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    May 16, 2017 5 minutes
    Words and pics: Tim Britton

    One of the things about a rebuild is it’s easy to forget stuff, obviously the faster a project is completed the better it is and the less chance for the ‘now, where does that bit go…?’ scenario to arise. In a perfect world everything would be available and we’d all have time to devote to our project and when we went to various service providers we would be first in line. Does anyone live in such a world? I know I don’t and while the suppliers and helpers involved in this project have been brilliant, they’re not at our beck and call and if there’s a hiccup at our end it delays things at the other.

    One such hiccup was in the carburettor, which has a few clips and springs in various places, very small springs

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