Saturday 19 February 2011

Winter chores in the engine room

Andy is now living in Lobelia's engine room and is attracting as much oil and grease as possible. He calls it engine maintenance and tells me that he is refurbishing the cylinder heads - all ten of them.
Lobelia was in serious need of a de-coke and a valve regrind (aren't we all?) and we hope that this will improve her breathing, help her to give up smoking and stop her from gassing onlookers at locks.
Andy thanks his dad for teaching him the ancient art of valve lapping at an early age and is hoping to pass this knowledge on to his own sons if he can get them off the trampoline.
Shiv has visited the engine room with cups of coffee and did clear some 25 year old slimy black yuck from the nearly-inaccessible bilge under the engine. Nice!

This engine runs on tomato soup!

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