09-24-2025, 04:43 AM
(09-22-2025, 10:39 AM)Gone in 60 Wrote: I'm fighting a twinge of "maintenance apathy" on my Bonneville.
When she rolled 12k miles, I dutifully pulled the tank, replaced the fuel filter and spark plugs, and checked the valves.
She needed a few shim changes to correct some tight valves, and in the process of the adjustment, despite my best efforts to plug holes in the top of the engine, a tiny camshaft cap alignment dowel fell into the crank case. Took a few days of careful work, and a lot of angst and cursing, but I fished it out with a custom-made magnet tool.
She rolled 24k miles recently. I have the new fuel filter and spark plugs standing by on my work bench to do the job again. Even have a new valve cover gasket. But I am not eager to pop the cover and check the valves again. I adjusted them on the loose side at 12k, hoping that at 24k, they'd be somewhere in the middle of spec.
I keep coming up with excuses... she has a full tank of gas. No sense doing it till she's empty.
Ugh. Just have to get off my duff and do it.
Done that. Had my '52 MG oil filter assembly, an old fashion canister type, removed to fit a spin on conversion. I have been trying to remove a central large screw in oilway for weeks and weeks. I could only bring myself to try for 20 minutes a day after failing miserably for half a day weeks ago. I finally cracked the thread after lots of heat cycles but I had really lost interest, I had to push myself to solve the issue. It had been there 73 years so I can't complain.