Hi,

I'm having a big clear out and so have a load of small port engine parts for sale.

They are all on ebay:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/cbv82008/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=

Cheers

It's all back together now with a standard thickness gasket and unsurprisingly the noise has stopped. I measured the deck height to the edge of the piston crown and it was 0.45mm. here is a picture of the cylinder head: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v174/spooked/13eac634-7814-458e-8b2f-249695b34...

will do - I'll measure it all up when I get it back together tonight.

cheers,

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