1982 C-85 Black Hoodie

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

Sorry, should have been more specific… pointing to area in the pic below:

[pfrederi 17,741]

Fuel pump gasket   Looks like a plastic pump they use a thin red odd shaped o ring type seal. make sure it stayed in place a touch  grease may help hold it.  If there are flaws in the block sealing surface they are not very forgiving. You might try a regular fuel pump gasket first, then the thin red  o ring seal in addition...

Edited May 27, 2021 by pfrederi

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

I’ll check that out… thank you @pfrederi.

 

Seems like a lot of oil for a fuel pump gasket…? 
 

Going along fine then the engine started steadily bogging, then quit with a crunch… now just spins with starter motor, seems like without any resistance… if that makes sense…

 

will investigate…

 

 

 

 

[WHX?? 48,828]

Oh oh ....sounds like maybe a rod went ...possible ventilated block ? Oh no say it ain't so. You did check the oil didn’t you? Time to pop the head and see if piston moves up and down but I fear the worst from what you are saying Sylvia. I don't like the crunch sound.  Hopefully I'm dead nuts wrong 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

22 minutes ago, WHX24 said:

Oh oh ....sounds like maybe a rod went ...possible ventilated block ? Oh no say it ain't so. You did check the oil didn’t you? Time to pop the head and see if piston moves up and down but I fear the worst from what you are saying Sylvia. I don't like the crunch sound.  Hopefully I'm dead nuts wrong 

That's what I fear... Yes I changed the oil and verified its level... (It actually wasn't that bad). Didn't seem to be burning oil either...

Was running perfectly and then boom...

 

[WHX?? 48,828]

Yikes ... pop the head guy let's see what shakes. Let's just keep in mind all is not lost tho. 

[pfrederi 17,741]

That was a lot of cosmetic work before finding out if  the engine was sound...

[WHX?? 48,828]

Sylvia is a tuff one Paul, for a girl ,  and she knows we got his back! 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

50 minutes ago, pfrederi said:

That was a lot of cosmetic work before finding out if  the engine was sound...

 

She was a no spark special. I enjoy bringing them back to life... Pretty easy really.

 

Points, condenser, plug wire and coil and she fired right up and ran great... Probably about an hour of trouble free run time... No reason to think any other issues...

 

This is not the end... One way or another, I'll have her pulling my train around this Summer! 

[Thor27 769]

I got one of those little shaker plate motors under my bench you can have, probably not worth the cost to ship it though. 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

5 hours ago, Thor27 said:

I got one of those little shaker plate motors under my bench you can have, probably not worth the cost to ship it though. 

 

Wow!

Very kind of you!

 

You may be right on shipping costs, let me dig into this and see what comes up…

 

Really appreciate your generous offer!

[squonk 41,150]

Have someone drag an engine back from the show.

[Maxwell-8 4,277]

Did the engine run lean? 

 

Why would it blow up? 

 

Strange location to bust thru the block if it trow a rod. 

[squonk 41,150]

If the rod hit the cam, that's the side for a hole.

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

Gotta pull things apart and see what’s what…

[WHX?? 48,828]

Yah let us know what shakes maybe we can dig up something at the BS or Dan and I know a guy that had some NOS 181 blocks. He still may have one. 

[WHX?? 48,828]

2 hours ago, Maxwell-8 said:

Why would it blow up? 

Number of reasons.... ran in he past with little to no oil, scored big end, fatigued rod, abusive PO.....  it happens all too often.  

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

Toast for breakfast…

 

No butter… 

 

No jam…

 

 

 

[Gregor 4,846]

OK  We gotta see the inside of that thing. That seems like an odd spot to me.A little Elmers glue, call it a day.

[WHX?? 48,828]

Crapola  ... nothing to do with the issue Sylvia but did the fuel pump have an offset arm on it? 

4 minutes ago, Gregor said:

. That seems like an odd spot to me

Agreed Greg.... one would of thought the cam would have snapped but protected that area? 

[Gregor 4,846]

Valve stem snapped?

 

[WHX?? 48,828]

2 minutes ago, Gregor said:

Valve stem snapped?

 

 

23 minutes ago, Gregor said:

little Elmers glue,

ok... JB weld! 

Not off topic here but this is what a PO did to a K91 block I have. Some kind of epoxy on the inside. How it ever broke here is beyond me. 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,598]

Well… I’m thinking JB weld might work… then again maybe not…

 

Oh well…

 

 

[WHX?? 48,828]

Triple crapola...  yep best off looking for a donor motor now ....  you'd have too much into that one. 

[Gregor 4,846]

doo doo dooooo....doo doo doooooooo. In case you can't tell. I'm playing taps.