middie
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I have started stripping down the 1500 motor from my 79 and thought I'd start off by seeing how much movement I had in my thrust washers. I tried to look for movement by gently levering between the rear of block and flywheel, and front of block and crank pulley. But unfortunately I couldn't get any movement at all.
Ah, ha, I thought - this is not good. So I tried to turn the motor over by hand to see what was going on. Now I know I'm not the strongest bloke in the world, but I thought I'd be able to make the pistons go "up and down", but once again no movement.
Is there a secret "motor movement" process I should be using?
My worry is that the motor has been out of the car for a couple of months now, with quite a few of the bits off it. Is it possible that moisture has found its way inside and done a bit of rusting of pistons to cylinders?
If this is the case how do I proceed from here? I've squirted some WD40 into the spark plug holes to see if that will loosen somthing up.
thanks Warren
Ah, ha, I thought - this is not good. So I tried to turn the motor over by hand to see what was going on. Now I know I'm not the strongest bloke in the world, but I thought I'd be able to make the pistons go "up and down", but once again no movement.
Is there a secret "motor movement" process I should be using?
My worry is that the motor has been out of the car for a couple of months now, with quite a few of the bits off it. Is it possible that moisture has found its way inside and done a bit of rusting of pistons to cylinders?
If this is the case how do I proceed from here? I've squirted some WD40 into the spark plug holes to see if that will loosen somthing up.
thanks Warren