Re: The 1951 Patrician of Jim L. in OR

Posted by Jim L. in OR On 2015/5/16 21:13:12

As far as the engine it's self goes, I've been carefully turning it through it's four cycles by hand regularly with no signs of problems. Also, even better, the valves are all opening and closing as per design and the valves themselves have no wobble or tilt in the cycle and when open there is no side to side movement which I hope means that the guides are still in good shape.

Next comes the opening of the valve cover for a look at the lifters. While I don't see any problems as per above, I still want to give them a good cleaning as well as the area while things are wide open. I'm also going to take a good look at the timing chain plus with all the oil on the outside of the engine, I think I've got some seals that need some attention.

After that, I'll order gaskets along with fuel pump and carb kits.

One thing the clean(er) engine shows is that the grey for the head is wrong in both color and gloss. There are large sections of the block still wearing the original color so while I knew the gloss was wrong, I'm glad to have the correct color to compare things to.

After the engine comes cleaning the exposed frame, steering and suspension, replacing the front end bushings plus the swapping in of the Power Steering Assembly. Once that's done I'll re-attach the front sheet metal while installing the wiring harness. With the car largely back together, I can have a good chunk of my garage back plus room to work on the interior pieces..

More later -