After the restoration: Engine Teardown [page 9]

Today I checked the replacement oil gears. Translating the measurements from the Barrington book to metric I get an allowable backlash range of 0.10 mm to 0.25 mm. Mine measures as something less than 0.25 mm. The allowed clearance is 0.01 mm to 0.04 mm. My 0.05 mm feeler wouldn’t fit (good) and I had to scrounge around the garage to find something smaller.

The replacement lifters polished up just fine. Those are dust specs on the bottom lifter in the picture, not pits.

The cylinder heads came back ready to install. One of the spark plug inserts was just starting to back out. It was removed, the head welded, then drilled and tapped. I took them out of the plastic bags they were in to take a closer and to snap these images. They look quite nice. Back in the plastic they went. Now I need to make the pistons and cylinders look as good.

The cylinders were cleaned with kerosene and masked. I’ll bead blast them this weekend so they will be ready for new paint.

I bead blasted the rust (but not all the paint) off of the cylinders a week and a half ago. Today I washed them and blew them dry then wiped the bores down with an oily rag. In the time I did that the external body had already started to flash rust! I brushed all external surfaces with acetone as part of the paint prep. Finally the cylider ends were masked.

I’m using a satin black because I like it against the white frame. Yeah, they were more of a gloss from the factory. I don’t care! Over the period of two hours I probably applied 8 very thin coats, 10-15 minutes apart.

No drips noticed. The cylinders are drying in a box in the garage. Tomorrow I’ll see if there are any spots I missed. I’ve plenty of paint left if more coats are necessary.