All the wrong notes...

So a quick look at the Piano again this afternoon has produced little as a result... in fact there wasn't any compression in the cylinder (so no wonder why it wouldn't start). Now to strip it all down and get the head off...

Which means that the Injector, Air Filter, Exhaust, Rocker Cover, Rocker Arm Assemblies and Push Rods all had to come out... A little bit of ingenuity and common sense (combined with a lot of brute force and ignorance) managed to get it all apart.

I was surprised as there isn't a head gasket - it's just a taper fit (which of course thinking about means that it is self sealing), but looking at the valve seats - they were both well sooted up and a wipe with a paraffin rag revealed pitting in the valve seats.

I called it a day at this point as the only way forward was to get the cylinder head on the bench and give it a proper look over and plus I had some other things to get on with too!