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Boy Did I Screw Up This Time!!!
Had the chain apart and zip-tied to the cam gear, would have run a new chain in last weekend, but the once I had it apart, I found that the new chain from ************** didn't have a link in it, so I had to stop, order a new link and wait for it. In the mean time....
Decided to remove the glow-plug relay to replace with one I bought at a yard that looks brand new (mine has a melted strip fuse) and being too stupid to remove the batt terminal (actually, I tried when I started the chain, but couldn't get it off and was too lazy to go down the the basement for the terminal puller), I used a screw driver to pry the conns off the relay and of course, I would short the two contacts that run the starter and ZIP, off went the drivers side of the chain into the recesses of the crankcase (along with the zip tie). The passenger side of the cut chain is still zip-tied to the cam gear and rotated around to the drivers side, can't see the drivers side of the chain, but it's probably in never-never land along with the plastic zip tie. At this point, I want to be angry with ************** for selling a chain without a link as I would have run it in and buttoned it up before this happened. That's the way in this country these days anyway, blame everyone else for your own stupidity. True that the chain would have been put in that day and I woundn't have had this problem, but the box it came in was ripped and no link and it's hard to blame anyone for that kind of thing and I should've gotten off my lazy ass and just found the terminal puller and pulled the batt term. After 30 years (or more) of working on motorcycles, cars, trucks, covered wagons (yes, I worked for a ranch for a time) even being an official rebuild mech for a Jeep dealer in Utah years back, you'd think I'd have f**kin' learned SOMETHING! Screw it. Not sure whether to part it out on ebay now (after replacing EVERY front end component, tranny conversion to 4 speed, replacing the interior, fixing all the speedo problems, fixing all the engine leaks, uncountable engine parts replaced) or just cover it and wait till summer to R&R the engine. Might go out today while I can see something other than red and get the magnets, pinchers, etc. and attempt a retrieval. Was able to do this on a Laverda 1000 that I dropped the chain in (had to break it apart to shim the cam buckets for valve adjustments), took me three days to finally get it un-kinked and back out. So, shoot it, disect it or store it???
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1984 300D Turbo - 4-speed manual conversion, mid-level resto 1983 300D - parts car 1979 300TD Auto - Parts car. 1985 300D Auto - Wrecked/Parts. ========================= "If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there". Lewis Carrol |
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