How To: C15a Wire-3 restoration

[David Dunlop]

Things are looking good, Jordan!

David

[Alex van de Wetering]

Lovely work on the rad and shrouds, Jordan. It seems you work just as easy with steel as you do with styrene!

[Pete Ashby]

Very nice work Jordan

Pete

[Jordan Baker]

Thanks all for the compliments.

Today I mounted the radiator on the test engine stand. Things are getting closer to running the engine up and making sure all is good before installing it in the truck.

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Jordan

Out of curiosity are you going to paint the tips of the fan?

Reason I ask is that I've gone over to painting the outer 2 inches of the fan blades front and back either white or red for safety reasons. It hurts when you gets your fingers hit. I paint both front and back because if you paint only the back side there is one angle looking from the right that all you see is edge and the front of the blade.

Looks like you are getting close to running the engine on the test stand, so much nicer to find those little leaks or noises when the engine is out of the truck. Have also found it is a lot easier to run the engine though a couple of heat cycles and re-torque the head. Adjusting the valves is so easy when you can walk around the engine.

Looking forward to the first engine run video.

Nice work on the fan shroud.

Cheers Phil

[Jordan Baker]

I thought about painting the tips but then didn’t.

Anyway I got he engine running up for its first extended time. When I filled the radiator tonight I was quite happy about no leaks anywhere until it started leaking. I realized that I missed putting the gasket in when the thermostat goes. So I drained the system and pulled that apart and got the gasket installed. All is good now. I also had changed out the side pan gasket. The one I had out on was garbage. The gasket itself soaked up oil and was like a sponge. Felpro to the rescue and no leaks.

The first video is without a tail pipe. I then loosely put the tail pipe on. The metal clinking noise you can hear is the exhaust pipe rattling

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=...&v=L83cKSWlW3Y

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dI9Ckf...ature=youtu.be

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Jordan

Looks and sound good. Yes getting the side panel to seal can be a real problem. I've had similar problem with "new" gaskets leaking through the material, for me it was the thermostat gasket that just plain weeped.

When I was working on the 235 and 261 I ran the engine with a lexon clear side cover and was surprised how much oil is standing in the side valve gallery when the engine is running. Other thing that showed up was how much condensation forms inside that cover shortly after starting. Will look to see if I have video clear side cover on the 216.

Like what category your engine test videos are listed, "comedy".

Cheers Phil