Re: hornet project disaster

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Well, don't scuttle the ship until you know for sure how big the hole is. No banging around or you'd have mentioned it, so no hole in the block. It likely is a cracked head or the head was slapped on without a gasket. I've seen stranger things happen! It's possible they got in a hurry to move it and just stuck the head on temporarily and forgot about it??? Hope you find something simple like that! 

On May 27, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> My engine is junk. Bought it as a "used motor", that allegedly ran
> strong in some jeep, friend of the person I bought it from. Had to
> change oilpans, bottom end looked OK as reported earlier (didn't
> take bearing caps off).
> 
> 
> Today was fire-up day! Not two hours ago. Primed oil, static-set
> spark, etc. Filled with plain water, got fuel, air, spark, etc no
> firing... some odd belching in the radiator...  a few minutes
> later water AND oil pouring from the back of the block/head!  This
> is without firing once. All the water ended up in the crankcase.
> Took off the manifolds, water coming out all (int, exh) ports.
> 
> It's like it was assembled with no headgasket or something. Even a
> bad gasket/cracked head doesn't leak in all cylinders, all at
> once! Since it never fired (didn't get that far) it's got to be a
> huge (if simple) problem.
> 
> So now it's sitting in the yard with oil+water in the crankcase,
> and the soonest I can pull and disassemble it is probably Monday,
> journals will rust (if they were any good to begin with) so I'll
> probably need a full rebuild, which I don't have the money for.
> 
> I had hints of trouble along the way... it wasn't stored right,
> and had a lot of grit in the valve train area. THe block was
> recently boiled out (water jacket spotless, new freeze plugs,
> crankcase clean), the bottom of the bores perfect, clean,
> crosshatching, but there were some minor buggered bolts. Paint is
> all flaking, under the silver is an ugly (but well-adhered)
> yellow.
> 
> I didn't notice any oil leaks after spinning up the oil pump
> (w/old points distrib minus the gear), but when I took the
> manifolds off, many long oil drip runs down the block! WTF!
> 
> When I got this motor, I didn't pull the head or retorque because
> it was alleged to be a recently-rebuilt running motor. There was
> paint over the headbolts (I looked). All I can figure is it's
> owner lunched it somehow or it was thrown together with spare
> parts to sell off.
> 
> Total f'ing disaster.
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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