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Definitely says “sent” , would have expected you to have received an email Notification. Try clicking on your username or avatar, activity and then contact, messages or notification or something similar.

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Cheers for the info. Struggling a bit with the PM thing ?

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Yes, 25th, October 1982.
80200- 80299, 1619-1891
These are the part numbers but I don’t know about availability for all of them.
Chrome rings, std for worn bores within spec in the manual. 297201
STD rings 294232- available.
+10 oversize 294224
+20 294225
+30 294226
If I can work out how to send a private message, I will give you some info that may be useful.
Edit . Message sent

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Model : 80201
Type : 1633-01
Code : 82102501

Also going by the model number was the date of manufacture 1982 ?

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To give an accurate and informed answer we need the Model, Type and Code numbers from the engine. Usually stamped into the blower housing / cowling.

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I’d be tempted by those Greyhound plough stickers Geoff, if I ever get to that degree of finish on the Trusty equipments I have! Is it a set of stickers, one on both sides of the headstock, or just the one? Also, are the stickers set for the tractor still available? It would make sense to get the lot when we’re at it? I’ll keep an eye on progress.

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Good morning. Got engine off now secured by several bolts to clutch housing also got the cylinder head off now. Piston seized to cylinder liner might take the route of breaking it for spares now.
if parts are mechanically sound.
regards Scooby.

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Should any of you wish to view the whole process of torturing the Simar back into life, here’s an extended cut of the video:

Simar start up long video

I know easy start is naughty, but used as a diagnostic tool it has it’s place… The issue which necessitated it’s usage was a vacuum leak between the choke butterfly and the carb, meaning the engine couldn’t be effectively choked. I have now rectified this!

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Well I don’t think I should be encountering any tree roots, fingers crossed!

Does the gearbox in the middle of the miller unit share oil with the main gearbox or is it filled separately?

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Is there much to choose between the “wire” type tines and the “slasher” ones?

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This is the ground it is going to be cultivating, marshland, but actually fairly dry in the top layers!

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Hortiman that is very generous indeed, I have sent you a PM!

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A few pictures for the record

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A drawing for the exhaust would be great! Shall I PM you an email address?

Of course that would have been a much more sensible course of action, even better would have been to just press the stop button on the Wico mag, but alas all these sensible thoughts go out the window when one is fearing for the life of the engine!

I’ve stripped the hubs to cure the very stiff/seized drive pins, all back in one piece now, just waiting on some parts to make a throttle cable and it’ll be time to see how it turns the soil!

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Charlie, actually very little the end, I resorted to robbing the Wico mag from Roland the headless 35, until such a time as I can afford to have the old Lucas properly rebuilt. Aside from that, the usual rigmarole, carb strip and clean, filled the gearbox with oil and away she went! That exhaust pipe is frantically loud, the video does it no justice. I assume it ought to have the normal flattened style?

Ted, painful indeed, my Jerry rigged throttle cable, borrowed from a Seagull outboard motor jammed and I had to get it stopped in a hurry. You can see when I caught a real belt off the HT lead by the way the pliers go on the floor!

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