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Old 06-22-2019, 12:54 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Yes, I finished putting her together yesterday. It was funny, as I mentioned, the instructions that I had stopped when I put the valve cover back on. The disassembly instructions had fifteen steps before opening up the engine. Number fifteen was to remove the top bracket. I spent five minutes looking for the top bracket so I could reinstall it.

I never removed it. I guess that I did not need to!

I should probably go back and remove #15. I will look at the other steps and try to adjust, but I still get lost.

Instead of looking at #14 I just started reconnecting everything, took off a couple of things again because something else needed to go on first, and spent a great deal of time looking for lost parts.

I never found a 10mm bolt, but it fell well after I put the engine back together, and I am positive that the sound is from a poor valve adjustment. I need to fire the guy that did it!

I could not figure out how to reassemble the fuel rail except for laying on my engine. Maybe I should purchase some lounge cushions in case I ever need to do that again.

By the way, I used the scrap plastic trick to get several more nuts and bolts back in their spots. I do not have any idea how else I could have accomplished that.

Wait, magnets exist. That could have worked.
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