How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[Jordan Baker]

Some more bits done.

[Jordan Baker]

Finally got all the NOS transmission parts I needed. Involved a trip to the states and a vehicle inspection by three CBSA officers.

[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.