79 Single cab pickup

Looks like a great project. Good luck with it. Every busted knuckle is worth it.

 

cheeky long shot i know, but if you don't want the plastic pipe on the left of this picture - i'm your man.......

 

If this engine turns out to be badly seized and needing full rebuild i'll be seriously considering Scooby alternative, i'll bear it in mind.

 

I would be interested in the entire engine if you subaroooo it

 

Looking forward to following this along

 

fixed that for you.

 

Been underneath unbolting the engine,
Took a few not very good photos of the chassis,
Looked at the first one, pmsl at the dog doing his aerobics in the background!

Not the best pics but underneath is pretty good,






Engine loose and uncoupled from everything but it's just started to ******* down so I'm out till tomorrow.

 

the dog is just stretching before running after a cat....warm up is important...

 

Dropped the engine,

Then lifted the bus off it.

Took loads of pics so I can remember where stuff goes, then removed injection system

Don't think its run for a while




Then it started to rain!

 

Is that a fuse by your manifold?!!

 

Yep, there was a few in amongst the crap and dirt under the tin!

 

Any idea why the engine is siezed

 

Not yet, rain stopped play but I'm hoping rings rusted to barrels, I'll be fit for nowt tomorrow so might make some more progress Sunday.

 

last time I had an engine through like that, it'd been sat outside in the rain for a long time!!

 

bring the engine is the house ,I had one in my bedroom 4 months before my mum found out...

 

Started stripping the engine today,



Head coming off........... the anticipation,
what will I find?



Fair to say the rings have rusted in the bores!!
I'll do the other side tomorrow, expect it will be the same.

 

wow a lot going on there, don't worry though if you have time, money and the willingness to start and finish job's.
You will be fine. If I was close I would give you a hand. See if anyone else is willing to spare some time on here
that are not to far away. Its a great project and look forward to the progress . Have you done many projects
like this before.

 

The poor motor has been sitting for a long time!. It almost looks like the piston is melted under all the "muck"! Body looks fairly solid, is it?

 

Yeh it's not a problem I know what I'm doing with old motors, my biggest problem at the moment is lack of facilities, but we're working on that.
Always good to get encouragement on here tho.

 

Yes, body not too bad, my camper was worse.