The great clean up

Well, Christmas has come and gone for another year.

I note from Sarah's blog, that Warrior's National 3DM has been working for its living over the Christmas break. Wot no T!

In between the socialising bit, I have managed to do a few odd jobs on the engine. The other two cylinder liners are on the move. Unfortunately the 'withdrawal' came to a natural conclusion when the bottom plate of the home-made extractor came up against the bottom of the block. I now have three liners standing proud by about 4". There they will stay until I can get the 1" plate cut to 4.7/8" diameter so that it will follow the liner up in to the block (if you get what I mean).

Another problem I have encountered is the cam followers. They are stuck in the block and are not currently moving. Dr diesel is now doing his work.

You can see the six round followers to the left of the bores.

In the mean time, I took various bit in to work to use the steam cleaner. After a few hours toil, all of the major parts have been well and truly cleaned. I think most of the dirt ended up on me though! I could even be looking at putting a few bits back together in the not to distant future.

The plan is to get the crankcase sorted out so that it, the crankshaft and main/big end bearing shells can be sent of to the machine shop for a grind and re-white metaling in January. While its away I can tinker with a few of the ancillary components (as well as getting the last few bits out of the main block!)

I think it will be a busy 2008!