About 4 hours and a good start.

[tomshobby]

Well we finally pulled the engine and now have got at least a start.

Took about 4 hours to get to this point. I will now split the engine and trans, remove a few more parts from the engine and get it to the machine shop.

 

[Brosky]

Let the cleanup and painting begin! After the rebuild of course, Looks good Tom.

 

[Guest]

Those pictures gave me a headache! Brought back bad memories from a few months ago.



<span style='font-size: 8pt'>What the heck is railroad gardening???</span>

 

[Bugeye58]

<span style='font-size: 8pt'>What the heck is railroad gardening???</span>

That's where you train the plants, Bill. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif
Jeff

 

[tomshobby]

Bill,

Garden railroading, that is when you run trains in your garden. Like my circus train here.

 

[PeterK]

I see those head bolts. Bag 'em and tag 'em. Keep all the valve parts in order too. Take (more) pictures.

btdt many times

 

[tomshobby]

No problem Peter, old timer mechanic here. The head bolts in the pic are going to be bagged, in the trash bag that is. And even though the valve parts have been kept in order most will be replaced also.

I did take a few more pics. I have pulled so many engines over the years that I don't know what might be of interest to the forum. The other thing is that by the time I think I should take a pic of something I am way beyond that point. Maybe a pic of the air tools I use. I think they make the biggest difference in the job.

Notice in my pic above that I did not bend my lift eyes on the engine. Did not use them.

Well, time to go spend time with my grand kids, I will probably not do more with this for a few days. And I will try to remember to take more pics. And I promise to take a lot of pictures at the machine shop. That should interest many.

 

[RomanH]

I just got mine back up and running after doing a major overhaul. What are you going to do to your engine? What was wrong with it to bring you to this point?

 

[AltaKnight]

Tom.....
Well I'm sure impressed with the Railroad Gardening.
Surprised you have time for the cars keeping that going.
If I was to try that here I'd nedd a train with a snowplow on the front even now in April!

 

[hondo402000]

makes me think really hard about pulling my engine out and rebuilding it

 

[tomshobby]

Graham, I hand made the cars and wagons in the farthest half of the train, and did all the graphics on them.

RomanH, The main reason for doing this is to install the cam bearings, replace the thrust bearings, and generally go through the engine before trouble comes along. It has lost some compression and a freshening would not hurt. Timing chain and gears, oil pump and things like that. I want this engine to last a long time and plan on taking this car on trips around the country.

And....it is a great excuse to give it a little power boost.
so, Goodparts GP2 cam, the larger early TR6 exhaust valves and seats, balancing the engine, distributor done by Advanced, carbs by Paltech with Jag needles, Ansa exhaust, probably Jet-Hot headers, have not decided about pistons yet. Pretty similar to what several others have done.

 

[TR4nut]

Looks great Tom!

How fast are you planning on getting back on the road? If I did what you are doing, I'm positive I would lose the summer with it.

Randy

 

[tomshobby]

Randy,

It depends when I can get the engine back from the machine shop. That plus a week or so.

 

[NickMorgan]

I see those head bolts. Bag 'em and tag 'em. Keep all the valve parts in order too. Take (more) pictures.

btdt many times

Yes, definitely don't leave them there. I did that and one of the manifold nuts jumped inside the engine while I was replacing the head! ... BANG ...