The Canary Files: 1969 911T reworked.

[mohrgan]

Excellent! I have only been "luke"warm at best towards the new Star Wars movie up until the last week or so. Actually looking forward to it now!

Hopefully you can relax, unwind, and spend more time on the family and car during the holiday! Cheers!

[kav]

With the Canary on ice for the past year almost I attempted to get my eldest daughter Ruby interested in the car. She is the complete polar opposite to her sister when it comes to anything 'boy' related. She never wanted to ride in the Canary and would physically cry when I told her I was dropping her and her sister off at school in it!

I bribed her into going through all the history that came with the car filing it in chronological order and presenting it in a binder. For her efforts she was to get a hoodie for her favorite store 'Ivivva' (which is Lululemon for kids if you believe it!). Anyway she really got into it and enjoyed the process learning the history and asking questions about the maintenance. I was thrilled and asked her if she would like go for a ride when it's back together and she can change the gears like her younger sister? She turned to me without any hesitation and replied, "No thanks, I wouldn't be seen dead in that thing especially in this jacket".

Hmmmm.....







Cheers

-Kav

[kav]

Excellent! I have only been "luke"warm at best towards the new Star Wars movie up until the last week or so. Actually looking forward to it now!

Hopefully you can relax, unwind, and spend more time on the family and car during the holiday! Cheers!

Thanks Chris I will!

[kav]

I managed to clean up the transmission and remove the throwout bearing ready to install the new one. I will also change the fluid to $wepco. That's all I'm doing to the transmission for now, it shifted well when it was in the car so fingers crossed!





Talking of transmissions the Silver Bullet was making a grinding noise when pulling away from the lights so I opened her up to take a look. The bell housing (on the floor in this picture) had glazed over causing it to slip. I gave it a sand with 220 paper and a clean as well as the shoes. While I was in there I change the belt and variator weights. Fixed!



I think I'm going to go for the high torque starter and put the old one on the shelf, I will clean it up once the car is back together and I have some time on my hands (yeah right!)





Lily and I started blasting the engine tin ready for powder coating. This is such a satisfying job! I could do this for a living (if it paid big money and I could retire in two years!)



I heard a loud hissing noise coming from Dave (the 60 gallon compressor) and as I touched the shut off valve it exploded in half and 60 gallons of compressed air at 150psi came out like a F15's afterburner! I instantly shit my pants and was just very thankful I had bolted the thing to the garage floor! That could have been a very expensive and dangerous situation! I learned the hard way that the Husky shut off valve is garbage!



I bought a parts washer from Amazon, first thing to go in there are my pants!



Cheers.

-Kav.

[Bert]

Impressive work on the transmission. What method did you use to clean it up?

[kav]

Thank you sir! Power washer did most of the heavy lifting then wire brushes with engine degreaser got the rest! (outside, that stuff is lethal to the lungs!)

Cheers

-Kav.

[Harvey Weidman]

[QUOTE=kav;843738] I heard a loud hissing noise coming from Dave (the 60 gallon compressor) and as I touched the shut off valve it exploded in half and 60 gallons of compressed air at 150psi came out like a F15's afterburner! I instantly shit my pants and was just very thankful I had bolted the thing to the garage floor! That could have been a very expensive and dangerous situation! I learned the hard way that the Husky shut off valve is garbage!



Hey Kav, I have had the same scary problem with my garage compressor.
I was advised by the compressor shop to put an 90 deg elbow down, then a good gate valve and a coupler.
Anyway, the order isn't as important as the 90 deg elbow.......
The elbow will help with the weight of the line on the valve.
JMHO
H

[kav]

[QUOTE=Harvey Weidman;844122]

I heard a loud hissing noise coming from Dave (the 60 gallon compressor) and as I touched the shut off valve it exploded in half and 60 gallons of compressed air at 150psi came out like a F15's afterburner! I instantly shit my pants and was just very thankful I had bolted the thing to the garage floor! That could have been a very expensive and dangerous situation! I learned the hard way that the Husky shut off valve is garbage!



Hey Kav, I have had the same scary problem with my garage compressor.
I was advised by the compressor shop to put an 90 deg elbow down, then a good gate valve and a coupler.
Anyway, the order isn't as important as the 90 deg elbow.......
The elbow will help with the weight of the line on the valve.
JMHO
H

That is some great advise Harvey, I will do that!


Cheers.

-Kav.

[kav]

Getting the engine apart is my number one priority so I can find out what the issue is and how much time and money it will take to get the Canary back on the road. I was hoping for a top end rebuild only but the more I look at this engine the more I'm entertaining the thought of going through the whole process and splitting the cases as it does have just shy of 200,000 miles on it. I've heard other people say that these bottom ends are bullet proof and my lack of horse power is not putting a whole lot of stress on the internals. What to do?

I bought some specialty tools and went to town, I made another video to document and encourage hopefully.

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Removed the oil feed lines to the chain tensioners.



Removed the timing chain covers and tried out my new tools, the P202 & P203.



This step gave me a few sleepless nights but the left side retaining nut came off without much drama. I did loosen the rocker arms from the valves incase something went wrong.



I wish I could say the same for the right side. This nut did not want to budge! I had to use my floor jack handle on the end of the P203 as leverage, my old torque wrench holding the P202 was strapped to the case between the case studs and I got primal on it's arse! (not sure what that means)



Before removing the chain sprocket I noted there was no dowel pin? Then I realized why, something went wrong in here.



I found the missing tooth in the chain housing, this is not a good sign of things to come.



Removed all of the head stud bolts and we'll take the camshaft housing and heads off the cylinders as one unit.



The state of the heads, they have seen some action alright!



The pistons weren't much better.



The amount of gunk build up is unbelievable! I'm amazed this thing even ran!



Cheers.

-Kav.

[matsleight]

Great stuff!