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Overhaul of WEBER #2 (The original blog was written on 26th Aug. 2007)

Yesterday, the removal of the WEBER was interrupted by the sticking nuts.


 Today morning, I went to the DIY hardware store near my house thinking how I could remove the WEBER.
When I arrived at the store, “junk tool sale” was held at the store timely.  I got the combination wrench set with the special price 498JPY (about $4.5).  It seemed thinner and better than what I had used.  And I also got the disc grinder to make the special tool from my old tools because I thought I would struggle to loosen the nuts.

 However, contrary to my expectation, I could loosen the nuts easily by new 498JPY combination wrench.  Great!  There was no turn for the disc grinder I bought…okay I wanted it before.  So, I could remove the WEBER finally.

After the removal I found that different size of nuts were used.  2 pieces of 12mm nuts and 2 pieces of 13mm nuts were used in the WEBER for #1 and #2 cylinders.  And all 12mm nuts were used for the other WEBER.  Moreover, some nuts had washers, some had spring washers, some had nothing…it was very random.  I supposed that the previous owner or shop changed some nuts from 13mm to 12mm because of the work space when they removed the WEBER.  Why didn’t they change all nuts to 12mm!  But I was too insensitive because I drove more than 10 years without knowing it!


 The type of the WEBER was 40 DCOE 32.
Wow, very dirty WEBER!  I had to clean.  But this day was up to here.  

I cleaned the engine room little bit, but it was still dirty too.
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