Vintage Don
Well Oiled
Well, @Willys Overland aside from your linguistic skills - I was really hoping you might have further insights into this non-ribbed cylinder head. Like what it might be from....
I messed around with it a while today, cleaning it up. At this point in the game, that's all I'm going to do with it - no visit to the Machine Shop, at least for now. Until the mission comes into focus more.
It's clear that what I mistook originally on the casting date for a "1" at the end is not really anything - it's just a divot after the "10-10" date, with no year indicated.
But it all cleaned up pretty good.
I had bought a radiator from @shade and taken it to the radiator shop recently. There was a tag on it that it had been previously re-cored at some point in the past.
Got lucky with that, and the shop got it back into shape without needing to do that job again. It's flowing fine, leaks fixed, etc. And I spent a little time making it purdy. Got new hoses etc waiting for it to go back in.
Still body-working the shroud extension, though!
Getting there. Haha. At least it's almost round again, but obviously a ways to go yet.
Pulled the manifolds as mentioned previously, to be able to get the remnants of the old exhaust off. So after fighting the broken studs (only two, but pretty stubborn), I took the exhaust manifold and got it coated with some kind of super-duper ceramic stuff. And I sandblasted the intake side at home here. And got the heat riser freed up and working. So those are ready to go on. I'll paint the intake first of course.
And the manifolds will need pipes, got all that now.
I popped for the reproduction original style clamps and hangers with it.
And a few hundred bucks into various things that will be needed - to make it 6 Volts and all "right" again. Cables, hoses, plugs and wires, and lots more.
Lots of time spent chasing down the "unobtainium" side shift components, still. Finally scored the linkages from the bottom of the column ears that go back to the transmission; and a floor cover plate with the little 'bump' for clearance for the transmission breather. (This was early T-90 days, before the trans and transfer case shared gear oil - Phil would approve! haha).
Those parts came in pretty rough, they had been out in the weather for a few decades.
But they cleaned up fine, after just the first efforts at that.
So maybe all this help explains why it's going kinda slow on rebuilding that other transfer case......
I messed around with it a while today, cleaning it up. At this point in the game, that's all I'm going to do with it - no visit to the Machine Shop, at least for now. Until the mission comes into focus more.
It's clear that what I mistook originally on the casting date for a "1" at the end is not really anything - it's just a divot after the "10-10" date, with no year indicated.
But it all cleaned up pretty good.
I had bought a radiator from @shade and taken it to the radiator shop recently. There was a tag on it that it had been previously re-cored at some point in the past.
Got lucky with that, and the shop got it back into shape without needing to do that job again. It's flowing fine, leaks fixed, etc. And I spent a little time making it purdy. Got new hoses etc waiting for it to go back in.
Still body-working the shroud extension, though!
Getting there. Haha. At least it's almost round again, but obviously a ways to go yet.
Pulled the manifolds as mentioned previously, to be able to get the remnants of the old exhaust off. So after fighting the broken studs (only two, but pretty stubborn), I took the exhaust manifold and got it coated with some kind of super-duper ceramic stuff. And I sandblasted the intake side at home here. And got the heat riser freed up and working. So those are ready to go on. I'll paint the intake first of course.
And the manifolds will need pipes, got all that now.
I popped for the reproduction original style clamps and hangers with it.
And a few hundred bucks into various things that will be needed - to make it 6 Volts and all "right" again. Cables, hoses, plugs and wires, and lots more.
Lots of time spent chasing down the "unobtainium" side shift components, still. Finally scored the linkages from the bottom of the column ears that go back to the transmission; and a floor cover plate with the little 'bump' for clearance for the transmission breather. (This was early T-90 days, before the trans and transfer case shared gear oil - Phil would approve! haha).
Those parts came in pretty rough, they had been out in the weather for a few decades.
But they cleaned up fine, after just the first efforts at that.
So maybe all this help explains why it's going kinda slow on rebuilding that other transfer case......
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