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| SirAndy |
  Aug 18 2004, 06:03 PM
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Resident German  Group: Admin Posts: 41,679 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California  |
after a few weeks of R & D the engine is finally running!
carbs completely rebuild, new fuelpump, new dizzy and a few more parts, tons of hours of swearing, tire kicking and head-to-wall pounding the car finally left Bill's shop this morning for her first prolonged testdrive. WOW (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) don't know how many HP but it sure feels like at least 563.28, dude (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif) what a blast! no problem getting her loose through the first 3 gears, yipeeeh ... now the bad part: got to the gas station (after about 4 miles of spirited driving). while i fill her up a guy points to the car "dude, your car is loosing oil". i look under it and WTF? *huge* puddle of oil and it's still pouring down! i roll the car forward and sure enough, there's a quart of brand new swepco on the ground. after some headscratching and a phonecall to brad the conclusion is that the main bearing is going bad (we knew that, you can hear it whine on decel) and now that i put that much more power through the tranny, the main shaft starts to "wobble" due to freeplay causing the seal to leak like a syphon ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) so, it's back to the shop for a tranny-rebuild ... will this ever end, i ask you? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) Andy |
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| Carrera916 |
Aug 19 2004, 02:09 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 292 Joined: 9-February 03 From: Pleasanton, CA Member No.: 273 |
Yo Andy...
Capt Crush got me thinking for a bit and dang, I hate to shoot questions to ya or anyone if it sounded a bit stupid to ask but gotta ask! On the input shaft seal, the spring-band around the inner seal lip tends to slip off if the seal are not press in right....it's kinda hard to see if it's still in right place or not but that's something you can look into it by pulling out the intermediate plate with all the gear plumbings (long way to do it but the only way) and see if the spring band is is out on the shaft or not... and the vent on top of gearbox....make sure it's open...the weakest point for the oil to piss out due to internal pressure, is the input main shaft seal! Probably some would come out of the drive flanges if the input seal holds up.... Other than that, congrat on getting your engine up and running right! j Let us know what you find!! |
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SirAndy 2.1L Bad Boy™ Engine Update ... Aug 18 2004, 06:03 PM
! Shit....I have an extra trans down here....you can... Aug 18 2004, 06:16 PM Randal QUOTE
SirAndy SirAndy rhodyguy the sound of the webers kind of grows on you after... Aug 18 2004, 07:03 PM Cap'n Krusty Having done 914 trannies since tranny school in 19... Aug 18 2004, 07:12 PM SirAndy ... Aug 18 2004, 07:57 PM Demick Hey Andy
Great news about the engine! Bad ne... Aug 18 2004, 08:16 PM SirAndy Jake Raby Andy, thats about a 120 HP engine at the flywheel ... Aug 18 2004, 08:59 PM Joseph Mills <... Aug 18 2004, 09:44 PM trekkor This is awesome! :trophy:
Can't wait to ... Aug 18 2004, 10:25 PM rhodyguy dies at the light or won't start in the am? :o... Aug 19 2004, 08:11 AM Demick QUOTE
! Is Bradholio gonna let ya dyno it...would love to ... Aug 19 2004, 03:25 PM |
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