Engine Rebuild

19th November
Its been almost a month since my last post.  Things have moved on quite a lot.

Started re-building the engine.  Replaced the pushrod tubes, new tinware, and a lot of cleaning.

 

 

The engine came with a DRLA 36D carb.  The engine is a 1776cc, it runs great but doesn't idle well.  I think we will have to strip it down and check everything is good, but not yet.  We really wanted to get it set up and run it for a while to make sure we had a good engine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Heres the front end all done.  The lowest point is 100mm (4") off the floor, this is the maximum height available as well.  This was achieved with dropped spindles, beam adjusters and Bugpack lowered shocks.

 

 

 

Disc brakes fitted to the rear, replaced the gearbox seals, heat exchangers cleaned and painted in high temp paint.

 The completed running gear.  Next jobs fit pedals, make and fit new brake lines then onto the body.

 

Front Beam

16th October
Complete disaster.  Turned the floor pan right side up, and started looking at tiny bits of reaction of the KBS coating on the frame head.  One thing lead to another and in an attempt to investigate, I ended up taking the entire coating off.


Even though the 3 step process was followed to the letter, the coating has not bonded to the metal at all, and although there was no surface rust before, surface rust was found under the paint.

 

So the Rust blast obviously didn't work, and the rust seal paint didn't bond.  The big question is what to do with the entire floor pan?  Do I strip it off now or hope that it has bonded better.

I have checked the pan, and at the minute I have left it as is.  See below a photo of the front end now re-sprayed in Hammerite and rebuilt front beam fitted.


The steering box came up pretty good after a good clean.