Sunday, March 25, 2012

The "red Flyers" engine



This is the original 4 cylinder engine. After getting it mounted on a engine stand and torn down I discovered very bad burn't valves and two broken valve springs and also a blown out head gasket.  Last time it ran it had a bad skip. It didn't use or burn oil so after checking piston slap and crank bearings and seeing cylinder walls were in great shape I decided to leave crank,and pistons alone.
        Work done and new parts:
                  1. complete engine gasket set
                  2. rebuilt oil pump
                  3. rebuilt water pump
                  4. rebuilt carburator
                  5. replaced all valves,springs and keepers then ground the valve seats
                  6. rebuilt starter and generator
                  7. hammered out all dents in the oil pan (hit many field rocks)
                  8. rebuilt distributor and all new electrical stuff from coil to plugs.
                  9. painted all original Model A colors.





 

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