No wonder it wouldn\'t rev!

I had an old engine lying here that I wanted to get going again. History/condition unknown. I drained the oil (yuk! It must have been in there for a decade!) and cleaned the screen etc. I did a headtorque and tappets, filled it with fresh oil, checked the timing, hooked up a starter, added some fuel and kicked it into life.

It ran, but not very well. It was obvious the heads were leaking, so I pulled them off to get them recoed/machined.

To my amazement, this is what the ports looked like! has anybody seen anything like this?

[ Edited on 4-2-2007 by VWCOOL ]

[ Edited on 4-2-2007 by VWCOOL ]

mmm yummy. think you might of found the problem there dude. (or at least one problem)

Yeah, i can see where that might be an issue.

wonder how many of us have an old 1916 laying around .......

Imagine trying to troubleshoot that one with the engine in a car.....

:jesus:P:P

has it been underwater with leaking heads???

ewww, nasty...:puke

ian.mezz wrote::jesus:P:P

Do you reckon RedEx caused it - or it fixes it?

After a few hours of soaking didn't budge the stuff, I hacked into the ports with a hammer and screwdriver/chisel - yes, really - to clean them up. Took around an hour per head!

Iwish4aSynchro wrote:has it been underwater with leaking heads???

Nah, I could hear them 'choofing' when I cranked it

red x normaly cleans it but that maybe a big ask it looks like one big carbon build up

Hi

I was given a 1300 twin port motor so that I could rebuild it and fit it to my yellow bug when I sold it.

It was as bad as that, maybe worse. What I then found with the motor that casued the problems was that it had about 150 main jet and the manifold pre heaters were corroded so badly that it was sending exhaust gasses down the inlet manifold.

Steve