Carbs...

For some reason, I haven't yet braged about the carbs, I've found for the hopped up B!
I'm now the owner of TWO Stromberg 81s!
The first one I found on a swap meet, paying 200,- danish kroner (less than $40!), the second one I bought from the webmaster of the danish Ford early V8 forum for 500,- kroner (around $90).

Looking forward to getting them on, combined with the Scintilla magneto!

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

Top off and into my eye

Yesterday I was in the garage, had finally gotten to take the top off the B-engine, I bought in the fall.
The top had been sitting there for a long time, and it wasn't keen on the idea of getting off. I tried with almost every sharp object in the garage, screw drivers, hammers heads and the only chissel, I have, and finally I borrowed my father in law's chissels for breaking wood - then it budged and came off!





When I got to open it, I could see the second cylinder's valves had been open for a long time, since it contained leafs and dirt.





When I took off the water pump, I accedently fliped it upside down, and I think half of the housing came out as rust!


I started cleaning up the cylinders, discovering that it has already been bored to ,030" oversize. What Nova means, I do not know.


For some reason, the intake valves reads "Ford R" - if anyone knows, what this stands for, I'll be very glad, if you'd let me know!


I got an itch in my right eye, but thought nothing of it. As it kept itching all the next day, only getting worse, I drove to the hospital 23 hours later. They told me, I had a scratch on my eyeball, measuring 1x2 millimeters! No fragments left, and the eye will heal it self, but still a very annoied eyeball!


So I got a patch for my eye.


So remenber: old cars are fun, but be carefull!

Keep 'em kruzin!
Dannerr

How mistakes can turn out for the better

A while back I made a wanted "to buy AA bellhousing", because I wanted to put a Volvo M40 gearbox in Ole-Henry (like Artiki did: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=168654), in order to get four fully syncronized gears. I kind of had forgotten it, untill suddently some guy emailed me and said, he had two, a 28-29 and a 30-31. Seeing the possibility of the A clutch housing on the B engine could be a permanent solution, especially if it was fitted with the M40, I thought I could use the AA bellhousings, or at least give it to some other 4banger guy, and made the arrangements to pick them up.
When I arrived, we first had to look at some spare AA gearbox parts, I couldn't use, since I'm only in need of the housing. Then the seller excused for misinforming me, because he had found out, that the second housing was not for a different year of the AA, but it was for the BB! My jar dropped to the ground, and suddently I saw the opportunity of getting a M40 behind my Kölner with the full alu bellypan! So I shook his hand, and the deal was made - from last sunday afternoon I am now the owner of both a AA and a BB bellhousing!
Today, a week later, I got to try if it woud fit the G28T (Kölner) engine, together with the B upper engineside of the bell housing, and it did!












Here with the belly pan:





But I need to make new rear motor mounts:





And the AA fited the A like a glove!






So now I need a couple of spacers, pick up two M40s from the Volvo shed, drill new holes to match them, and figure out a way to mount the torquetube to the back of the M40 or convert to open shaft, and make new pedal mountings.
But I'm not far from a couple of four speed Model A's!

Broken flywheel housing

I ended up putting the B-motor back together, in order to get it in to Ole-Henry, my '30 tudor. And in the middel of reassembeling it, I discovered that I have broken the motor side upper half of the flywheel housing!



























Therefore am I looking for one, which is not broken!

For now, I assembeled the engine with one from a model A, but I would like to have the right one for the B-motor.

UPDATE: After going to Bedrock, I found out, someone had heard my cry out, because suddently I was stopped by Kedde - the guy, who with his Kölner-powered '29 Tudor is responsible for getting me hooked on Model A's. And he gave me an old clutchhousing for free, because as he put it "I sold the car, so you need it more than I do"... Gotta love those generous 4banger guys!! :-D

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

I found me a Kölner!!

I finally maneged to get me a Ford Kölner G28T engine, with a G38T head, like the one I have on my B engine. It seems only to be the head, there is different on the G28T and G38T model.

I started stripping it to determine its condition and to find the crutial differences with a model A engine.
Besides what I allready knew (bigger bearings, better lubrication, sharper camshaft), I discovered it has an all aluminum oil pan! That the upper half of the fly wheel housing does not have the mountingholes for the mounting brackets between the engine and car frame. And that the rear end of the crankshaft is closed in by the oil pan, instead of having a , like the A and B/C engine.
So now I'm looking for a upper half fly wheel housing from a B engine, where the bracketmounting holes are. Otherwise I could cut the bottom half fly wheel housing off the G28T oil pan, but I think it looks good, so I try finding the B upper half.
Here are some pictures of it:
































So, for now the future holds some parts searching, and then I hope to have it ready to put in to a car next spring!

Keep 'em kruzin!

Dannerr

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!