Posted by casebro on Friday, March 05, 2004 at 6:51PM :
In Reply to: 230 with stuck valve posted by earl callow on Friday, March 05, 2004 at 8:16AM :
maybe you can fiddle with the valves inside there. Reminds me of the first FF PW that my brother and I bought- had the head off in the rain for 6 months, so we sprayed WD-49 on everything, and hammered the valves back down, hand cranked it til theu all stuck up again, hammered them back down. Repeated til 11 of 12 fell by themselves, the brother bolted on the head (new gasket $6) while I slid underneath and let the water off the bottom of the oil- replaced drain plug when oil stated to come out. It ran, but 8 months later we tore it down for a rebuild, it was the most worn out motor I've ever seen- circlips fell out of the pistons, valve so burned that they looked like daisy's. Talk about "Auto Mechanics for Dummies"!!! what fun we had growing up.....