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Timstopp
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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Location: colchester, essex
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 Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 8:17 pm Post subject: Eight Series 1 smashed head |
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Hello All
I am currently restoring a series one tourer. The body work is finished, with the chrome due back next week, and so I thought time to strip the engine……
All was going well until I dropped it and smashed the water outlet on the cylinder head (indeed a large part of the head itself came off – like when as a child you smash an easter egg)
Does anyone have or know where I could get a spare head to fit my engine it has a UB prefix?????
Any advice at all will be gratefully recieved!
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: South Cheshire
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2013 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Tim
I may have one, it's on an engine in a s1 tourer that I intend to replace with an SE engine. Let me know if you have not sourced one, I have not taken it off the block, but there is not much to go wrong with them 
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Timstopp
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Dave - thanks so much for your offer, that would be great. I will PM you. I did not want to change my engine for something else really, as I have just converted to a four speed gearbox!
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Timstopp
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Roger-hatchy
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
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Location: Tiptree, Essex
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OUCH!  |
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Rosco663
Joined: 17 Dec 2012
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Location: South Australia
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| Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 2:05 am Post subject: |
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Ouch indeed 
I can imagine that a few "Magic Words" would have resonated through the workshop 
Cheers and good luck,
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Penman
Joined: 23 Nov 2007
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Location: Swindon, Wilts.
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Hi
You may have actually saved yourself some future grief by dropping it.
Look at the discolouration and corrosion where the stud goes through, compared with the fresh surface on the rest of the break, I suspect there was already a crack there anyway.
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Bob T
Joined: 16 Nov 2010
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Location: Sudbury, Suffolk
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| Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, I did put a post on your ither thread yesterday, but I am not sure if you have seen it.
Are you still looking for another head? I can probaly help you ouy and I am local (Sudbury).
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Timstopp
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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With thanks to all those who offered or offered advice I am pleased, no ecstatic to report I now have a replacement head safely tucked away courtesy of Bob who lives nearby. 
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