Bitter sweet news

My first bought B-engine is cracked:


I came up with the idea for a tool- a set of flanges, to put on the engine, in order to pressure test the water canals, to see if they were leaking, using regular fosset pressure:


On the bottom you plug in the water hose, and drain the air from the valve on the flange on the top, where the water pump used to be.
The above is for a model B head, but I even started on a set for the model A:


I guess this is a good and a bad news: the good is, that the tool works, the bad is, my engine is broken! The water flows up right next to the valve guides:


So, next step is to mount a new conecting rod in the old model A engine, get that going in the car, and find out, if this engine can be fixed.

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

DSRA opsamling

First mock up of the A/B to M40 project

Has been thinking of putting a Volvo transmission in my PU, so here is the first mock up that - sorry for the lousy pictures!

And here is one of the reason, I haven't posted in a long time. Have been working on the fourdoor and my own tudor, and here's what I saw, when I removed the valve cover.

So I'm now sure, that the head on that B-engine wasn't the only thing wrong with it - no wonder why I couldn't get it to run propperly! :-(

"New" head on an old fourdoor.

Tonight I didn't get to do anything on my own project, as Brian asked me to help him with some work on a beautiful, black '31 fourdoor.

The part-owner, a business associate of Brian, bought this beautiful fourdoor late model A with his father-in-law some years back, but didn't prepare it for winter storage, and therefore the water, and not coolant, expanded at frezzing temperature, cracking the head.

So we needed to install a new head, so it can get ready for a wedding at the 10th of December.

I immediately spotted, that it was a “C” head with the three bolt water pump, and saw to my delight, this beautiful car was equipped with a G28T motor, modified to fit the model A.

And again, this one has also had the full aluminum oil pan cut to fit a model A front bell housing – I cannot grasp, why people are doing this, instead of using the model B bell housing and gearbox.

Brian found an old G28T head in the storage, but it was in pretty bad shape, so he welded the corner of the cast iron head with the tig welder.

We lay a modern gasket under it, and as Brian was putting the head on, I had to leave in order to get home with the last train-bus connection.

I haven't heard from him, so I guess, it started up perfect and that it's not leaking.

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

More cut'n'weld

Yesterday I finished a number plate for a friend and fellow Copenhagen Custom Cruiser, Søren, for his café racer inspired stretch bicycle project. He wanted a plate on his front fork, where headlight normally goes, to keep the style of café racer, so I started working on an oval sign, similar to the old enamel DK-signs, when we were at the exibition at the Bella center, and finished it yesterday.

After that, I got about half an hour's work done, so I did some more "cut, bend and weld"-job on the back brace.

Barrels of fun, and the back starts to get some shape

With the show coming up next weekend, preperations has to be made – and this year’s decoration will consist of oil barrels – lots of oil barrels! So last night went by with planning and the painting of Pirate Kustomz logo on the side of them.



Ole gik på tønden! (A Danish expression for going to the little house.)

After the paint job, I got barely an hour’s work done, but I got started on the inner frame for the back, based on the shape on the wooden back brace. A pure cut, slice and weld job!

Next week we’ll be hauling barrels to Bella, and the week after usually goes with unpacking after the show, so it’ll properbly be a couple of weeks, before I’m back and working on the back.

Tape and wood

My iPhone broke! For the first time in the 2 years and 7 months, and after the last drop on concrete, and  the charging plug in is loose, so it will not charge. I must say, that iPhone has impressed me - been dropped on the floor/ground/table/garage floor/ asphalt a couple of dosin times, been dropped in a tub of engine cooling fluid and been run over by my Tudor, but it kept on going! I'll miss you, old friend... So I'm now without my smartphone, but I'll try to keep posting (almost!) weekly, so bare over with me, if the picture quality drops or it takes several days before the post is up.

This week I stumbled upon an old enamel sign in the shop, stating "Use the mat" - my thoughts went elesewhere, as the mat is slang for the hairy area above a woman's privates...


After going around the shop, laughing for my self about the sign, I got to work. With some help from Oliver and Mads "the mini munk, the body came back on the subframe, and I started mocking up the body-to-be with wooden parts and tape.
I cut up some old pipes from a bicycle frame, so the doors could be aligned.


Jag-Per came by in hos Ford (k)A (if he'd just remove the k from his trunk lid, that gas-saver would be sooo much kuuler!), and found the windshield deco funny.





Next week - trying to get some shape to the back, the B-post mocked up, and possibly weld the rear "legs" in pace.

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr