My '47

I finally found a small hole in my passenger front tire, which slowly ( I mean slowly) loses air over time.  Being a some what decent day, I walked to NAPA ( Maybe half a mile away) and got a tire plug kit. Hopefully that takes care of that.

Unkamonkey wrote: Hopefully your parts showed up. I have had a few times that the poop just seems to land on me and you just need to accept it and go on. Supposedly you are a stronger person after. Right.

Think I am comfortable with the poop, it happens way too much

 Sigh.

 Next pay check I will be getting my block back and hopefully find a local engine builder...

 ( Would love to find a sponsor so I can do the Alaska or rust drive)

Drove to Vancouver WA and picked up my engine block. Every time I called I was told they would get a price list together and call me back. Happened a few times. Called this morning and the same thing. So I drove 2 hours to get everything.  Good thing he did not charge me anything. It was magnafluxed and looked good. Oh well.

 Found a closer engine shop and already talked with the owner today. Monday morning I will drive over and hopefully work something out.

I bristle reading about your shop problems... as I get back into these kinda things, I'm finding (at least around me) that dedicated automotive machine shops are or have kinda gone the way of the dinosaurs.  There a lot of "machine shops", but so many are CNC production work shops turning out all manner of things.

Need to get list.

Main bearings std. size.
Camshaft bearing.
Rear camshaft expansion plug. (Think I have it)
Rod bearings std. size.
Camshaft. Gear driven.
Piston rings. std. size.
Cylinder head block studs and nuts.
Valve springs.


Valve guides?

Stuff for later...

Oil filter hoses.

Crankshaft pulley shield.

After work tonight or tomorrow spend hours on websites tracking stuff down.

Valves as well?

Just thinking back to when I rebuilt mine the engineer reconditioner advised me to throw it all out, something to do with side valves being a bit harder on valves than an OHV engine.

I put new everything in, valves, springs, hardened seats on the exhaust valves etc.

Kept the stock cam but had it reground, but did the bearing, roller chain mod etc.

Oh, yeah, a NOS crankshaft as well, mine was cracked real bad.

The bits I saved, the block(sleeved it back to stock bore), head, con rods, cam, flywheel...everything else was replaced as it was totally worn out, guessing a lot of South African dust must have gone into it long before it came to NZ.

Good luck, mines running great now and it was all worth the effort to save the original engine.

Adrian

Dennis,

Yay! Also received my Kaiser Willys order! Feels like my birthday with all these presents!