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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:20 pm
by MikeyC
No worries. It's true condition will be a lot clearer for you once it's all stripped out on your bench.
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:42 pm
by impmad2000
Do you have an engine stand and yoke ? Sladey is looking after mine, which you are welcome to use if Mark isn’t.
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:19 pm
by RobFrost
impmad2000 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:42 pm
Do you have an engine stand and yoke ? Sladey is looking after mine, which you are welcome to use if Mark isn’t.
Yes thanks Tim, Anta lent me.
Rob
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:57 am
by sladey
impmad2000 wrote:Do you have an engine stand and yoke ? Sladey is looking after mine, which you are welcome to use if Mark isn’t.
Er…..
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:04 am
by impmad2000
I see Mark is currently using it
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:36 pm
by RobFrost
any excuse to show off the uber shed.
any experience by any chance whether the 4-spoke VW yoke is strong enough to hold a 1970 2.2 engine? Dempsey says make sure you have the 5-spoke Porsche one.
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:18 pm
by Lightweight_911
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I've used the 4-branch yoke - need to modify it slightly- without any problems:
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:51 pm
by 911hillclimber
No probs, mine has carried my heavy 3.2 many times.
The 4 wheel frame is far more stable than the 3 wheel.
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:09 pm
by RobFrost
Lightweight_911 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:18 pm
I've used the 4-branch yoke - need to modify it slightly- without any problems:
More importantly, where'd you get those "gazebos" for your Webers?
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:34 pm
by Lightweight_911
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They're 911R rain shields - bought many years ago from the US ...
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:00 pm
by RobFrost
I made a start in the tear-down. The nuts attaching the mfi stacks to the engine bring new meaning to the word "fiddly".
Paper in the intakes was a good sign, I thought:
A little investigation suggests the engine was mothballed in Spring 1982.
Maybe the owner bought one of these.
He was up North somewhere.
And had a little furry companion.
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:47 pm
by RobFrost
Ok this MFI throttle nut on cylinder 1 is absurd. Please illuminate me on how it gets removed.
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 8:51 pm
by RobFrost
I found a little piece of evidence on the engine cover... a fragment of smashed rear windscreen, I would imagine - suggesting the engine came from a car which was written off around 1983. I guess that tallies up with the broken rear engine mount, maybe it was rear-ended.
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Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:38 pm
by Gary71
RobFrost wrote:Ok this MFI throttle nut on cylinder 1 is absurd. Please illuminate me on how it gets removed.
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Crows foot spanner?
Re: Assessing an unknown engine
Posted: Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:37 pm
by RobFrost
Gary71 wrote:
Crows foot spanner?
I don't think it'd fit. In the absence of a better plan, I'll take an angle grinder to a socket and cut it down.
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