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Title: Rebuild: Plate advice
Post by: leon on March 13, 2009, 07:38:34 PM

Hi Guys, I\'m after a little advice on the side plates. I have a few areas that look like:
(http://leonharland.com/rx7/this.jpg)
Are these areas terminal to the engine, i could not find a single jacket that had broken through. i attacked all of them with a screw driver too!

I\'ve been over the plates with a ally bar that has a straight edge tolerance of 1 thou, with feeler gauges at 1.5 thou and could not find any warpage other than a slight \'sag\' in the middle of one of the plates.

Title: Rebuild: Plate advice
Post by: RobbieRX-7 on March 13, 2009, 08:12:26 PM

I personally would reuse them

Title: Rebuild: Plate advice
Post by: hairyhoover on March 13, 2009, 08:44:47 PM

just cut a bridge and weld it up ;)

Title: Rebuild: Plate advice
Post by: leon on March 13, 2009, 09:03:23 PM

Quote from: hairyhoover;590924just cut a bridge and weld it up ;)

Boo to you mister! dont give me ideas :Giggle

Title: Rebuild: Plate advice
Post by: kiwiracer on March 13, 2009, 10:00:52 PM

no problem to reuse them plates fella,they are still sweet for a few years

Title: Rebuild: Plate advice
Post by: HaywardRotary on March 13, 2009, 10:50:34 PM

A view that is more from the side as opposed to directly ontop would be helpful,but they don\'t look to bad.
Regards
Carl

Title: Rebuild: Plate advice
Post by: leon on March 13, 2009, 11:00:52 PM

Fantastic! This kind of wear is quite normal on the engines?

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