

This is an easy way of remembering the stroke order. > thing is confusing me as cylinder one fires should the piston be up? > the HT leads need to come out of the 7 o clock position. > Just fitted the blocks now and to get 1 firing in order as you say Just bought the Haynes engine - any tips? - swiss tony I really should make things more often, it feels like I am getting something back from my later childhood years. It reminds me about ten years ago before I discovered boozing the internet wasn't much good, I would spend all my spare time building silly electrical circuits using breadboards.

The most important thing is its jolly good fun :). I would say a ten year old would really struggle without help as they probably would not have the patience or concentration required. Argos sell it as a mens gift, where the packaging suggests 10+. I am finding it easy but I am taking my time on it as I want to get it right first time. It would have 100 words describing something when it can only go one way anyway. I couldn't find two parts where the valve rests on and I find the instructions a little bit too wordy, the start the obvious a bit too much which then confuses me. It works a treat, just spent the last 45 minutes some how assemblying the cylinder head. I have got the crankshaft connected to the pistons and the conrods, all in the lower crank case. Probably spent two hours in between working on it now. Just bought the Haynes engine - any tips? - RattleandSmoke Of course there are the ‘lights, which speak for themselves!Īnd when you’ve finished your basic car mechanics introductory lesson, you can pop it in the oven and roast it, which would be that great crematorium in the sky for cars! This is the manifold, downpipe and silencers. Further along you will find the intestine, which leads to the bowel and of course the Ducks backside. There is the heart within the ribcage which surely has to be the pistons encased in the block, The kidneys are the water pump and cooling system and the liver has to be the CAT.

You will then find the lungs which of course are the carburettor mixing air and fuel. What you have will bear a remarkable resemblance to the workings of an engine.įrom the top, you will have cut of the head and neck which would be the petrol tank Just bought the Haynes engine - any tips? - PatĪll you need to do rattle is get a recently killed chicken, pluck it and then draw it, all on to a neatly laid out piece of newspaper.
