The Cleveland Engine I bought had a little tick maybe a click.. that’s what I was told …..
The owner really didn’t know anything about it aside the the engine was a recent rebuild- soooo I bought it. I’m going to building up an engine (all Cleveland) but I still have my original engine in my car…
so I put the engine on the engine stand, Drain oil.. And Then took the intake manifold off… And there it was… A brass tube With the push rod going through the middle… Just casually hanging there.
You can see the circumference of seven more brass tubes Around the lifter bores… Somebody did sleeve the lifter bores… But just on the passenger side…
Scratching my head and then
Taking the heads off.. pulling lifters (flat tapped hydraulic) out… The other remaining seven bushings protrude out between zero and 2 mm out of the lifter bores.. And after close inspection, you can tell that the bushings actually turned inside the block and on five of the seven lifters there oil feed hole is not aligned with the oil channel anymore (+ The bushing who left the building)
Weekend…. Thinking
🤔 sooo if the bushing is not there, there is no reason for the oil not to just squirt out of the way to large lifter bore of the block.. about 2mm all the way around the lifter.. emptiness - the reason for putting bushings in the lifter bores was that the feed for the lifters was way to large.. looking in there it’s over 1/4”.. and that could lead to the bottom end starving of oil (-pressure-)
Monday morning… flip engine over, cracking open big end connecting rod #1 … and
the crankshaft has marks.. bearing shells worn thru the first layer.. I just found it very interesting - good intentions very badly executed….
Small little brass filings can be found in the cylinder head… and their siblings probably made way down…
well, my engine project is in the way…
and I’m learning so much more about Cleveland engines… and I found what I want to build… build this engine again.. properly - this engine was a
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