Two Wheels Better

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Circa, 1984. My 1976 FIAT 128 1.3 was not a non-interference engine! My then-wife rang me from the mall parking lot saying when she cranked the engine over it kind of loped and made a funny metallic crunching noise. She'd tried to start it a few times. Could I come and try it?
The timing belt had shredded. I worked in an auto parts shop attached to a metric repair shop called Toad's Kin Car Company & International Auto Parts of Florence (Fastidious Vehicular Therapeutics was their slogan). On the Saturday after work me and Skip, one of the techs, took four hours to do a full valve job (five of eight valves bent) and timing belt replacement. None of the pistons were 'holed'.
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1970 R60/5, '77 R75/7-R100, '85 K100, '87 K75C, '87 K100RS, '93 K11-K12 Big Block, '93 K1100RS, '95 R100-Mystic, '96 K1100RS, '98 K1200RS, '00 K1200RS, '02 K1200RS, '03 K1200GT, '04 R1150R, '04 R1150RT, '05 K1200S, '06 K1200R, '07 K1200R, '09 K1300GT, 2013 R1200RT-P & 2022 S1000XR
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