Saturday, January 31, 2009

8409

Ahh ... that is the number you want to see on your crankshaft, and I got to see it today after getting the heads off and unsticking my motor. At first all I could see was the stamp "14A" and that was not what I was looking for.

Tomorrow I should be able to complete removing the last two cylinders.

Then I'll write about unsticking a Corvair motor. Even though GM manufactured something like 1.8 million of them, they are getting harder to find. William Wynne recommends paying a little more for a motor that rotates easily before you disassemble it. I couldn't find one of those. But I did get motor #1 taken apart, and the crank is now turning enough to get all the connecting rods and cylinders off. More on how to do that, and some encouragement, later on.