Austin Devon Restoration

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Finely the engine is out!

Here is what it looks like, not to bad, everything is full of black sludge but it presurved everything well!
The outside is very, VERY dirty its like pitsh, anyone tips to kleen it??...

 

3-21-2012

Thanks

I will just clean everything, but new bearing shells, and I think I'll go for an Lead free conversion becaus I want to use it often :p
Ow and I'm also thinking about a chemical wash for the enginge to free the oil and water passages.

The engine paint I allready bought a wile ago..

I'll post my pictures of my work..

3-30-2012

Hallo Folks,

A company who cleans the tanks of trucks cleaned the engine for me yesterday! Today I've cleaned the last dirt of with a wire brush and painted the crankcase the first layer!
It went from this:

To this:

PS: I've found a very good trick to derust parts!
This is wat I do:



You should see small bubbles coming from the metal that is derusting
But never cover the bucket!
Never let the metal parts have contact in the water!
First put everything is place, then switch on the batterycharger!
And Don't put a flame in the water...
...The small bubbles are hydrogen...
... and we all know what happend to the "Hindenburg'' zeplin.

Here are some results: