Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

Doing bit of catch up updating the blog as I have been busy
this week and will be busy over the weekend as well.





Later spec PCB-305 version LMA on the left and old A02 design
that came out from this engine on the right.



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Updated 07-09-2013 at 09:42 PM by Kaz-kzukNA1

Tags: lma, rocker arm, rocker shaft

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

Checked the smooth movement of each rocker arms before
removing the rocker shaft.

As you can see, none of the primary and secondary arms should move
when the mid one was pressed/released.

May not be able to feel it from this video but as reported earlier,
all of the LMA were getting soft and some of them were much
weaker than the others.



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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

Same process for the rear bank.

Cleaning process done, new LMA (from SoS) installed,
rocker arms back in place and ready for the
cam shaft installation.
Torqued the sealing bolt for the rocker shaft
with new washer.








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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

Back to working on this engine again.
As I didn’t work on any mechanical parts for
a few days, my finger sense won’t be up to the
level for any processes requiring the delicate touch
so decided to just clean the internal engine parts
for the day.








Full of old oil contaminated ...

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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA

Couldn’t take lots of photos while my hands were covered in oil
dealing with lots of rocker arms, etc so just the end result.







All four cam shafts removed, holder plate and cam holders are
now soaked in the cleaning solution.

Will inspect the cam shaft in detail later.
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Eng Refresh Stage 1 + LMA