This weekend we lost a friend of backwoods motorsports Don Hart Sr passed away from lung cancer. I have known Don for the better part of 10 years and worked on his race cars that his sons drive for a season. Although I wouldnt say we were "close" friends I will say that no matter what if he seen me he said hi. Every Friday night at I-88 speedway I would go down to the Hart pits to talk to Don because he always had something to say, he taught me alot about the sport I love in his own way.
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The other night I was changing the front gear and discovered an oil leak so I started cleaning the side of the engine off to see where it was leaking and discovered it was around the clutch shaft. After taking the shaft out I could see that the hole was egged out probably when the previous owner broke a chain. After searching the internet and talking to Doug for a fix I took a q-tip and some break clean and cleaned the hole really good and used another to put some rtv gasket maker and ran a bit around the inside of the hole hopefully sealing it. If not Doug is sending me a new seal which I can hopefully make work, if all that doesnt work I will either have to take this engine back and have it fixed or get a whole new engine... So yeah it hasnt been a very good weekend!
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