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Attached and to follow are some images of the gearbox and clutch. I don't think anything is amiss but please correct me if I'm wrong.

The fork looks straight to me - straight edges for reference.

whilst there's a drip and a little wetness on the fork, the bearing is virtually dry as is the main shaft - just a thin black dryish film.

The gearbox front cover and seal als...

Marked seasonal peaks, clearly weather dependant.
Thats what you get with climate change.

Looks like the water taxi business really started to boom in 2020.
You'd think it coincided with a major political decision taken then.

" Iran 'threatened Trump with sleeper-cell revenge terrorist attacks inside US' days before nuclear strikes ---

Trump received a communiqué from the regime just days before he ordered US military strikes on its nuclear facilities, sources told NBC News.

The official message was delivered to Trump through an intermediary at the G7 summit in Canada last week.

The presiden...

Andrew Neil.

" --- America and Israel are agreed that now is the time to keep up the pressure on a regime responsible for so much misery – an alliance buoyed by the better prospects its demise would bring for Israel, America, the Sunni Arabs in the Gulf and, above all, the Iranian people.

It's certainly a more worthy goal than the usual hand-wringing, vacuous calls for 'de-esca...

Big shock globally if they do close the Straits of Hormuz. But **so far** only a threat.

Will markets fall today as a result?

How far?

FTSE 100 future at 07:50.

10 minutes before open.

https://www.ig.com/uk/indices/markets-indices/ftse-100

As I recall, the 1500 has 2 manifold nuts very awkward to get at? Thiugh that could have been something different alltogether!
I have never found the A series ones particularly awkward though as others have said, it does help to have an appropriate spanner which may involve a little work to make a 'special'. I have a cut in half spanner though I cannot always find it when needed.
I find i...

My understanding too Guy, as I mentioned in very different words. You expressed it more clearly than I.
AFAIK the extra length of the nuts is partly at least to compensate for the material being softer than steel so the length provides additional thread engagement to spread the torque load.
But I still don't know how much harder they are to access than those on the 1500 manifold.
Th...

I always understood that the idea of the brass nuts is that as the steel studs heat up, expand and elongate, the brass would expand more and extend axially to maintain the clamping pressure onto the manifold gasket.

I dont think the US is finished bombing yet as they have moved significant quantities of various aircraft into the vicinity plus of course the B2s can fly right round the world non stop if they want to.

What did surprise me was that they moved some of their aircraft from their base at Aviano in Italy. I would have thought they would have stayed because of Ukraine.

Trev