that in Alexandria? I had a Sykes machine
shop put together my full race flat head Merc engine in about 1959 to put in
a 1939 rag top Merc. Neat place, he had crank grinders and cam grinders and
all sorts of things a 16 or 17 year old drools over. They did an excellent
job on my engine. Wish I still had it. Had to leave it in Virginia when my
folks moved back to Oregon. Went from 20 year old cars to 30 year old cars.
Some progress huh?
Dave 72 B
-----Original Message-----
From: Dereck C <derex39@hotmail.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:47 PM
Subject: Rocker Assembly
>Hi all,
>
>In my continueing saga of reassembling this B motor I have come to another
>area of uncertainty. I am putting the freshly machined rocker assembly on
a
>non-crossflow alum head. A couple of months ago I went to a MG cylinder
>tech session here in VA (Sykes Machine Shop) and comment came out "don't
>forget to put on the washer" when attaching the rocker assembly. What
>washer were they talking about? Could it be the shims? This is a 70
block,
>I am not sure I had shims (it has been 2 years since I took it apart) - was
>the conclusion to put them on (previous thread). I checked the archives
but
>I could not seem to see a conclusion (Lawrie? Barney?)? I would hate to
>ruin a brand new rocker assembly.
>
>Big Thanks
>
>Dereck
>
>BTW I am on the digest, please copy me on your reply.
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