Saving Old Seagulls

In the early 70's i worked in Australia for a while and remember at a safari park lion enclosure, a notice saying to stay in the vehicle and some wise guy had put another notice saying except for Pommies who must ride bicycles. I can only imagine that Australia is full because of the great Australia ...

I have obtained a WSPCL head 1973, from the local free ads, am I right in interpreting John's writeup in concluding that it will fit OK?

Thanks

Hi again, On ebay -spark plug repair you will see some kits and they are a lot cheaper than that. One of them is some form of cement (permatex i think). I find it odd that an engine of this background should have a metric measurement spark plug. Yes I know where you are coming from regards the swarf ...

Andrew

Are you talking about a cylinder head with damaged spark plug threads?

Your right, the thread size is 18mm.

If it's damaged threads your talking about, & the thread will not retaing the sparkplug properly, a 18mm sparkplug helicoil will have to be fitted.

In the UK this could cost you  ...

I have recently aquired a silver century. The spark plug is an NGK Ab6 which I think is 18mm. However the spark plug port could do with repair. I was thinking of in situ. Any advice and where i can buy a reasonably priced repair kit? Andy