[Healeys] Felt sealing strips

[richard mayor]

I have built many engines for racing. I do not use the round cork, or felt,
plugs that come with those gasket sets.  I use cotton string.  I take a large
nail,  16p I think, and grind off the sharp tip. I now have something to tamp
down the string as I feed it into the hole between the main caps and the
block. I use a small lightweight ball-pein hammer to tamp down the string.
When I have filled the hole with compacted string I use a dab of silicone to
seal the end and keep the wadding in place. It only takes a minute or so per
hole.  This has always worked well for me.

Richard Mayor
Portland, Oregon

gives a good seal and none of the headache associated with trying to use the
cylindrical era i beliebe 9pek alargest

> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:21:28 +0100
> From: healeyguy at bredband.net
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: [Healeys] Felt sealing strips
>
> Hi
> Have installed new main bearings. The two in the middle took a couple of
> minutes, but the front and rear took the best part of the day. The felt
> sealing strips were very difficult, and at some stage I almost gave up,
> felt tempted to reuse my old ones. The front seems OK now, but the rear
> still have some material from the strip squeezed between the block and
> the cap. Will have to redo that tomorrow.
> Does anyone have any good tips on how to do this? I seem to remember
> that these strips originally were made of cork, but even the workshop
> manual says to install new cork or felt strips.
>
> Per in Sweden
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