More progress

I am now waiting for parts to arrive so to pass the time I thought I would clean the carburettor. I was hoping to make it last the morning but it was a 30 minute job and as it happened the thing was pretty clean anyway. Then Lee turned up with all the missing parts and a bonus bag for the front forks. Later in the day I polished up the chrome work that just arrived and it came up like new so although I didn't acheive much it feels like a good day.

One very clean carburettor.

I like these specialist forum groups and when I restored the golf cart I picked up a lot of useful information. It turns out that there is a forum just for the Savage so I joined, read a lot of good stuff, including how to cure the "Savage oil weep" and then asked the question as to what damage would occur if the engine was run low on oil. Two guys predicted that the rocker arms would be destroyed and now I have them, they really are.




It is kind of hard to see but those cam lobes should be convex and they ae worn to concave.

All in all it is kind of good news as the parts are fairly cheap $62 each and it is good to find something wrong. Of course if I am wrong about the bottom end being good then the engine will be back in the frame, started up and pulled right out again to my deep shame.


So I ordered the parts locally today including a piston and rings (and by the way am I alone in thinking the piston should come with a wrist pin and circlips? It doesn't). The spend was $285.49 which makes a running total of $398.97.


I know that there will be some other expenses and I am already thinking of a battery and a rear tire but I quietly confident that I can bring this project home for less than $1000. We will see.