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The work below was actually performed a few days ago but I haven't had the time to update the blog since. I got some great help from my friend Håkan Hiironen!
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| Started the day by putting random stuff from the floor into the new shelves I bought. Looks organized and nice! |
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| Some brackets where still attached to the engine, this is for the air pump. Fitted with two long bolts. |
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| The alternator bracket was attached with three bolts. One of them is crazily placed behind the tube connected to the water pump housing. Needless to say it was stuck and I've tried to remove it using different tools so I let it be while I thought about it. |
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| On to the oil stick and the tube into which it's fitted. This is just driven into the engine block and is easily just pulled straight out. |
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| The distributor is attached with the clamp at the base. One bolt holds it down. If I was to reuse the camshaft and distributor it would be crucial for me to pay attention to how these go together as incorrectly reinstalling will result in malfunction and possible engine damage or at least distributor damage. |
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| This is what the distributor looks like out of the engine. |
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| From within the engine there is a hole to the timing chain. This is normal but notice how the edge is really rugged. On these old engines not much time was put into traces of excessive material. I will have this removed for a nicer look. |
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| The oil pressure sensor. Rotate counter clock wise to remove. |
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| Okay, so I had it with the tube fitted to the water pump housing. Since I couldn't get it to rotate on its own - I cut it off. I intend to use a new water pump housing so, no harm. |
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| This is what the housing looks like... |
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| And the engine is getting really clean right now! |
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| Time to go in from the bottom. Turned the engine stand and emptied the coolant that was still in it... |
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| ...and started to remove the 20 bolts that hold the oil pan in place. It was also stuck to the block so I used a screwdriver to carefully pry it loose. |
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| This is what the oil pan looks like removed... |
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| ...and this is behind it in the engine. I was surprised to see the thin steel gasket covering the crankshaft, but I understand this is a windage tray, designed to provide rapid oil return and prevent oil splash back which, if I understand this correctly, would affect the rotation of the crankshaft negatively. I am not really convinced this is a real problem so I need to read into it before deciding wether to put one on again. |
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| Oil pan and windage tray together. |
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| Removal of oil pump pick up. The pipe was screwed into the internal end of the oil pump and was easily rotated out of its fitting just using my hands. |
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| Picture of the internals. I couldn't find any traces of material in the oil pan or adjacent to the crank so my guess is it's in decent condition but it is hard to tell at the moment. |
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| Finally, this is how the oil pump is attached to the engine block. All bolts needs to be removed and these are fitted with a lot of torque and should require quite some power to remove. |
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| The oil pump internals, more about this in the next post. |
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| At the end of the day, this is the current status of the engine in this project. I am progressing nicely! :) |
