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- Sat Apr 27, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Ok so I gave the Internet a few days to critique my proposed solution, or come up with a better one. I wasn't that keen on putting a grinder inside the engine as I know how they can grab and shoot across and instantly take a chunk out of something. Here goes nothing... https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.c...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:38 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Maddening Running Issue
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2364
Re: Maddening Running Issue
Original 1970 tank seen here viewtopic.php?t=68983&hilit=petrol+tank ... e&start=45
72 is the same i'd guess?
72 is the same i'd guess?
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:25 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Maddening Running Issue
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2364
Re: Maddening Running Issue
The allen key is the drain plug. The others - one is send and the other return I think. Looks original to me. Does it have a thick plasticky underseal type material all over it? Grey if I remember correctly.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Maddening Running Issue
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2364
Re: Maddening Running Issue
Sell the fuel tank on ebay (or on here). That will fill a gap for somebody, and people value originality. If anyone wants it happy for it to go free to a good home. I’m not sure if it’s original or not. Sure someone with the skills and time could restore it. PM me if any interest. Sent from my iPho...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
I thought Mike had retired? Hopefully he still wants to share his experience. Don't the pistons pass through the cylinder holes in the block halves? That lump of alloy jamming the piston should tap back into the case where it dropped in from? Do the rods move on their big ends or tight? When my 3.2...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:36 am
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Thanks, that's most kind of you, (if it comes to that).Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:21 am .
If it's of any help I have a used oil pump connecting shaft you're welcome to ...
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I might drop Mike Bainbridge a line as I'm sure he has dealt with this eventuality on multiple occasions.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:16 am
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Maddening Running Issue
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2364
Re: Maddening Running Issue
Sell the fuel tank on ebay (or on here). That will fill a gap for somebody, and people value originality.
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:09 am
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Perhaps you’ll need to drill or cut the piston to get access to the rod bolts, ideally without damaging the rod? I contemplated that but I'd have to do both, and one is a good piston (one broken). A new oil pump driveshaft is £60. A new piston, more. Although in truth, I'm probably replacing all th...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
If you can get a set of three pistons off and then release half of the crankcase you can maybe get to whatever is jamming it, or to the other rod bolts and then it should come apart. Just put the engine stand connection on the side with the stuck pistons pointing towards the floor and leave the cra...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 9:47 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Being entirely satisfied that it is the seized oil pump that's preventing the crank from turning, I formed a plan to break away these circlips and see if I can slide the centre of the oil pump driveshaft off its splines in one direction, allowing the crank to turn. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:48 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
I have no clue where this is going because 3 and 6 are irremovable but it feels like a step forward in some sense. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240425/5322ec617f8c5847f6ded8c425888443.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20240425/723cb5e4c3b251471396336c44a4738d.jpg Sent from my SM-G988B using...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:18 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Oil pickup contains metal flakes - feels like magnesium.
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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:14 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Ok what should have been obvious before has now dawned on me. The case can't be separated with the pistons on the crank because the pistons will not pass through the webs of the case. So these wrist pins will have to come out by hook or by crook. One option I have is to remove the circlip from the I...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Next little obstacle - I can see a piece of metal jammed alongside this piston. It's dropped into there while the engine the other way up.
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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: Pre 1974 - Porsche 911 (longhood)
- Topic: Assessing an unknown engine
- Replies: 97
- Views: 3761
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Tantalising...
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