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One "modern cleaner" you can use is Lemon Pledge. Safe and cleans well, leaves a protective coating.
Leave the valve adjuster access ports on the side of the rocker boxes alone. You can't accurately adjust the valves of a used engine with feeler guages, anyway, so just don't mess with them, and you won't strip them. If they're leaking, remove them....carefully....clean, and reinstall with locktight. Then just forget about them.
John Healy at Coventry Spares used to make an alloy replacement which was far better, but I imagine the market dried up pretty quickly for that item.
Oh, and the exhaust spigot? Clean the adaptor and the head, squeeze in some silicone RTV and thread the adaptor back in. Remove the excess and allow to cure for a couple of days. Reinstall the exhaust with ALL the brackets. You may have to shim or bend and fiddle with the front L brackets to get an easy fit, but it's worth the hassle. Nope, you don't even need to use "high temp" RTV.....the regular cheapo bathtub seal works just fine.
When you reinstall your bars, be aware that the rubber mounting parts are very specific and need to be installed in order and the right way around....in particular, the top washer must be fitted with the flat side up and the tapered side down, against the rubber. There is a relief cut into the washer that keeps from pointloading the junction on the P clamp to keep it from fracturing. THAT would be exciting.
[ This message was edited by: Mecchanica on 2006-10-04 10:13 ]
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