Subject: Emotional Outburst

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Peter, I hope you'll allow your wonderful forum to be used for psychotherapy. I've just passed an entire day trying to make an oil-tight joint where the feed pipe enters the exhaust rocker gallery and I'm just about gibbering. Can anyone tell me why the 2 Litre was designed as it is ? It has to be simple sadism. I first noticed it with the clutch, where removal would be far simpler were the chassis cross member to be just 1 cm further back. Then the water pump - to change one takes five gentle minutes on any other engine I know but here takes hours of persuasion and occasional brutality. Now this **** joint, where fixing would be trivial were the casting over the magneto drive to be any other shape than it is.

Maybe it's supposed to be character building.

Thanks Peter, I feel better now.

John