06-10-2021, 04:17 PM
Having completed the restoration of my 36 Ruby which is an early type, I feel a need to carry on fettling and tinkering.
Another 7 is out of the question, space and wife will not allow!!
It occurs to me that the only part of Ruby I did not restore myself was the restore and rebuild the engine, this was carried out by a retired marine engineer neighbour who had numerous sevens in his early life and had rebuilt them an many occasions and was a very good engineer.
I also had the rebuilding wheels, re-forging axle eyes, re-coating the steering wheel and re-chroming bright work sub'd out as I simply did not have the means to carry out this work.
And so I am looking to build a spare engine.
Ruby came with a numerous assortment of spares which included 3 engines, all of which were dismantled, 2 of which are 3 bearing and one 2 bearing.
So as Ruby is a 2 bearing that is what I would like to rebuild as a spare.
However the only 2 bearing cranckase I have has suffered a major catastrophe in its previous life and a previous owner has had a large number of aluminium weld "repairs" carried out.
I can see one of the welds is actually cracked and the crack extends below the weld into the base metal.
I think I know what the response will be but assuming these welds can be cleaned up and reworked what other issues should I be wary of, alignment for example??
There is a broken stud at the front of the case where the front bearing is located and there is some damage to the rear lip and I am sure studs will need replacing.
I attach a word doc with some pics of the busted casing, is this simply too far gone??
Denis S
Another 7 is out of the question, space and wife will not allow!!
It occurs to me that the only part of Ruby I did not restore myself was the restore and rebuild the engine, this was carried out by a retired marine engineer neighbour who had numerous sevens in his early life and had rebuilt them an many occasions and was a very good engineer.
I also had the rebuilding wheels, re-forging axle eyes, re-coating the steering wheel and re-chroming bright work sub'd out as I simply did not have the means to carry out this work.
And so I am looking to build a spare engine.
Ruby came with a numerous assortment of spares which included 3 engines, all of which were dismantled, 2 of which are 3 bearing and one 2 bearing.
So as Ruby is a 2 bearing that is what I would like to rebuild as a spare.
However the only 2 bearing cranckase I have has suffered a major catastrophe in its previous life and a previous owner has had a large number of aluminium weld "repairs" carried out.
I can see one of the welds is actually cracked and the crack extends below the weld into the base metal.
I think I know what the response will be but assuming these welds can be cleaned up and reworked what other issues should I be wary of, alignment for example??
There is a broken stud at the front of the case where the front bearing is located and there is some damage to the rear lip and I am sure studs will need replacing.
I attach a word doc with some pics of the busted casing, is this simply too far gone??
Denis S