As of today, we have 3 groups already completed their 2-day sessions. My wife who have been patiently helping me from the beginning advised me to make a short lesson plan and re-name it as Engine Rebuilding Workshop instead of “Engine Rebuilding Classes”.
Starting tomorrow with the 4th group, I will make a short note or reminder to follow the sequence and topics to be discussed because I could easily get distracted and forget something. A good example was what happened yesterday. During the course of the cam timing procedures, we encountered a minor problem but immediately corrected it. A participant did the cam timing for cylinder 1-2-3 with 1.50 mm cam reading. The other cam for 4-5-6 was done by another participant. After a few cam timing adjustment he got exactly 1.50 mm. These identical readings were a first ever.
The elation and excitement among the participants was something to remember. And we were 2 hours ahead of schedule. And we stopped working after achieving 1.50 mm/1.50 mm cam timing. If I had a written lesson plan, I would not missed the cam timing sprocket alignment measurement. That was my mistake. And will have a written note to remind me of things to do next time.
Group I (September 6-7):
Group II (September 9-10):
Group III (September 13-14):
Three (3) more groups and will take a long vacation to California to recover.
Tony