Tag: tear down

I spent many hours trying to bathe the case halves and free up as much crud as possible.  I was shocked at how much accumulated age and filth washed off and out of the case halves. I finally had to turn my attention to the parts that had not easily come off, namely the corroded…

Along with the general other poor maintenance and total lack of engine cleanliness below deck, the oil pump plate ended up being a bit of a pain in the ass to remove. You can tell how filthy it was (above), but a lot of that is corrosion. I eventually managed to get it removed without…

As I mentioned in the previous entry, getting the tins off was difficult due to the age and lack of care. However, while I new the engine components were tired, I didn’t expect the tear down of the long block to be so difficult. While there appeared to be a massive oil leak at the…

  The tin remove was a horrible affair. I was trying to be careful and meticulous but the decades of heat + grime + previous owner negligence made some of the safe removal all but impossible. The heat exchanger tin screws to the case would not budge at all. It was like they had become…

Dropping the engine was almost a 1 person affair. I decided to call in Matt to help guide the engine down while I was under the transmission guiding it from there. (Oh for those people with lifts who just disconnect the bolts and nuts, pull a bit, and then lift the car up and off…

The decision to finally drop the 74’s engine and begin tearing it down for rebuild was slow in coming, but to some degree actually started on August 16, 2018 when I started having some of the issues with it failing to run. This started out of nowhere, as it started reliably throughout 2017 and most…