Picking over the purchase

3.     Madame e-bay came up trumps. A nice chap in Holmfirth sold me a blown 800cc Rickman motor with a spare original Rickman 700cc set of barrels. The crankcases were repaired and well tired. No crank. The 800cc barrels had a snapped liner - it looks like the rod did it ! On the up side the cyl head appears to have escaped unscathed, the 700cc bores have no wear rings at the top or any grooves, pistons even appear something like and a sexy pair of Morgo rods ohh no they have been polished over the knock.
Nothing else for it but "drum roll"

 

Brake out the emergency Triton engine spares bought and secreted away 30 years ago (i kid you not) for just such an emergency.


My lovely assistant Debbie Mc.Gee attends to Triton spares after a 30 year slumber

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