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Well, I'm down to two shops now from 3, but I'll bet that one stop does all shop isn't there any more either. Most of them in KC are simply gone,...
Took all the crank, rods, pistons, new flywheel, clutch and front pulley up to the crank guy to be balanced. It's funny, every shop I go to says...
This is why when doing an overhaul you always remove the oil pressure galley plugs.....this is the oil pressure relief plunger - it's scarred so...
Today I got the second coat of paint on the Inno block, looks pretty shiny now! I had missed more than a few spots up under the bosses so this...
The block came back from the machine shop today, it was painted a very strange shade of green....certainly not BMC green nor any factory color...
To heck with all these engine problems, I've got a better idea...... [ATTACH]
Engine parts are all ordered, block and head will be done by Friday. Found the block has been bored to 1380 - the max you can go with this block!...
Musta been tired and not thinking, or breathed in too many solvent fumes...... [IMG] There is no need to grind this crank, I'll just use the rods...
Here is the crank out of the spare engine, it will have to have the rod journals machined down from 1.750 to 1.625, but other than that it's in...
Parts are readily available, depending on the model. The Cooper S was only made till 71, and some parts - like the crank - are available but...
Houston, we no longer have a problem! I had a spare engine lying under the workbench, so I tore it down this afternoon - amazingly, it has the...
I have another engine I may tear down today to se if it has anything I can use.
More crankshaft woes..... The "new" crank I got was cracked. The crank guy said it had been machined 10 under on the mains, and when they did...
Not much to report today.....just spending hours and hours disassembling, cleaning, scraping old gaskets off, more cleaning, priming, painting...
While the block, head and crank are out to be machined, I decided to go ahead and tear down the transmission too. The gears look fine (which is a...
I've seen this crap on a lot of English builds....at least I'm assuming it's an English build. Buzz had a supposedly fresh engine, but when I...
Crankshaft woes...… The crank expert said it was fixable....sort of. The place that was bad was under where the primary gear rides, so the plan...
Latest Uh-Oh.....looks like the crank has a crack in it, taking it to a crankshaft place tomorrow to see what's up.....[ATTACH]
One interesting thing, when I turned the engine over to see the internals, I found nylocks on the rod bolts! I thought some bodger had done those,...
Hmmm.....I may be changing my mind on tearing down the engine.....even tho it has good compression and oil pressure, I didn't run it long enough...