All,

I know its short notice but there are a few of us meeting for a run up in the peaks tomorrow, stopping for lunch at one of the pubs on the way.

The plan is to meet at around 9:30 at the car park of the Crewe and Harpur Pub just off the A50 nr Derby.

Directions are : Leave the A50 at Junction 3 and take the A514 towards Swarkestone. The Crewe and Harpur is about a mile down the road on the right just before you cross Swarkestone bridge.

See you then.

Andy



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And the weather looks a bit better up ther than down here

http://www.outside.co.uk/peak-district-webcam.html

Any more takers or is it just the 5 of us?

Steve, Colin, Nick and ladies, thanks for the help today.

The recovery truck arrived after about 40 mins and after a very twisty, warm, nauseating ride in the back of his cab, dropped me at home.

I started spannering immediately and have a guess at the what the fault actually was !

See attached, looks like the other two bridges are cracked as well. The head was skimmed 400 miles ago and torqued up perfectly, wtf ??????

Andy

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Hi, glad you got it back OK.
We were gutted that you did'nt make the full trip, but it was a good adventure whilst it lasted

It explains why the first 2 (3+4) plugs did.nt seem to make much difference when we tried them right at the start!

I guess the cause could be
A bad gasket
Not torqued as much as expected (innacurate wrench/dry threads)?
Block needs skimming too (unlikely)?
Compression too high?

Did you re-torque after the first 100 miles or so? might be a good plan?

All being well it should be a fairly quick job.

Perhaps see you at Donnington, else, all the best.

Col and Angie

Andy, have sent you an e-mail with some suggestions but it`s very weird how all 3 bridges have fractured. Almost as if the head wasn`t on tight enough? Maybe the bolts were bottoming out in the holes on final torque, especially if the head has been skimmed a couple of times. Dip some wire in the bolt holes and check the measurements etc.
Nick