Another night in the garage

Yesterday I went to the garage- I had remembered some old headlights, I bought at a swap meet, so I desided to try one of them on.




















And when it started getting dark, the moon came out again.



Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

Old tool put to new use

Yesterday I managed to take the new engine for my tudor apart. In order to take out the valves, I had to modify an old swap finding, a valve spring compressor:





I knew, I had a thing, that looked like the tool to push out the valve guides, but it was wrong, so I slided the first one out, and used it as the tool instead.





Using the modified spring compressor to compress spring:


Removal of  spring retainer:





With fingers, I pulled spring clear of push rod and twisted spring past push rod:


My fingers couldn't bend the spring, so I rotated spring off of valve steam.


As mentioned, I used one valve guide half to push other valve guide half's loose. I would have had to find a proper tool, if valve guide's were stuck! Luckily, these weren't.





I then pulled one half off - and used the option of dropping the other half in the old oil!


Then I was able to pull out the spring, and be proud, that I didn't break anything... this time!


Engine completely torn down:





Empty block (except bolts):


Pressure plates applied, fosset on head open for letting air out, open water supply:


Then I made sure, the block is not cracked:











Meanwhile the clock had turned ten, and I returned to workshop to discover, it was night:




Got home, got to bed - was tiered, but proud!

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

Another A in the Tudor

So, after a lot of troubles with water in the oil, I finally concluded, the block of my first B engine was cracked - see earlier blogpost.
Therfore I've decided to put an A motor in the Tudor, as I have to sell it to raise money to a downpayment on my future house, and the other B I will keep to put in my project. Hence it's no longer a B, I will post updates on the A engine on Dannerrs blog, where I will go through the engine.
Below are some pictures of the begining of the tear down:





First cylinders conecting rod:





Second cylinders conecting rod:





Third cylinders conecting rod:





Fourth cylinders conecting rod:





I'll post here again, when B related topics araise.


Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

An other patient on the table

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

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! :-(