Stripping the Engine of External Components

Since taking out the engine it was time to strip the engine of its external components such as the manifolds, carburettors, coolant pipes and hoses, clutch assembly, timing cover and the flywheel. Many of these nuts and bolts were rusted on after 50 years. It took a lot of elbow grease in order to get these to be able to turn and come loose again. After we finished taking the large components of the engine off we were able to move on to pulling the cylinder head and removing the oil pan.

Engine as it was when pulled from the car

 

 

Fiddling with the carburettor nuts prior to removal

Removing the carburettor was increasingly difficult to the fact that the nuts were severely corroded and were not that large so it was difficult to remove them without damaging the nuts. We used a half inch socket with a pipe on the end to increase the leverage and sure enough it did the job.



Removing timing cover

 

 



Engine block without manifolds

The engine manifolds were an interesting part to work on because of the fact that both the exhaust and intake manifolds were one part rather than the usual two. These bolts were extremely tight and did not like to come loose. In one case we needed to use the flame torch to heat it up and loosen it off.

 One of the many coolant pipes on the engine