Thread: 41 Willys Gasser project

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I got my block back yesterday afternoon, immediately gave a good scrub up with detergent and hot water, rifled all the oilways out and dried it with the airline, then masked it up to paint it this evening, hears the results.














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Looking like a million Steve!

Gona be a shame to FIRE IT UP. But I've seen gold ones fire up at ISAC shows in the past

Originally Posted by cffisher

Gona be a shame to FIRE IT UP. But I've seen gold ones fire up at ISAC shows in the past

Why Charlie ???

I think he meant it looks so nice it would be a bummer to get it dirty?
We'd all love to see some videos of it starting, and taking it's first run down the strip, especially with some good sound included!

Well what a glorious day today has been , Been hard at it all day but don't seem to have got that much done !!!
My rotating assembly will be back from balancing on monday so today was spent making a fuel pump block off plate from a piece of 5/16" stainless, fitting freeze plugs, refitting the gallery plugs, tapping out all the threads and sorting out all the bolts. Took all day but doesn't look much










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Well been patiently waiting for rotating parts to return from balancing, well the wait is over i get them back in the morning
Been keeping busy though attending to some of the small jobs, My new tin of Glyptal turned up so I got the inside of the block painted, Also managed to squirt a bit of gold flake on the oil pump.










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Starting to think someone upstairs don't like me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got crank back and fitted bearings, open up gasket set and found no rear main seals FFS !!!!

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Originally Posted by roadster32

Starting to think someone upstairs don't like me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Got crank back and fitted bearings, open up gasket set and found no rear main seals FFS !!!!

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....more than likely someone downstairs.....

Awesome work! Are you using a high temp paint or is it just a typical base clear on the engine? I ask because I would like to start spraying my engines with something that will last longer than a poof can job. Thanks and keep up the great work!

Originally Posted by 40FordDeluxe

Awesome work! Are you using a high temp paint or is it just a typical base clear on the engine? I ask because I would like to start spraying my engines with something that will last longer than a poof can job. Thanks and keep up the great work!

I just use 2K auto paint, been doing it this way for the last 30 years, never had it fail Ryan.

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Got some brilliant news this morning my heads are done and gonna be shipped tomorrow, fingers crossed all will go smoothly.

In the meantime the rear main oil seals arrived from Shaun (thanks mate) so assembly was on this weekends agenda, I thought I would get the crank, pistons & rods in the block and degree the cam in but it was 130 degrees inside so rolled it outside, even outside the spanners were getting so hot you couldn't hold them !!!
First job was to gap all the rings which didn't take much time at all, then onto fitting the piston pins in the rods, The rods were setup for pressed pin or full floating, mine are full floating and a little tight so I popped to the machine shop and honed them out slightly to give .0008" clearance, the pins are located by 2 spirolocks either side, they are pesky little things to get in and even worse to get back out again !!!
Crank pulled a nice 40ftlbs on the torque wrench which is what i would expect.























Next job was to get the roller cam in and timing gears fitted so I could get the cam dialed in with a degree wheel, I'm using a hydraulic roller cam so had to make a cam button to keep the cam in the same place in the block, I gave it .060" clearance
For those that don't know a normal flat tappet cam is ground with a slight angle on the lobes which keeps the cam in the block and stops it walking forward, a roller cam is ground flat so needs a can button to keep it in place.
I'm using a Comp Cams Magnum true roller timing set, nicely made set.







I had already machined double keyways into the crank so all that was needed was to mod the oil slinger to slide over both of the keyways.









Virtually complete except for the heads which hopefully will get here sometime next week.





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Getting close now

While awaiting the arrival of my heads I amused myself making a Pro light, I didn't really want one but after this engne costing what it has I think a warning device was a good idea.
I'm amazed by the prices of these things $50 up to hundreds !!! Made mine from scrap stainless from my scrap bin, add an old bulb holder and I got a Pro light for free !!!








Its certainly bright !!!






Gonna do the same with the adjustable shift light next.





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Wow, the pro light turned out awesome! Your engine looks awesome too!