My ebay engine

[Craigorypeck]

Peter, I have what looks like the exact same marking on mine!?!

[Peter-S]

Bit more cleaning up on the head.
Valves about done and waiting



Cleaned up the manifold faces and added a little insert colour courtesy of some bbq paint in the cupboard



Cleaned up the rocker gasket mating face



Removed the cam seal



and fitted a Ford replacement



Also cleaned up the cam belt tensioner

[STOCK...tm]

i have seen the 'punch' mark on a few heads now...on ones that could possibly be unleaded due to age...... my theory is that if an unleaded head is recon properly then all mating faces will be skimmed for trueness.... the unleaded stamp can be really faint meaning it will be machined away with the lightest pass of a surface grinder.... maybe these heads had the punch mark to 'mark' them??

[Peter-S]

A bit more cosmetic progress.

Lifting brackets were suitably cruddy



but cleaned up reasonably well



Cleaned the sump bolts and gave them a coat of lacquer. Probably won't last but ...



Started to clean the washers too



Rocker box wasn't too impressive



Took the wire brush and drill to it then gave it some rust treatment



Won't win any prizes but hasn't come up too badly

[jimmyted]

This thread is brilliant Peter! I've been keeping an eye on it and can't believe the before - after difference. What tools/chemicals have you been using to clean everything up? I've heard those wire brush drill attachment jobbies are pretty good..

[Peter-S]

This thread is brilliant Peter! I've been keeping an eye on it and can't believe the before - after difference. What tools/chemicals have you been using to clean everything up? I've heard those wire brush drill attachment jobbies are pretty good..

Thanks Jim, kind of you to say so
The rust treatment is Metal Ready which I get from Frost. Spray it on, leave a while then wash with clean water to neutralize. Seems pretty good.
Tools are all fairly ordinary. A cordless drill with various sanding discs and wire wheels, the most effective of which was in a set from a £1 store!, wire wool and wet n' dry paper The porting has been done with different shape grinding stones in the drill and then I bought a set of burrs from ebay. I also have some smaller stones and brushes that came with a dremel type drill.
A small palm sander has proved quite useful in cleaning up the manifold mating faces.
Grease and other cleaning has been done with gunk, thinners and WD40.
The fuel pump I've just started cleaning with aluminium oxide paper and Brasso wadding





Painting is mostly U-Pol and Halfords stuff. Coated the rocker in petrol resistant lacquer this evening but progress stops for a week off now

[jimmyted]

thanks for the info Peter. Good luck with getting it up and running before CRaP! Are you keeping the standard cam or going for something a bit livelier?

[rich_jc]

Really good read there Peter. I've got an old block I want to re-hone and get up and running, so nice to see in picture form what is involved.

I will no doubt be pestering you at Crap about it.

Rich

[Peter-S]

thanks for the info Peter. Good luck with getting it up and running before CRaP! Are you keeping the standard cam or going for something a bit livelier?

I'm running a piper 270 at the moment Jim and I'll be putting that in the head that I've just ported.

Really good read there Peter. I've got an old block I want to re-hone and get up and running, so nice to see in picture form what is involved.

I will no doubt be pestering you at Crap about it.

Rich

Thanks Rich. Hopefully I'll be able to report that it was all worth the effort


A holiday and a spot of 'man flu' have kept me out of the garage but I'#ve cleaned up a couple more bits and freshened up the spare manifold.

[Peter-S]

Head's cleaned but can't put the valves in as I need the cam that's in the car now



Dug out a spare alternator



and freshened it up a little



Then I remembered I had a shiny dipstick tube from Stock but was worried it was too short compared to the one I'd removed



but the dipstick in the car now is a good bit shorter than the one on this engine. Don't know what that's all about but I'll just use the shorter stick as that is the right length ro the shiny tube



Then fitted a brand new push rod for the fuel pump



and this is where its at



Just need to find time to actually swap the engines now

[STOCK...tm]

Looking good there Peter

[Peter-S]

Well, this is the 'big' weekend. T'other half seems keen for this to be completed so she phoned round to find an engine hoist for hire to make sure! Picked it up first thing this morning.
So, car nosed into garage



Battery out and on charge, just in case!



Strut brace, rad etc out



All bolts removed and lifting commenced



Didn't want to remove the bonnet so a broom was wedged in to give a bigger opening but still a tight fit



and then it was out



Removed the clutch and flywheel to reveal a nice oil leak



Bit worried about the flywheel at first as it didn't look too good



But its a lightened item that I want to keep



Cleaned it up and gave it a going over with a fine wetstone and it seems fine with no crazing, just a bit of staining so put it on the rebuilt engine



As I need to strip the old head of the camshaft etc I thought I'd put just the bottom half in the car first then at least the hoist can go back



After a bit of cursing and a bruised nail it was all mated up



So I cleaned the dizzy ready to put back tomorrow



Hopefully the hardest part is done but took a good deal longer than Glyn and Phil's engine swap in a field last year.

[Peter-S]

Head ready for stripping



Valves in the new head



springs and colletts fitted



Gasket in place



Then it ball slowed down. Seemed to take an age to swap all the manold studs, clean stuff up, set the valve gaps etc so didn't get to start it today Getting there though

[Peter-S]

Took the hoist back this morning and chatting to the guy in the shop it turned out he was a big Capri fan and had owned several over the years including an RS3100 which he regrets selling!

Back home this evening I got most of the engine back together than cranked the engine without plugs to make sure the oil was Flowing.



New rocker gasket



Then filled it with water and found that th ethermostat housing that I had polished up had a pin hole leak in it and was pissing water out the side

So I got the one off the engine that I had been using and started to clean the scale off the inside and that had a bloody hole too



I had to dig out my plumber's trug and found some of that epoxy chemical metal stuff that you can use on water tanks etc and I've reinforced the housing from the inside. Should be OK but I'll let it cure over night.
I wante dto know if the engine ran though so jumped in the car and cranked it over - nothing!
Cranked it over again and ..... she lives
It was a bit chuggy and wouldn't really idle but its only set at staic timing at the moment but sounded OK when revved. I'll change the stat housing tomorrow and then I can run it up to temp and put the strobe on it.

[Beakster]

Great work Peter, looking really nice. If the chemical metal doesn't hold you could always bling it up with one of these: http://www.burtonpower.com/ft1072b.html

[Peter-S]

Great work Peter, looking really nice. If the chemical metal doesn't hold you could always bling it up with one of these: http://www.burtonpower.com/ft1072b.html

Thanks Chris.
Had reason to recall your 2.o woes yesterday. Running it up to temp I started to get a squeal. Took the fan belt off in case it was fan or alternator related but the squeal was still there coming from the front of the cam. Being a twat I'd used the wrong size screw on the oil bar and pinched the bearing. Fortunately I got away without the melting pot that you had.

Changed the bearing and ran it up to temp this evening and something else started knocking and clonking. Thought it might be a tappet coming loose and took the rocker cover off but all was OK. Then noticed the fan belt was loose. I hadn't tightened the four bolts that hold the fan pulley on and it was wobbling all over the place

Anyway, got there eventually, set the timing at 14 degrees tweaked the carb a little and went for a spin. It's going to need some more tinkering and probably a proper tune but it sure feels like it could be quite entertaing

[jimmyted]

Bloodyhell Peter! I've only been off the forum for a few weeks, and you've almost got the job done! Cracking effort. Makes my 6 - 7 month slog doing pretty much the same thing look a bit daft! I got one of those dipstick tubes off Stock as well, and I ended up using the dipstick from the original 1.6 engine as the 2.0 one was too long.