Senior Project: Austin healey 1962 spridget.

Jan
21st

Wed

over one of the hurtles

i ended up slimming down the 6point wrench (more than i had done before) and it fit pretty good, and to achieve perfect fit i did one more run to the grinder to slim it down even more. i really didn’t think that it would be able to take the torque with so much of the wrench missing but it did and i was able to get all the nuts off the connecting rods studs.

now that i have done that the crank shaft was able to be removed, but now the issue that i have is that i cant get the pistons out. when trying to push them out the bottom they get caught on the block purposely and I’m not to sure how I’m going to get around this delima yet. maybe my mentor will have some advice. ill post pictures later on tonight

Nov
29th

Sat

wrench on the nut still not fitting. i guess im gunna try to grind it down more. ill see if that works.

this is the amount of clearance that i have to work with. it looks like a lot but its really not

ended up grinding down the wrench in attempt to get the bolts out of the connecting rod sleeve bearing

taking off the oil pick up and the crank shaft sleves (not sure the techical name)

took off the crank pully, and cam chain cover.

draining the oil. the engines shreading pounds, its pretty naked right now

removed the alternator, intake and exhaust manifolds,carbs, and the cam and head.

once we started ripping apart the engine it started to become diffucult to take pictures. thats why theres such a big gap between the pictures

engine (kinda) mounted to the stand