Broken flywheel housing

I ended up putting the B-motor back together, in order to get it in to Ole-Henry, my '30 tudor. And in the middel of reassembeling it, I discovered that I have broken the motor side upper half of the flywheel housing!



























Therefore am I looking for one, which is not broken!

For now, I assembeled the engine with one from a model A, but I would like to have the right one for the B-motor.

UPDATE: After going to Bedrock, I found out, someone had heard my cry out, because suddently I was stopped by Kedde - the guy, who with his Kölner-powered '29 Tudor is responsible for getting me hooked on Model A's. And he gave me an old clutchhousing for free, because as he put it "I sold the car, so you need it more than I do"... Gotta love those generous 4banger guys!! :-D

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

I found me a Kölner!!

I finally maneged to get me a Ford Kölner G28T engine, with a G38T head, like the one I have on my B engine. It seems only to be the head, there is different on the G28T and G38T model.

I started stripping it to determine its condition and to find the crutial differences with a model A engine.
Besides what I allready knew (bigger bearings, better lubrication, sharper camshaft), I discovered it has an all aluminum oil pan! That the upper half of the fly wheel housing does not have the mountingholes for the mounting brackets between the engine and car frame. And that the rear end of the crankshaft is closed in by the oil pan, instead of having a , like the A and B/C engine.
So now I'm looking for a upper half fly wheel housing from a B engine, where the bracketmounting holes are. Otherwise I could cut the bottom half fly wheel housing off the G28T oil pan, but I think it looks good, so I try finding the B upper half.
Here are some pictures of it:
































So, for now the future holds some parts searching, and then I hope to have it ready to put in to a car next spring!

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

Another motor...

After some searching, I did manage to find me a Kölner motor.

A while back I helped the guys and good friends of mine from Pirate Kustomz at a car show in Fredericia. We were there advertizing their workshops in metal shaping, and that got me to talk to Morten, who drives a Mercury Monetery highway patrol car and has a t-shirt designing company named Rare Dog designs.
We got to talking old Fords, and he told me, his father used to own a Model A, which he sold just a few years back. I told him, I was on the lookout for a Kölner engine, and he said, that his father might have one still. Of course, I got interested, but he couldn't remember, if his dad had sold it with the car.
So I gave him my phone number, and said, if his father found it and wanted to sell it, I would be very interested in buying it. Being a old-car-guy himself, Morten knew how quick answers are easing on a car-guys soul, and therefore he got back to me the same night, confirming his father was willing to sell the engine.

His father had told him, it was an engine off an old water pump from the danish civil defence (like the US national guard). It shouldn't have run for very long, the cylinders had good compression and the engine oil was still clear.
I aranged with Morten, that we would find a suiting weekend for me to pick it up.

And so it came to be this past weekend, where my girlfriend and me were at the Gråsten Oldtimer meeting, visiting my clubmates from the Jalopies Denmark. Bringing the mob-in-law's (Svigermafiaen) car and trailer for the engine, I desided to haul my DKW motorcycle to Avnbøl, where we would sleep for the weekend, so I could ride that to the meeting.
The cruising at Gråsten Oldtimer takes place in beautiful surroundings:


Leif, a friend of mine, had just maneged to get his '61 Chevy driveable in the week just before the cruise:


Some of the clubs cars (sunday morning):



On the way back to Copenhagen, we stopped in at Mortens fathers, to pick up the motor. And there it was: a G28T block with the G38T head on it, downdraft Solex carburator, flanged exhaust manifold, special water pump and a Scintilla magneto on top. The price was good and the deal got struck! And then Mortens father said: "It's heavy!" I thought, we seemed to by three strong men, we sould be able to lift it, but no.
Being a voulenteer firefigther, the father knew a local guy, who had the time to help us load it on the trailer, so we were four men to lift it. It got tied down next to my motorcycle, and away we went for the ride home.
We stoped in at Middelfart to get something to eat, and I tried their de-luxe burger with beef tenderloin:


Well at home, I sat the engine down outside, because the wheather was nice, and this winter has been too long!



The last couple of days have been spend disasembling it, but today I got my father in law to help me make a wash tub out of an old oil drum:


Tomorrow I'll take out the old engine and start fitting the parts needed to make the G28T fit in Ole-Henry.

Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

The end of an era?

So, this weekend I went to a meeting called Trackdays, held by the danish club "Ramblers", for a little dragracing and a lot of fun! I have a very dear friend, Allan, who has build a '29 tudor from frame up, and he had asked people driving stock blocked model A's to show up for the race down the half quartermile (201 meters).
I have for some time had a suspisious mind about the condition on the engine in Ole-Henry. "But as long as he goes, we'll go!", so along we went.
The meeting it self was fine, pre '55 american plus a single Norton, racing one round in each class friday and one again saturday. It was held in a wasteyard, which led to some funny smells from time to time, but good fun in good company - and real food for dinner! Thumbs up from my stomach!
In the race we were in the stock class, along with Allan in his '29 model A, Anders in his '29 model A roadster and a girl driving her boyfriends Chevy pick-up for the first time - nice to see a girl race, we like girls like that!!! With no suprise, Allan got first over the line. But on saturday I- with a lot of help from Allan, thanx!- actually managed to tune in my engine a lot better, and in order to eliminate the centrifugal limiter in the industrial magneto, we taped it, so it wouldn't short circket the curent.
So although Anders got of to a better start, I ended up beating him by a foot! We won a race, great!... Well, not really that great, since his '29 was stock and Ole-Henry runs the Scintilla magneto and a weber carb. A classic example on a well tuned stock can beat a hoped up!
After the saturdays race, all the model A's parked side by side:





