12-Cab C60L & More

[Mike K]

Hi Andrew

Now you can at least get on with assembling the motor , after waiting so long for the bits to arrive and the rest ... I give you 10 out of 10 for sheer patience .. It's a shame that all of local the places where we used to buy the parts are long gone .

I've been very fortunate with motors .. I seem to find them in reasonable shape and I get away with new rings and bearings and a polish of the crank journals with fine grade emery cloth ( a trick the local engine man told me about, it smooths down those ridges up to 1 or 2 thou high ) ... so far , never had a failure. I've done a 46 Dodge ute, a 41 Ford motor and a Jeep motor and the C8 motor and the series 1 Land Rover motor with new rings and big end bearings. I think modern oil has something to do with it too as it seems to compensate for less than perfect tolerances .. The Ford I did had one bad rod , the new full floating rod shells ( bought from Hillman spares in Canterbury road..or was it Whitehorse road ) were loose on that rod , you could hear it knocking when cold but it stayed like that for all the time I drove it . It even passed a Tasmanian RTA roadworthy During its life, that Ford block had suffered a crack on the very front RH bank , a very clever person had bronze welded the crack and machined it flat .. thats a skill