Goodness I’m tired! Saturday was a long day but I got close to being back where I should be. Let’s see, where to begin. So I got the piston/connecting rod that was in backward out and took it to Norman Racing Group on Thursday afternoon. Dan Marvin agreed to check the rod for straightness and pointed out that the piston was making contact with the head, something Tom Sahines told me to look for. I brought the head along too so they could tell me if there were problems with valve clearances etc which was a good thing as it was needed to cut the pistons down to clear the head. I asked if they could do a one day turn around on Friday so I could reassemble everything this weekend if I got the other three pistons to them first thing Friday morning. They said they would try.
I left their shop and pulled the other three pistons. I can’t complement Norman Racing Group and Dan enough. I had my wife drop the pistons off on Friday morning about 10am and they were ready when I got there at 430 to pick them up. I guess the bag of pastries she brought them probably helped but I doubt they were necessary. He gave the backward connecting rod a clean bill of health. I bought a new head gasket and set of Viton oil passage seals and away I went.
I guess you can’t really see the orientation in the manual, but I can tell you the offset goes toward the center on 2 and 3. Continue reading “101 1300 rebuild 15: almost back together”
As always, the teaser picture is actually the near final product. This carb looks pretty good but required $130 in new parts from my local Weber parts dealer. With the phenolic insulator block taking up about 6mm you can see the mounting nuts don’t fully engage the studs. Oh well, this is not a suspension component.
Here’s the new pipe mounted to the manifold with the asbestos heat shield bent out of the way. The oil pressure line is very close to the header with the heat shield in between. I plan on seeing if the pressure line can be bent or turned on the banjo bolt.
This is the before shot. I had been messing around with an old Weber so I had some fresh carb cleaner handy to clean the goo off the outside.
1493*26018 is not only 67 cars older than the next car, it is photographed in the same spot. There are some event stickers on the quarter window which if nothing else indicate this car drives well enough to do a few hundred miles.
These are the Giulieta items fresh from the media blast cabinet. These are contoured at the top to follow the curve of the windshield/dash intersection. The clamp up top is a cotter pin style and was used to clamp the defroster hose to the vent.
Some rust and crust can be seen here, but I don’t think it’s too bad. I pulled the seal and that weird washer that allows flow through the array of holes under the seal out and set to work with various implements to clean it up.
Here it is, fresh off the 00121 engine I am going to start rebuilding soon for the SS. It doesn’t look like much but the shaft spins nicely without having any side to side play. I am told these are pretty hard to find and expensive, so I will be careful.
As usual, the finished picture first. The red in the engine compartment came out good. Not great, just good. I think the level of finish in the engine compartment will match the rest of the car if I leave the valve cover alone.