When all classes were done, we tryed to get a rematch between Allan and me, but in stead the centrifugal limiter in the Scintilla bended and broke the rotor! So there was another offering to the goddes of speed:


Wrenching a lot more on the ignition, and finally it ran great again! But idjit-me forgot to tighten the magneto bracket, so only the bolt in the head held it, which didn't last long! On a trip to Brems' shop US Pitstop with a MC from Killerbobbers, it shook loose. Back at the meeting, I discovered, the taper on the forementioned bolt was flattened, so it couldn't hold the magneto. Off with the bracket and cut down the bolt to decent taper, setting the ignition after the mark on the camshaft wheel, and then the battery died trying to start it to ajust the ignition. Bended over the front fenders, von Loco discovered, that looking at Jeppes '37 Chevy with Ole's roofline from his '49 Chev would make a great kustom bizarro!











This was pretty late saturday night, so we finally gave up and went to listen to the great band, the Green Cryptonites.
Next morning we tryed starting it with jumper cables from a 12 volt car, which made the electric fuel pump run fast, but that wasn't enough to start up Ole-Henry. I then started to adjust the ignition backwards, and with the help from the forementioned Chevy pick-up with it's owner at the stering wheel and an old rope, we towed it around the waste yard to dragstart it. On the first and second pause, I backadjusted the magneto some more, and finally got it to ignite! A fine tuning of it resulted in, that it had to be turned around 30 degrees backwards from top dead center! I therefore suspect the 2 year old drive shaft from the oil pump to be broke.
Now up and running, we made a quick round of farewells and took off. After being fueled, Ole-Henry seemed quite okay. Then, going up the Storebæltsbro (the bridge between Fyn and Sjælland), he slowed down, which I took as a sign of the side wind. But at the toll booth, the infernal noice began: "Rakadakadakadaka!" I have never heard a noice like that, and stopping in on the other side, Loco and Pfifters concluded on my behalf, that a conecting rod bearing had broke!
I then got road help to drive Ole-Henry to my garage at my in-laws, which closes a chapter in my life. I no longer have a model A, which I relatively easy can get running to the next meet! An end of an era... but the beginning of a new!
I called Allan's girlfriend, asked if she had missed me for the last six hours, and asked to talk to Allan. He thinks, I maybe, just might be, able to get it running with just another conecting rod. This starts a new chapter in the relationship between Ole-Henry and me: Besides the head gasket (which blows out every now and again), I have neer opened his engine. But that is to change!
So I got home via public transport, and now my '54 DKW two-stroke bobber has become my only motorized means of transportation!

Keep 'em kruzin - and hopefully not breaking down!

Dannerr

A loooooong way to go!

Having bought the cab some years back, I haven't wasted time thinking about the condition of it, since I knew, i didn't have the time to fix it the first couple of years. Neither have I thought much about storing it a warm and dry place, so it has just been laying in my garage next to the pigsty. Whether it is the swines or the condition I bought it in, I can't say, but the cab is in very bad shape! Mostly the rear corners is my concern, since that's the parts, I haven't found as spareparts - the lower cowl panel and door bottoms are easy to get.

I knew, the lower corners were gone and that they had some ugly welds, but haven't noticed the rust pitting through and the notches/groves and top corners is not pretty either.

But hopefully I'll learn to fix it, using the expertise and help from Tim at Piratekustomz on Amager so it'll be a fine car again soon. My plan is to see, if I can meet a deadline of attending Bedrock 17th-19th of June!

Local swapmeet findings

I like going to swapmeets! You never quite know what you could find and often you run into a good bargain!
Along with the guys from Pirate customs, I went to Græsted to the club "American Horsepower"'s Swapmeet today, hoping to find parts for the A-PU. Didn't find any Model A parts, but got a passengers side dash ornament from a 1955 chevy for dkr. 30,- (roughly $5-6), one like this: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3447/3237521249_abb298fd61.jpg
Besides that, I found a set of 3 Schmidts gauges- ampmeter, oil pressure and vaccummeter- for $9-10. The plan is to turn the ornament up side down and install the gauges in the black net, and place the stering column in the hole for the watch. And so I have a cool gauges holder!


Keep 'em kruzin - and stopping!

Dannerr

New customized Visa-card

In order to keep my mind and my money on the project, I ordered a personalized Visa-card, with a picture of the '31 PU project:

Hopefully that will help me stop wasting money on unimportant things like food and rent, and start making me concentrate on getting the pick-up on the road!