Engine GA000099, An early GA engine rebuild thread Options

[Superhawk996]

Last week I bought engine GA000099 from Freezing914 in the hopes of picking up some spare parts to support rebuild of the engine that came with my vehicle.

During the teardown of my vehicles engine, it is quickly becoming clear that the engine was abused by some DAPO. Cooling flaps and thermostat had been removed. Rust in the sump. The crank was scored and already 0.010" undersized. The oil pump was torn up. This is just the tip of the iceberg on the engine that came with my vehicle. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif)

14 hours of driving seems to have netted me an engine that might be worthy of a rebuild. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

This engine appears to be bone stock. D-jet mostly complete. As an added bonus I discovered upon teardown that none of the cooling tin fasteners have ever been disturbed. No screwdriver marks!

But . . . like any engine of this age and unknown origin, it absolutely needs to be gone though.

[Superhawk996]

I also have a tip for those of you with sand blasters. Not really new trick, but, I'm a slow learner.

For years I've struggled with my pressure pot. Works great for 1st 10-15 lbs of media but then starts getting clogging and intermittent media supply.

I've always worked around it by limiting the size of my batch to blast or by messing with various pressure setting above or below the sand to clear things out.

So I finally broke down and spend a grand total of about $12 to buy a mini water separator from HF. Today is humid as can be and I had absolutely no clogging. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

How dumb is that? Only been fighting this nonsense for about 10 years! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I simply put typical air coupler's on it, now it can be moved from pressure pot to bench top booth, or whatever else might need extra water filtration. You wouldn't believe how much moisture gets this far down the line even tough I have another water trap back in the garage!

[bbrock]

I also have a tip for those of you with sand blasters. Not really new trick, but, I'm a slow learner.

For years I've struggled with my pressure pot. Works great for 1st 10-15 lbs of media but then starts getting clogging and intermittent media supply.

I've always worked around it by limiting the size of my batch to blast or by messing with various pressure setting above or below the sand to clear things out.

So I finally broke down and spend a grand total of about $12 to buy a mini water separator from HF. Today is humid as can be and I had absolutely no clogging. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

How dumb is that? Only been fighting this nonsense for about 10 years! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I simply put typical air coupler's on it, now it can be moved from pressure pot to bench top booth, or whatever else might need extra water filtration. You wouldn't believe how much moisture gets this far down the line even tough I have another water trap back in the garage!

This will make you mad. I have a nice Sharpe water separator on my air supply that I moved when I left Kansas, plus an auto drain purge on the compressor tank that pops off a puff of air every 30 minutes to keep the water drained. The other day I realized I had been running my compressor a LOT for blasting but hadn't drained the separator for months. I opened up the petcock until it hissed. Nothing but dry air. I LOVE not having to deal with humidity anymore! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)