Re: Someone hooked the battery up backwards / new member 55 Clipper Deluxe
Posted by humanpotatohybrid On 2021/12/10 17:54:08
Update: It's got a window!
The engine in it is still locked up. I don't know the history of the car that well except that the inspection sticker is '94 and the mileage is 93k. So I don't know if it's frozen from a mechanical issue or just from disuse. When I bought it it had full black oil with no signs of contaminants.
A month or so ago I sprayed a bunch of PB Blaster into each cylinder, and later filled each cylinder with Diesel fuel. Of course, two of the cylinders didn't take much and being a V8 they surely weren't coated all the way. However the oil level has risen about the distance from E to F (it started at F and now it is far above F) so clearly a lot or all of the Diesel has seeped past the piston rings.
I've heard of people cranking on the fan pulley bolt with an impact driver but I don't want to do that for fear of damaging something. As Howard mentioned, even a turning engine can have some pushrod-bending stuck valves hidden inside. I'm thinking of taking off a cylinder head to see if the pistons and cylinders even look okay. On that note, does anyone know what the "cylinder head lifter J-4159" does? (Page 20 here, last paragraph.) I mean it's obviously to lift the head, but how does it do that and can I remove the head without a tool like it? Or use a different tool instead?
P.S. The most keen of eyes will notice in this picture that the trim on the sides of the back window is from a '53, not '55. To be honest, the studs on mine snapped from rust (and I don't want to JB Weld new ones on right now) so I used some 53's that Ross was kind enough to give me.
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The engine in it is still locked up. I don't know the history of the car that well except that the inspection sticker is '94 and the mileage is 93k. So I don't know if it's frozen from a mechanical issue or just from disuse. When I bought it it had full black oil with no signs of contaminants.
A month or so ago I sprayed a bunch of PB Blaster into each cylinder, and later filled each cylinder with Diesel fuel. Of course, two of the cylinders didn't take much and being a V8 they surely weren't coated all the way. However the oil level has risen about the distance from E to F (it started at F and now it is far above F) so clearly a lot or all of the Diesel has seeped past the piston rings.
I've heard of people cranking on the fan pulley bolt with an impact driver but I don't want to do that for fear of damaging something. As Howard mentioned, even a turning engine can have some pushrod-bending stuck valves hidden inside. I'm thinking of taking off a cylinder head to see if the pistons and cylinders even look okay. On that note, does anyone know what the "cylinder head lifter J-4159" does? (Page 20 here, last paragraph.) I mean it's obviously to lift the head, but how does it do that and can I remove the head without a tool like it? Or use a different tool instead?
P.S. The most keen of eyes will notice in this picture that the trim on the sides of the back window is from a '53, not '55. To be honest, the studs on mine snapped from rust (and I don't want to JB Weld new ones on right now) so I used some 53's that Ross was kind enough to give me.
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