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[Asphalt]

ahaa. dont worry mister, im not going to IMM

Yeah, I'd say that too (to be honest; I realy am a bit afraid...)

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Today I thought it's about the right weather to lift the engine.
Said - done. And it was NEVER ever that easy!

Thanks to the pulley, I could lift the engine with just 2 fingers (it's able to lift 2 tons ).



And I found the perfect tool for removing the little splint from the gear rods:



Greased it up a little so it stuck in the splint. Didn't even need to jack the car up
Another trick I've recently learned is to remove the clutch cover whilst the engine is still in the car!
This enables the servo to stay just where it is, without touching it. The last two boöts can be undone when the engine is lifted a bit.



Tomorrow I'm going to split the gearbox from the engine. and then the adventure of my very first gearbox rebuild starts

Cheers,
Jan

[Asphalt]

Engine split today... Clutch came off on first try. *Phew*.

And - surprisingly - my first suspicion turned out wrong.
Idler gear and castings are 100% spotless and look like new.
Didn't expect that, to be honest... Not on a 1275cc SPI engine...?







I somehow can't believe this engine had been runing 90.000km plus...!?

Next candidates: main shaft and laygear shaft and diff.

Cheers,
Jan

[timbo]

good work mate. What size fish carb came with the throttle linkage then mate?

timbo

[Asphalt]

good work mate. What size fish carb came with the throttle linkage then mate?

timbo

Thanks! 'T was a 1.5" too ( means I have two now ).

Cheers,
Jan

[timbo]

Well there is only one thing for it man!! Get a manifold made and have them as twins on you engine! That would be awesome.

[Asphalt]

Well there is only one thing for it man!! Get a manifold made and have them as twins on you engine! That would be awesome.

I'm waiting for a third one to come to me
Can't stand the look of two differently shaped carbs

But hell yeah - that'll be awesome!
And I already spend the one or other thought about doing just that!

Cheers,
Jan

[timbo]

Mate that would be awesome!

I think if you had twin fish on there I would make a journey over to germany just to see it!! By the way mate as you seem to get all these parts, if you come accross any 1 1/2" minnow fish carbs point them in my direction as I wouldn't mind buying another so I can run twins when I eventually get my 1071 built.

[Asphalt]

Will do! I like twins
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How's your project coming along?
I'm a bit jelous for your 1071 engine...

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Gearbox is soaking in brake cleaner - loking forward to strip it tomorrow

Cheers,
Jan

[Asphalt]

Gearbox is soaking in brake cleaner - loking forward to strip it tomorrow

Haha - still waiting for a effing 1.1/8" socket to turn up to finaly remove the main shaft n bearing. Anything else is stripped, layshaft looks still solid (will be replaced anyways) but outputshafts have way too much play, thought. So I thing I found the source for the whining

So instead of stripping the gearbox I made some experiements with electrolytic rust removal.

My guinea pigs were a pair of early Mk1 demist vents. They are mado of steel and welded togehter. I like to fit them, because they don't dent the centre speedo's facings not as much as the later plastic vents do. Paint was stripped with some old brake fluid before electrolytic bath.

Before - during - after - finished.






And I trial fitted the new centre speedo pod. everything fits ok and looks good, thought. Facings will be remade as I broke one during removal




Cheers,
Jan

[analogue_radio]

Steel demister vents are also better than the plastic vents because they don't let air escape, the plastic ones are stapled together so they aren't very effective not sure if you knew that or not, but hey!

How useful is that electrolytic bath? certainly does look like it does a good job!

[Asphalt]

Steel demister vents are also better than the plastic vents because they don't let air escape, the plastic ones are stapled together so they aren't very effective not sure if you knew that or not, but hey!

How useful is that electrolytic bath? certainly does look like it does a good job!

Yes, that's another advantage ( there's now parts from 1964 to 1998 on my Mini )

It's quite effective. But I think you'r faster with mechanic removal (wire brush, sanding paper etc.).
But for a lazy a§§ like me it's quite cool Put it in, wait a few hours and rub down any rust. The main adavantage is that you don't damage the surface (any further).

[Asphalt]

Still no socket... So violence had to do the job. And did quite well



Lower left corner: the two tools I used to drift out the main bearing.
A U shaped piece of aluminium and a piece of wood

Castings cleaned and drying in the sun...




Now: more cleaning, disasembling and reasembly. If the socket turns up tomorrow, it *maybe* is runing again by next week

It was far easyer than I've always thought it would be, to overhaul a gearbox.

Cheers,
Jan

Edited by Asphalt, 09 April 2009 - 04:26 PM.

[Asphalt]

Main gear cluster fully stripped this afternoon. The 2. gear plunger did bug me a bit bit eventually gave up



And now for some sun-bathing - gearbox can wait...

[Asphalt]

Since my parents went to bavaria for week on holidays, I thought the best place to assemble the gearbox was the livingroom



And finished work for today:



What a bugger to get the retainers back on... Took me half the day... The other half I spend with cleaning everything - at least could do it on the terrace in the sun

[AndrewJ530]

Since my parents went to bavaria for week on holidays, I thought the best place to assemble the gearbox was the livingroom

Ha ha i like your thinking lol.