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Not my car, but it’s been fun getting Jack’s 1275cc engine ready for the first start tomorrow @ 10:00 am. Everything is new except for the crankshaft: New Cam, new main, big end and cam bearings, new oil pump, new water pump, engine washed, new valves, new valve springs, new pistons, rings, wrist pins, pushrods, head skimmed, valves seated, crank polished, head ported AND for those of you that do not know Jack – everything (virtually everything) that can be painted, has. It is mounted on a pallet on Jack’s garage floor ready for lift-off. We verified oil pressure yesterday and are both anxious to hear some VROOM, VROOM tomorrow. It’s pretty.
After we prove the engine, if all goes well, we will mate it to the transmission that we rebuilt a few months ago using the best parts of three other transmissions. (New clutch and disc and throw-out bearing of course.)
Wish us (especially Jack) well.
He folks,
…Not exactly a Tdr project but it is keeping my amateur auto mechanic skills growing and my brain exercised (none of these 50+ year old engines go together without a healthy dash of Yankee (er, make that SOUTHERN) ingenuity. For instance, the temporary desk fan radiator cooling jig…
Once this 1959 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite project is finished I’ll get back into my Tdr frame of mind as I try to figure out why my fine, extra special, high performance Weber center mounted carburetor is making soot along with horsepower — so much soot that I have perfectly-formed little black circles sprinkled all over my driveway and the side lawn. It’s as if the car is forever marking its territory so some stray Tdr won’t try to take over the garage and surroundings…
It might be time to follow Schu’s lead and go for the dual Kadron Carb setup……….According to Schu, he has had those carbs on his car for the last dozen or so years with only 1 failure (and that involved “parts-falling-off-car”)
Wish us luck on the startup and break in tomorrow.
Happy Jack
Hey Ed,
I thought that if anyone would be impressed by the desk fan it would be you!! How’s the fiberglass project going?
By the way, the engine started right up and ran with only a few oil leaks (gasket issues easily fixed by tightening up bolts and such.) Next step will be installing it in the car — after Christmas!!
Happy Jack
Good on ya, Jack. No new news on the fender stretch since the last update. I’m pretty confident I’ve got this in hand though (finger’s crossed). Hope to get a little more done this week, between Christmas shopping/wrapping/delivering goodies & etc. Will update again if I do.
79 degrees in New Bern yesterday !!
…Got the TDr out of its winter hibernation and took it for a spin around the neighborhood. I sure love the power and performance the car has with the center mounted Weber carb — once the initial loading up of cylinders 1&2 clears out.
If I can find and fix that problem…
Happy Jack
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