It took me a whole day to come to your conclusion and I agree totally now.My attempt of making a tool didnt go so well I just could'nt get it to bite enough to crack the factory + time torque setting if I kept going it was more likley to damage something most likley my knuckles, I have done that enough to know when it is coming now.In the past 3 weeks I have some how managed to end up with 17 mowers to fix blushso far I have revived 3,so when funds allow I might as well fork out for the proper tools.
I have managed to clean it up ok so I will do like you say.A bit like shutting the gate after the bulls bolted,but we all got to learn the hard way hey.I will get back to it tommorrow and see if I can get It fired up.I did notice from another post that It was a chinese block I did'nt know of such a thing (nasty trickery).They say you learn something new everyday,today I learnt plenty so I can go to sleep tonight knowing I dont have to learn anything new for at least a week.