How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Bob Carriere]

So much for your innocent looks!!!!!!

[rob love]

Bob: It is said the looks are the first to go....

Jordan: Hopefully all the bearings work out. If not, let me know and I can try again using the resources I have here at home.

[Jordan Baker]

It was all good. Glad to see CBSA doing random compliance inspections, it just such a waste on me.

Im pretty confident these bearings will all work out as they are NOS ones and the markings matched the originals.

[Jordan Baker]

Spent some time on getting the intake and exhaust manifolds restored and cleaned up. I ended up using the intake from the wartime engine and the exhaust from my replacement engine. The exhaust manifold on the wartime engine was very badly pitted whereas this one was in excellent shape. Ran both through the sandblasting cabinet. A lot of junk was cleaned out of the intake around the heat riser box. I only snapped one stud on the exhaust manifold and even with some decent heat to the stud it would not come free. So I drilled it out and retapped the hole. I’ll replace it with a new stud. I’m thinking I’ll paint the exhaust manifold in a high heat black

[Jordan Baker]

Today I moved the running engine over to the cart. It’s now way easier to work on it and move it around the shop. I have also been working away on repainting the engine in grey. Using a combination of wire wheels in the hand grinder I was able to strip away all the old orange paint and get down to bare metal. I then used a few different products to degrease the metal. So far it looks great and I can’t wait to start bolting everything back on.

[Jordan Baker]

Engine is finally all painted. I went with a grey rocker cover. The oil pan is black. I will need to punch out the front frost plug and replace it with a new one. The two on the side had pin holes when I started poking around with a screw driver.

Next up for painting is the timing gear cover then installing a new seal. I also removed the large pulley harmonic balancer from the wartime engine and will be putting it on this one. That way all the pulleys are matching.

My plan for later in the week is to get most everything back onto the engine. Although it always seems to take twice as long. So we will see what happens.

[Jordan Baker]

Today was mostly spent going to and socializing at the OMVA swap meet in Acton. I also picked up my set of new tires thanks to Gord Yeo. Once I’ve gotten the engine back together and the transmission done I’ll be doing my wheels.

Once I got home I spent a bit of time in the shop and loosely installed the intake/exhaust manifolds. I need to still tighten everything up, but I was getting hungry and a little cold in the shop. So I called it a day and came inside for left over Easter dinner food.