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Originally Posted by mikedsilva
So, did you find it?
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Haha, yeah I did! Have been meaning to type an update on this and the main build log. Dad, my brother and I spent an hour holding timing chains, rotating crank and holding rods out of the way. We were just about to give up and concede that it had done a Lord Lucan (disappered into thin air). We tried flipping the engine over, turning it slow, then fast...you name it.
All of a sudden my brother and I heard the same metallic ping. Cue the jaw dropped stare at each other and the cheeky grin....just to test, we got a spare clip and dropped it onto floor. Nope, different noise, both agreed. Dropped it into engine stand? Nope not the same. Great, this could be the Bingo moment. Now handling everything like (I hope) a surgeon would treat a client, we got the torches out again and finally we saw it lying on one of the internal walls underneath the chimney section. One strong magnet later, and I have it in my grubby mits!
[cue another beer....a celebratory one this time]
Thanks chaps, appreciate the input.
Still no more progress on the engine rebuild itself, but that's likely my autumn project now.