Dandy Dave

My opinion is that it is starving for oil. On some early engines the oil pump needs to be primed. Your Idea of putting a larger line to feed it, and a check valve sounds like an good idea to me. I assume that this engine does not have any type of flow gauge or oil pressure gauge at all. Without that you have no way of knowing if the oil is moving at all. I would use a gravity drop check valve that matches your line size. I also think that your pistons have been replaced at some point. The expandable oil ring is a dead give-away as it had not been invented yet. Doubling up piston rings is not a big deal and I have seen that in early engines before. It was common to do this when the wider rings were not available. As far as honing it. Use what ever you have on hand. A ball stone hone will do the job faster. A three stone hone will take longer. I use brake clean to wash the stones off from time to time while honing. The stones cut better when they are clean.

Is it a right hand drive car? 😁

Yeah, Tell me about it. My old Chevy Suburban's don't fit well into the parking spaces either. Just a gas guzzling dinosaur still roaming the earth when the weather is right. 🦖

Ouch. I hate it when that happens. 😮

I can rewire a Model A Ford in about 6 Hours. The 1930 Rolls Royce I did last year was 123 and 1/2 hours as it is way more complex. The two I'm working on now will fall somewhere in the middle or less for time.

Your a little short now. Add just shy of $500 for the Olds. The 53 Buick Super rag top I'm working on is way more.

If I was out there on the west coast, and in your neighborhood, I'd be right there with you Jack. It isn't any worse than some old rusty relics I've worked on and made run again. When I was in my early teens I pulled a few apart that never got back together as I was a kid with big dreams and little money to realize them. That still happens to young folks today. I suppose that is why there are unfinished projects on the market all the time. I, like you, will keep on pecking away at the projects until the end of this round on this earth. Afterall, it is not a race, but a hobby folks like you and I enjoy. If some are unfinished at the end it will be no big deal as we had fun doing it. Our heirs will either finish them or find someone that will. At that point it won't really matter. I suppose some will be listed as unfinished projects.

More photos of the harness installation.

Wiring harness being installed in between other stuff. Got it out of the box this afternoon. Rhode Island wiring does a real nice job on the new harnesses they make. The wiring diagrams are large and easy to read.

Progress yesterday. New signal harness soldered to the switch and installed along with the horn wire inside of the steering column. I fished a wire up though the column. I then used string tied to the 6 flat connectors to pull each one through one at a time, Longest one first to shortest. Hooked the mechanics wire to the string and pulled those though first. Took a bit to get the connectors aimed the right way to slide through. Shop table with new harness sets yet to be installed.

After a long northeast winter and a lot of set backs caused by things out of my control I'm finally back on this 53. Got the new wiring harness, which took quite a long time to get back, out of the box and on a shop table. In the box it looked like every color of spaghetti you could think of. Thinking of starting under the dash and steering column and working outward. Hmmm... Wednesday is prince spaghetti day.

My 1915 C-36 Buick gets about 14 MPG.

Thanks, Never did get no number A fer spellin or grammer. 🤓🙃😬

Intrical. Stupid spell check needs to be checked sometimes. I corrected it. The exhaust manifold and head are cast together unlike a separate bolt on type manifold.

NOT MINE. Here's is a 1920's Chevy parts engine I saw on FB market place. I know these are sought after as the head design was one or two years only. If I had one of these early Chevy's I'd be right down there. I can go get it if one of you need it and can't get it right away. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1659967094742859/?ref=product_details&referral_code=marketplace_top_picks&referral_story_type=top_picks

I have not seen one in the wild in a very long time. I use to see some when I was younger and always told a friend that collected them where they were and he would buy them and restore them. I see restored ones for big $$$. 🤪 🙃 Looking a little deeper around the internet I see one Tokheim 850 brought $11,000 and another at Barret Jackson bring $24,000. Wonder how drunk the bidders were that day? 😜

Not sure. The backhoe picked it up with no problem. I would guess 1,000 to 1,500 LBS. at least.

Wonder how many yards of gravel this Dragline bucket scooped up for the local roads we drive on every day? Could not help myself. Had to have it. The price was really right. 😁

Gilbarco gas pump. Concrete still attached. Got to get that heavy hunk off of there.😬

Helping with an estate clean up I've landed a few goodies. Tokheim model 850 Clock Face Gas pump.

I love it when a plan comes together. It all looks good from where I'm sitting. 🙂Nice job. 😃

Do those closed off ports between the exhaust manifold share the chamber that the intake valves are in? They seem rather thin. I would check to see that those are sealed well. Could be a vacuum leak there.

Yup. Spotted that lawn mower right away.

Knowing what Cutting oil does in machine shop equipment over time I would never do that. Had you ever changed the water and oil in one of those systems this thought would never cross your mind. A lot of congealed stinky stuff in the bottom.

I had a 1 HP Gray farm engine years ago. A fellow in the neighborhood had a Gray automobile also. It was sold at an auction in the 1980's. Rex Auctions did the sale. It was about the size of a Model T Ford and had a flathead 4 cylinder engine of similar size and HP. Come to think of it, I haven't seen another Gray car since.