I made it around the block today. Nothing fell apart :) The front tranny mount is shot, though... slow speed is very scary as the whole thing moves and the thottle increases on it own!. I should have replaced it at the start, but was more interested in the engine. Well... next week will try that. Maybe I can do it without dropping the engine :)
Pictures and 2 small videos:
Eduardo Kaftanski wrote in news:btafkt$fvs$ snipped-for-privacy@enriqueto.nn.cl:
Eduardo, the videos are way cool! the engine sounds, uh...SWEET LOL Better get some plates for that vocho before the cops ask why you're driving around in reverse :-)
The front
What is with the engine sound? Fan grinding the shroud or is the audio just bad quality? Did not sound healthy.
the first videos are the fan grinding. in the last video, I am showing that I fixed the sound... still, the camera's microphone is very bad. The whooblewhoooble sound your hear is camera's invention...
the sound could also be from the last bits of the flywheel grinding itself to the bellhousing. I grinded out all I could but it still had some interference the first time I put the top bolts in. I just rotated the engine by lifting one whelland rotating it until it stopped grinding. Then separated the engine, vacummed the shavings and reassembled.
it does not sound that way anymore... and yes, this is my 'sacrificial' engine rebuild so I am not being very carefull. I am using it to learn and fully expecting it to fall apart in months... :)
the camera's mike is horrible. In the last video (the one when I start the engine) the engine sounds very smooth... in the previous ones the fan was touching the housing AND the belt was way too tight...
I live in a closed subdivision of 350 houses and cops never get in unless called by the local security... anyway, I have the plates. in Chile the plates stay with the car its whole life. you just have to get a yearly safety inspection, a 4 monthlu emissions inspection and a very small tax (small for a 1961 car, the tax is proportional to what the car is worth. if they didn't have a minimun I would pay less that a dollar :)
bad english... the sound in the first videos is the fan hitting the housing...
What bad has the shroud done to the fan? ;)
being all bent :)
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