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Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 8:36 pm
by maxheadroom
Cheers Ian head arrived today 8) just hope I can get some of it done the weekend, in between decorating and a friends daughters first birthday :P

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:00 pm
by mikeonb4c
maxheadroom wrote:Cheers Ian head arrived today 8) just hope I can get some of it done the weekend, in between decorating and a friends daughters first birthday :P
Good luck. If only I was younger and fitter, this sounds like quite an exciting challenge in its own way, especially with the reassurance of a complete kit from our Ian - a nice touch, as its the running around getting parts that always does my head in =D>

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:06 pm
by Bob
Good luck, hope all goes well for you. :D

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:17 pm
by mister munkey
The one nasty thing I found when my head was replaced was the difference in shinyness between the block & the head.

I've spent over two years now trying to get them to match, poking holes in the rocker cover gasket seems to work alright.

:?

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Thu Feb 11, 2010 11:20 pm
by dandywarhol
Make sure there's moulded recesses in the cam cover bolt holes - otherwise you end up with oil leaks by overtightening it

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:33 am
by mikeonb4c
dandywarhol wrote:Make sure there's moulded recesses in the cam cover bolt holes - otherwise you end up with oil leaks by overtightening it
Good point - there's on old thread on here somewhere about that (rocker cover, if you can still call them that) isn't there?

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:28 am
by helen&tony
Hi
Yes...Best of Luck....I hope it doesn't take you too long!
Cheers
Helen

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:22 pm
by Doone
dandywarhol wrote:
Make sure there's moulded recesses in the cam cover bolt holes - otherwise you end up with oil leaks by overtightening it

Good point - there's on old thread on here somewhere about that (rocker cover, if you can still call them that) isn't there?
Is it THIS ONE?

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 6:50 pm
by dandywarhol
Aye :)

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 8:41 am
by maxheadroom
cheers chaps notes taken :D

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:38 pm
by maxheadroom
Well I should re name this thread "Max has a shinny new head Zoom Zoom" :D :D

Thanks for all the help and support chaps =D> =D>

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:43 pm
by mister munkey
I wish I had one of those firework emoticon wotsits. :lol:

Chuffin Well Done Mate!!!!!



=D> \:D/ =D> \:D/

You need to get some of those missing miles under your belt now!!!

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 6:44 pm
by maxheadroom
mister munkey wrote: You need to get some of those missing miles under your belt now!!!
Oh yes :P

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:41 pm
by francophile1947
mister munkey wrote:I wish I had one of those firework emoticon wotsits. :lol:
Like this :lol:
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Well done Max :D

Re: Max needs a new Head Gloom

Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:42 pm
by mikeonb4c
maxheadroom wrote:Well I should re name this thread "Max has a shinny new head Zoom Zoom" :D :D

Thanks for all the help and support chaps =D> =D>
FanBloodyTastic Max - never heard a murmour out of you while job was in progress. Just to give cheer to others who might need to do it, how did you find it doing the job? How did you get on with flatting the block etc. etc.

You are now one of a very select Bongo Tribe minority who have DIYed their own head (kind of appropriate that maxheadroom should be one of them)
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:lol: :lol: :lol: