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This engine will never be reliable, the work needed to ensure that is above what I am willing to pay. It would need an overbore and new pistons and I don't want to spend somewhere around 1200Euro on that. I have another engine, a 2.8 that I am planning to spend a bit more time and cash on, but it is difficult to justify spending so much money on an old engine. There are always some more important projects in the garden or house. My vacation plans went down the drain so we will be on holiday in Norway instead of Denmark. It is a bummer, but the silver lining is that we probably will have lousy weather and I can spend some time in the garage instead of painting the house or making a larger decking :-) My son thought I should find a cooler color for the car, I said I wanted it green and he approved.
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The engine in the car was not in a good shape but was put together some time ago with some new bearings, piston rings and gaskets. It was very hard to turn the engine over using a spanner even without the sparkplugs in. This killed the mojo a bit and progress stopped. I also noticed a pinging sound when I turned the engine over. A small metallic ping at a certain point in the revolution. I was going to leave iet as the oilpan was on and tourqued up, and the engine only had so much life laft anyway. But then I read goldnrusts engine saga which is a bit similar to my story, and I took notice of homersimpsons comment about following the user manual and checing the engine rotation for each step you take. I had followed the user manual, but i torqued up everyting befor I noticed how tight the engine was. I decided to remove the oilpan and chech the torque. After loosening the bolts I turned on the crank to investigate the pinging sound. I was afraid it something major, but in the end foud that it was a small washer on the six edged axle connecting the oil pump and distributor. The distributor is driving the oil pump and to avoid this hex-axle beeing lifted from the pump when removing the distributor, there is a small washer pressed onto the axle. This washer was not positioned where it sholuld so the cranshaft was touching it each time it revolved. I pushed the washer back to where it is supposed to be and the sound was gone. I torqued up the main bearing, checking the rotaton as I went along, then I torqued up the conrod bearings also. Last time I used the maximum torque, this time I went a bit lower and what du you know, the engine is easier to turn over. Success! I put the oil pan back on and the engine is a bit closer to working again, now I just need to get on with fixing the engin compartment and get it ready for the engine.
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Wow, truly a wonderful story! It is always pleasent when your children surprise you with accomplishing more than you thougth possible. My eldest daughter made it to university last year, who would have thought that some years ago when she almost failed math? I guess you can lower your shoulders a bit, your daughter will make it, she has proven that, and your car can behave when it is needed. Nice pictures. I really hope you get to enjoy the car during this summer, and that you and your family keeps Corona free and in good health!
Thanks for the update, always pleasent to see Granada in the forum index.
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Glad to read that your car is covering the miles without any problems, for the time beeing at least. If you clock up enough kilometres on shorter trips, it should indicate that it would handle a longer trip. Me and some friends went on a 900km round trip to a Granada meeting in my old car, the green one back in 98. We got from Bergen to Gol and back, not without issues, but nothing major. The car was pulling to the right when driving and violently to the left on braking. In addition it had a major brake judder and oil and coolant leakages. On the return I could retighten almost every bolt on the engine, but we got home more or less safely. I used the car a bit after that and corrected the faults as I had the time to do it.
Enjoying the car is important, as often as you can or else there is no reason for having it in the first place.
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Wow, I felt like a little boy again, exited about the sound and the acceleration. I really need to get my own car back on the road! I really enjoyed the soundtrack this car presents. You have the low down burble, and the high revving sound at the top. I actually had a similar exhaust sound in my old Granada, the green one, but that was down to leaking rusty pipes and was not intentionally. Still great fun, having a car that sounded like big V8 at tickover and a highly tunded NA engine on high revs.
GLad to read that the car is behaving as it should and that you have increasing confidence. A lot can and will go wrong after a rebuild of an old car, this you have experienced, but the reward is worth i, I think :-)
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Apr 28, 2020 10:05:53 GMT
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Looking at the tyre wear this Turbo Saab must have seen some action. Cool little car, never heard of them before.
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Thank you for the response, I thought I had seen a model with a boot space and a hatch.
