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Bob Grimstead Unregistered	Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:26 AM A couple of posts ago — well, in 2011 as it turns out — I was complaining about excessive internal friction in my Aussie RF4D's engine. https://sbeaver.com/cgi-bin/fournier/cutecast.pl?session=G4pvyCSSPe3vvHrsfZbIERHPgP&forum=13&thread=748 We solved that problem. But last year (2023) I started noticing Wagon's engine was tightening up when it got hot. I've recounted this story four times now, so to save me a bit of effort, here's one of the published versions... --------------------
Bob Grimstead Unregistered	Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:30 AM --------------------
Bob Grimstead Unregistered	Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:35 AM This is my mate Tad Dippel's dramatic photo of me scraping across the fence (smokes still going of course). ...and there's a fin-cam clip here... https://youtu.be/paV9pzs5Hkk?si=jc04VUtMJA4NELkd --------------------
Bob Grimstead Unregistered	Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:41 AM So here's my engine, superbly rebuilt by VW guru and Tipsy Nipper aerobatics ace, Tony Spooner in just 25 days... but plus a component that would have caused at the least a substantial power loss, if not complete failure. It's a cam follower that has cracked, broken up, and started trepanning its way through its pushrod. [Edit by Bob Grimstead on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 10:45 AM] --------------------

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