NOS Disaster - Almost

[Oldcarnut]

I bought a freshly rebuilt engine for my 60 Vert. from a private sale. Hand cranked it over and it felt great. It came with a lot of parts, carb, distributor, and an oil pump drive shaft that was broken off on one end. When I started to get the engine ready for installation and inserted the new oil pump drive shaft, I said a few nasty words when I heard it hit the bottom of the oil pan! Pulled the oil pan & retrieved the drive shaft. With the engine upside down I noticed the broken off piece of the old oil pump drive shaft. Then I understood why the new shaft went to the bottom of the pan. Next thing was to try to turn the oil pump by hand with a socket and an extension. It was locked up solid. Removed and disassembled the pump. The factory grease inside the pump was hard as a rock! Lots of soaking in gas and brushing finally got the new pump to work. Better to find the problem now than later!

[frank58]

So much for "freshly rebuilt".....good thing you found the problem.

[Oldcarnut]

I think whoever rebuilt it bought a NOS oil pump for the rebuild.
The engine looks just rebuilt with the oil pan off.

[Oldcarnut]

Same engine more problems the freshly rebuilt engine for my 60 Vert, had a rod knock and low oil pressure. Pulled the engine, removed the pan and found all of the connecting rod bearings were loose on the crankshaft. After a lot of investigation, I found the rod journals were .030 under, not the .010 written on the crankshaft. Both the main and rod journals were .030 under. So much for a cheap engine, and I don't have the contact info to give the guy that sold it to me a piece of my mind!
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[frank58]

are the journals still in good shape? do they look freshly ground?

[Oldcarnut]

Yes! we checked every thing.

[cuul59]

Just a test…please ignore.

[YellowRose]

Just a Test to check posting.