Things are still progressing slowly with the paint work, most of the flatting off is now done and the dash panel is now painted as well so its almost ready for its finnal finish. At the minute im quite glad its going a bit slow as ive finally found a decent engine for my project so its given me some time and more importantly space to get as far along with rebuilding it as possible before I get the shell back.
The core engine is a ROW 79 SC engine and seemed in nice clean condition when I went to collect it 2 weeks ago all beit a little dusty.
Upon strip down I did find a few worrying signs such as RTV silicon sealer used to seal the oil cooler but when I eventually got it all stripped everything was in good shape and more importantly a STD undamged crank.
I was working towards getting the bottom end put back together this weekend but ran into a few little snags, first I forgot to order the oil pump lock tabs and secondly when testing my piston squirters only one of them was closing, all the other allowed fluid through them without any resistence. They arnt supposed to open untill the oil reaches 2 bar of pressure and it can cause low oil pressure problems at idle so im in the process of changing all of them. The good news is I managed to get them all out without any issues.
Hopefully the last of the bits will be here next week so I can get at least the bottom end assembled before the painted shell returns ideally id like to get it built up to the cam towers so I dont have as much to do when the space runs out.
Steve
That's great news!
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