Motor showed up a day early. Very nice. Looks like there was some confusion. It’s an e motor. So much for my rapid recovery.
Is a bummer.
Looks like I need another engine. Sigh.
Ranger
#2
Jim Levie, showing that he is a far better person than perhaps anyone I’ve ever met, is not only going to “loan” me his spare motor for 6 weeks, but he’s driving half of the 9hrs between us to deliver the motor. Saturday morning we’re going to link up in Atl and transfer the motor between trucks.
Given my track record with motors, that’s about as generous as it gets.
Sunday I’ll work my ass off to get the motor swap done. Al K is going to come over and help. At that point I’ll be about out of time because I’ve got family coming into town so there will be very little opportunity to work on the car prior to Roebling.
In late Jun, per a plan made a month ago, I’ll bring the car to Chuck Baader’s and we’ll swap my primary motor that he’s rebuilding. Then Jim’s motor goes back to him.
This will leave me without a spare motor tho. So I’m on the lookout for a spare motor. It, ah, needs to be an “i” motor.
Anyone want an e motor? I’ll give you a good price.
kishg
#3
so your doing all this work so you can swap it again next month? color me baffled 
edit: oh and you just moved upto motor #8 
Ranger
#4
Roger that, motor #8.
If I don’t swap a motor in, I’ll spend the next 6 weeks wandering around the house at night bored out of my skull.
Here’s another thing that went wrong today. My big Harbor Freight air compressor failed a couple days ago. I attempted to take it back hoping that they would have the reciept in their computer. Nope.
I just found the receipt. It’s one week out of warranty. Sigh.
danny325is
#5
Scott,
Not that you need another project.
On the HF compressor, IF I remember you said it just wouldn’t turn on. might be some simple electrical switch or something. I have 2 HF compressors ( little and big) and when my little one over heats it wont turn on for days, then all of a sudden it will start working again.
I am sure you have tried this, there is an reset switch/relay on there.
Ranger
#6
Dude, WTG man. I have the manual for the compressor out in my truck. I just went out and checked it. You’re absolutely right, there’s an overload reset switch hidden on the thing. That may be the issue. A beer for Dan Pereda.
Ranger
#7
Ok, new plan. Instead of Jim driving 9hrs to help me out, and then me not having a spare 6 weeks from now, I’m going to drive up to Durham with the kids tomorrow and fetch a motor from Mike Skeen. It’s the one he used in '07.
Prob 14hrs round trip. With the kids. Just wait until they hear about this.
King_Tut
#8
You are very devoted. I’m not looking forward to the 18 hours round trip to Roebling this month.
csrow
#10
Ranger wrote:
[quote]
Lunatic.[/quote]
Tenacious Lunatic…
Wait, I think there is a name for that…
kishg
#11
csrow wrote:
[quote]Ranger wrote:
[quote]
Lunatic.[/quote]
Tenacious Lunatic…
Wait, I think there is a name for that…[/quote]
ranger…
Ranger
#12
Kids and I are back from the epic 14hr roadtrip to fetch Skeen’s 2007 motor from his folks. To my surprise, it all went like clockwork.
Ranger
#14
Didn’t get much done after I got home. Everyone’s pretty tired. Waterpump and sheetmetal got xferred over. I pulled Mike’s oil pan off and pressure washed the grit out of it.
A couple test fittings and grinding got the crankscraper to fit. Boy, those sure aren’t precision instruments.
I found that I didn’t have an oil pan gasket but to my good fortune I found an autoparts store across town that did.
After carefully cleaning the mating surfaces I put high temp RTV on the bottom of the block and put the scraper on with all bolts. It’ll dry overnight and I’ll put the oil pan on in the morning.
Took all evening and it sure doesn’t seem like I accomplished much.
FARTBREF
#15
is that a Hall Brothers Spec e30 in that avitar??? Better search that car good for hidden porn mags…
JayGolding
#16
FARTBREF wrote:
I wondered why there was a condom wrapper around the cool shirt hook up?!
Ranger
#18
That pinnacle of human expression and male bonding…“Beertech”, perhaps on the wane up North, is alive and strong in the deep South.
Al K spent 7hrs at my place helping me get Skeen’s motor (hereafter referred to as #8) in. Skeen’s motor was pretty stripped so there was a fair amount of work just attaching stuff to it.
Thru sheer stupidity I managed to snap one of the bolts that holds the motor mount piece to the block. I read the torque spec wrong and used the 10mm value instead of the 8mm value. I can’t believe that setting out to torque an 8mm nut to 35ftlbs didn’t raise immed warning bells. Fortunately, 18months of goatscrews, many self-inflicted, have left me with a fine inventory of “oh-shit” tools. A bolt extractor kit made short work of the snapped bolt.
The hardest part, of course, was mating the engine up with the tranny. It didn’t help that the hoist didn’t hold pressure very well. For the latter half of the two hour effort Al had to give the hoist a pump every 20sec or so, while he also jockeyed and jiggled the motor around leftrightupdown and tilt. I spent that hour under the tranny trying to jockey it into position because we found that the tranny being held up by the jack didn’t give us the precise control that we needed.
When we finally got them mated, Al was tired of pumping and being harangued by my frustrated instructions. I emerged from under the car a wreck with my arms shaking from exhaustion from holding the transmission up for so long.
Wife is annoyed with me, unsurprisingly, for ignoring the family. For a while I’ll have to limit the work to late at night when everyone is asleep or I’ll be sleeping on the couch.
King_Tut
#20
Nice work Ranger. Now just imagine me by myself with only 2 floor jacks as aides mounting the transmission in my driveway on jackstands. It’s all about getting the angle right and then some shaking.