I got the engine taken apart last week and began inspecting and cleaning. I knew that my motor had been rebuilt at some point, and it was quite obvious after I had it taken apart. Very clean and in great shape. I have decided that I am just going to leave as is and see how it runs when I drop it back into the chassis and not do a rebuild right now.
After a lot of varsol and cleaning under the head with a razor, it was clean and ready for paint!
Justin was up for the weekend and brought it his engine stand and attachment needed for the Model A motor.
The oil pump was quite dirty and the screen was covered in thick sludge, so we put it in varsol over night to clean it. Justin disassembled and put it back together for me.
The only problem that we ran into was a little bit of up and down movement on the #2 piston on the crankshaft. We took it off and removed one shim on each side to help tighten it up to the crankshaft. Once we re-torqued it to 45 lbs it still had a bit of play, but better then before. It is our understanding that the only thing that I may run into is a bit of a knocking noise when the moto
