Engine rebuild with no former experience........

Just a teaser.

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Just a teaser.

 

You like to "mess" around, do you? ... coming a bit from the North?
Fantastic build and a great video. Hats off to your work. It's amazing what Brits can achieve, once they're liberated from the continent

Kind regards
Thomas

Here is the main feature.

Hi Jim,

congrats it is running! I dared to change your link to a direct embed. You can do yourself via clicking on video icon (2nd from right), slect Youtube as provider and then add the Youtube ID from v=...

Wow, Jim, I´m really impressed!
Great to follow your work steps and see the perfect result!

Good luck for the rest of your project.
 

5 month, 12 days,
engine and engine bay fully restored. !!
Great Job !! Respekt !!

Great work Jim,

It’s been so much fun following the progress, but what an amazing feeling it must be for you to fire her up for the first time!

Looking forward to the finishing off and the first ride

Congratulations!
The teaser reminds me a bit to the engine in "Das Boot". But the U-boat engine was running at normal speed then

Cheers,
Lutz

I am really impressed Jim. Good work, everything documented (the failures as well) and a happy end. Sounds like a fairy tale. I enjoyed and read everything with pleasure. Thanks for sharing this with us in every little detail. BTW, I am a little bit jealous about your passion and courage doing all this work.

Thumbs up, mate!

As Karl Valentin said.....

"everything is said, but not from everybody "

I can only ad my admiration.

Kalli

Congrats Jim.

I appreciated your updates from day to day. Hope You start a new project quite soon.

Bernd

This morning I.........


Fitted heat shrink tubing to the left bank of spark plug cables.





Fitted the new lower mounts for the engine shocks.





Filled the engine with coolant.





Then restarted the engine and watched for leaks, there were three, bottom of the oil cooler, niped up, coolant feed hose to radiator, nipped up and this fuel line on the warm up regulator also nipped up.





Next I added a further 4.5l of tranmission fluid to the transmission then checked the ignition timing. It was pretty close due to the old witness marks.









I then went out for a short drive, 200m up and down my street, I couldn't go too far as neither the bonnet or front bumper were fitted. All went well, no problems at all.


Last of all I touched up a couple of small paint chips, some 2k clear with a bit of base coat mixed in.






Tomorrow I'll refit the bonnet and bumper but I can't go for a proper drive yet as all the main roads near me are completely covered in salt, we have had about 10 nights below freezing and virtually no rain, just a few snow flurries. The local council salts the roads here every time sub zero temps are forecast and this weather is due to go on for another week or so.

I fitted the lower grill this morning.



Then the spoiler.



I couldn't refit the air filter box in this state.



Stripped.



Primed.



Ahhhh. not enough paint left, I ordered more that should arrive tomorrow.



Bonnet fitted.



Bumper and grill tomorrow.

Hi Jim,

one thing is for sure: You have to come and show this car on our 50th anniversary party of 107 series on Hockenheimring in fall !

The ring should be okay. There is no danger of driving on the wrong side

More activity today...

Fitted the grill.



Time for a tidy up.



Keep or sell........



That's better.



I need to find a space for the old transmission, I can't bring myself to get rid of it.



Getting ready to fit the bumper.



Bumper and fog lights fitted.



Air filer box painted.




 

Does anyone know the part numbers for the plenum grill rivets? Four of the central 3mm pegs went missing.



Plenum grills fitted.



Chrome windscreen trim fitted.



Just the air filer box, glove box and passenger kick panel to fit tommorow and that will be the job done.

Hello jim,
here the part number for the expanding rivet A0009902292
I admire your work on the 450 SL.

I took the car out for a shake down test drive, 10 miles or so of mixed driving but no WOT yet. Stopped at the local news agent and picked up a classic car magazine. May edition of "Practical Classics".

(Volker, please delete the picture if you feel it violates any copyright laws)

Just when I thought the job was over, I found that the drivers window switch was totally frozen, ~£30 for a second hand one.





Then took off the rear wheels of my 6 year old Golf to get new tyres fitted. It took a sledge hammer to get the wheels off, they were stuck to the hubs with corossion. The rears were still the original tyres and have never been off before.


What a state for a six year old car.





Look at the brake hose banjo bolt!!!





Sorting out this mess will be my next job.

A real shame! Quality made i Germany .....
The probably pressed their suppliers so far until they get this kind of quality.

Cheers,
Lutz