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Brisbane
Registered:
October 2002
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Re: the beast is on the road
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Sun, 06 April 2003 03:14
 
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the problems:
i get the 18RGU and went to put it in one weekend, that was 4 months ago, we needed to swap the sumps, the 18RG one was full of milky oil, dead headgasket, we pulled it off to reveal the headgasket was really dead, we pulled the pistons and found the rings were seized in, they had to soak in industrail degreaser for 24 hours to remove them. i got the head skimmed and pressure tested and put it all back together and found it only just ran, and couldn't pull the skin off a custard, we eventually had to get it towed from capalaba to springwood {30k} to the exhaust shop to get the old exhaust hooked up so it could then be taken to the tune shop.
He took the tops off the solexs, blew them out, tried to start it, no go, did a pressure test found pressures of 25, 35, 35, 75, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. got charged $100 for that too
i thought the valves may need to be reseated, more costs, turned out the shims were too fat and were just holding open the valves.
paid $45 to get my old ones skimmed, got it together and got pressures of 90, 100, 100, 110.
got another set of carbs from CROSTEK, pu them on and it went alot better, drove it 30k to another tune shop in Woolloongabba, left it there for 2 weeks, he rebuilt both carbs, did a new linkage and supplied another ramflo skeleton for $495, and just got it back on friday, it fuels up down lowand a bit in the mid and then screams up top, but as i said it needs all that shit before it can be FULLY tuned to a daily driver
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