Engine, part 1.

Hello everybody!

We decided to start an engine overhaul. So it begun.

At first were heads; nothing much to mention about, somebody has probably done something for it lately, because everything looked fine to me. Just some valve lifters had some scruffs on them, so we'll change them to new one, and clean out everything.

On every cylinder, there's about 10mm wide range at the top of cylinder, some weird bumps, or dents. I think it's marks of corrosion, if car has been out of use a long time. But somebody has at least honed cylinders after those dents, and they don't affect to anything, so we'll just hone cylinders and reassemble with new piston rings.

And then we're going down; At first we thought just to put new bearings and gaskets, and drive to the sunset after easy engine overhaul. 🌅 We even left a flywheel to crankshaft, because we thought just put it back with new bearings. Plans changed a bit, when we took a crankshaft out. It had some scratches on surfaces of connecting rods. I think, it's been a long time, when these bearings has been installed. So we have to take a crankshaft to the machine shop and ask, can they fix it. New crankshafts doesn't grow up on trees, so we truly hope, it can be fixed. 😬

If you look carefully, you can see those dented areas on cylinders

Half way there

Heads up! 🙌

Crankshaft