Starter-blocking

I finally found some time to wrench on the broken A-motor, when my brother came in friday night. And it turned out, that it was the starter, who blocked up the intire driveline!

So instead of a engineoverhaul, it might be doable with a new starter!

So the B-motor is still planed to become a much finer engine, before becoming a new resident of Ole-Henry!

A huge thanks to Mathias for being so helpfull with the motor and the floor in my new garage!

Earlier in use than expected...

During an otherwise fantastic weekend with my brother and his friend, wrenching on the chopper, party with the infernal moped riders "Teufelkerle", hypnoboobies, garagemusic, tiresmoke and twostroke exhaust, I'm now faced with the need to fix up the engine a little sooner than first planed.

My brother and his old classmate Henrik came to visit, to see what I'm doing. And after showing them the office, the old Ole-Henry didn't start as usual. A little nudjing and pushing, but the engine looks to be broken down really bad this time! Not planed, not kuul!!

So the B-motor has to come alive soon, as I need it in the car for my bachelorproject - hydraulic brakes for the Ford Model A. And therefor I needed to have it weighed, which the local steel-recycling company, Bagsværd Jernhandel, was willing to help with. But the breakdown two days before made it quite a challange, which my good classmate Christopher helped with by pulling me in Ole-Henry with his 4,0 litre, six cylindered Toyota HJ60 LandCruiser, all the 3 miles throuogh the horrible morning traffic in downtown Lyngby. A big thanks to the guys at Bagsværd Jernhandel and a great bunch of thanks to Chris!!

It woun't be with blower or any fancy things at first, but it all depends on, how bad it is, when I get it appart. I just need a working engine in the car NOW!

It's home!

My B-engnie is finally home!

It got unloaded the country way:

The frame, it's positioned in:

Markings on the head (supposedly it's a Kölner industrial head):

Markings on the engine:

And just maybe:

Can't wait till getting it appart! But that will not happen for a few weeks, due to work and other timeconsuming stuff!

"Honey, it's home!"

After a 16 hour tour (of which a couple of them was spend on talking), I now have my "new" B-engine within my grasp!

Pictures will be posted tomorrow... :-)

I've found a Ford B-engine!

It's an engine used on a technical school as an assembly engine for car-mechanics apprentice, which means, it's been assembled and disassembled many times, which means all threads in the block should have an overlook as the first thing.

The plans at the moment is to bore out the bearing to replace them with inserts (from a MG-B or any other, which is supposed to fit aruond the crankshaft), a sharper camshaft, balanced crankshaft, exaust header, 2 Stromberg "81"s (if I find one more!)...

But the money is the issue, so time will tell, how many of the plans, I'll get to realize.