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How clean is your top end cylinder head cover ?

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Re: How clean is your top end cylinder head cover ?

Post by bmdubya1198 »

Hey, that's cheating! Unless the new official MVS recommendation is to disassemble your engine every year for internal cleaning...
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foggydogg wrote: ↑29 Dec 2021, 17:34 Uhmm...
Is that the car that just spent eleven months in various stages of disassembled ?
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it was 10 months


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My recently acquired questionable service history 850 T5 doesn't look nearly that good.. It almost looks like the previous owner poked around with a screwdriver given the scratches on the right.
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The second most common use of a screw driver - poking at things. Third most common use is a dull chisel.
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volvolugnut wrote: ↑03 Jan 2022, 12:16 The second most common use of a screw driver - poking at things. Third most common use is a dull chisel.
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Wait, that's #2?

What's #1???
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erikv11 wrote: ↑03 Jan 2022, 12:19
volvolugnut wrote: ↑03 Jan 2022, 12:16 The second most common use of a screw driver - poking at things. Third most common use is a dull chisel.
volvolugnut
Wait, that's #2?

What's #1???
#1 Loose engagement with a screw and applying minimal torque. Until it slips and 1) pokes your body or 2) scratches your stuff.
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