Rockers ready to go

After spending £432 on the car yesterday, today has thankfully been a bit less eventful. When Steve came round last weekend, I showed him the rocker assembly (the bit on top of the cylinderhead, for my American readers) and it was deemed to be reusable but required some re-finishing to the bottoms of the rockers themselves so that you can get an accurate setting with a feeler guage because it's actually resting on the surface between the rocker and valve, not on the ridges either side.

I set up shop on the dining room table again (the venue for rebuilding the carbs last Saturday) and sorted the problem out. Here are the before and after pics:



I forgot to take a proper 'before' photo but you can see the four on the right-hand side have visible wear marks on them.





The job nearly finished - each rocker is now smooth to the touch and they have very little in the way of visible wear. A couple may have a very slight mark on the surface but I think they're good enough.