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This is a good looking car, but as a family man I must ask. Is there no boot on this car? No way to bring along a bit of luggage for the weekends in the countryside? I would have thougt that there was a bit of luggage space in the rear, but I cannot see a hatch. Interresting thread by the way. I was surprised to see all the patchwork this car has seen and how much work is needed to put it right again.
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Apr 27, 2020 11:00:38 GMT
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This area has been repaired earlier. I believe that the car has been fixed in a garage in its early life as the section where the wing is attached is actually connected ia pretty decent way with what seems to be original parts. Then later on, as the repair probably wasn't treated properly, some hobby mechanic has welded and glued pieces of steel in place to get it through its MOT. I hope to make it solid again. There is little rust besides what I have cut away, on the A post that is. I have a lot on the rest of the car, but I will get to it when I get to it.
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As mentioned, the engine had developed a head gasket failure and some cooling water had made the cylinder rust a bit. Engine out and ready for further inspection. I had to scrape away quite a lot of oil and grit, on the plus side, the block was not rusty on the outside. I had performed a bit of surgery on the kick panel ant thought I should have a look at the parts that seemd to be in good contition, oh how I was wrong. PO had tacked and glued the plates on. On the plus side, they came of easily enough :-) It escalated quickly. As on many of the RR projects, the POs makes a mess that has to be rectified later on.
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Wow, that was a pretty crusty project. I really hope you will gewt it roadworthy becase it looks like a quite special car. It is good to see that there are people ouy there who are not afraid to take on these hopless cases. Keep up the good work.
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Thank you for your support Alex. The best mojo support is reading about the projects on RR. There are so many increadibly rusty and worn down projects similar to mine in here, and so many hard working people grinding away getting their dream car back on the road. It is inspiring. Of course I have a sweetspot for you car, beeing a Granada, so I always read your posts. As mentioned earlier, the enginge was a bit tired, in fact it was more than tired. It has been neglected by PO and probably run on cheap oil with refilling of oil when needed, rather than changing oil regularly. There was a lot of oil on the utside and inside. The head gasket has obviously been leaking a bit and there was some coolant in the cylinders that had created a bit of pitting in the bores. The Piston rings were worn and also some of the bearings had seen better times. I talked to a car mechanic about the state of the engine and his proffesional opinion was to chuck it all together and get to use the car again. It would not be a reliable engine butr the important thing is to use the car and not have it just standing in the garage. I went for this solution, new rings, gaskets and bearings, but I never got the engine back in the car. I started to poke a b\it in the rust on the panel behind the front wing, in front of the door. There was a small hole the suddenly was a big hole, an then it escalated.
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Apr 25, 2020 19:16:57 GMT
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Life for inn the way for progress om this old Ford. Work, kids house and garden always get higher priority than my hobby. I see that a lot og people have some free time now with the world shutting down. I had hoped for a bit of Granada time but as I am an engineer working in an office, I am obliged to work from home. I am expected to work a full week from home, and that is no problem as i save the commute. However, i have to kids living at home and one og them need home Schooling, som i addition to work I have to teach. Still I have managed to make a tiny bit of progress. Rust is an issue and one of the previous owners got the car through MOT with sine bodging and quick rust repairs. Unfortuneately, Welding was exchanged for silicone. But I see that many others cope with old bodges, and so will I.
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Dec 17, 2019 11:34:25 GMT
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have you considered installing a Scorpio steering rack? They might be easier to source. You need ta alter the front subframe a bit, weld in two tabs to bolt through. A guy in Norway did this several years ago, I think the number of rotations from lock to lock is fewer so it is kind of a quick rack. Really hope you get to spend some quality time in your car next year!
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Good to see that you have plans to get the Granada in shape before the winter really sets in. Getting the alignment done by someone who owns a Granada must be a plus, I am sure of that. These DAF33 looks like death traps, but also great fun, at least for a short while. It is klear that the world has moved on and cars have improved. They really seem basic.
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Sept 25, 2019 4:31:00 GMT
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Impressive work on the heat treatment, produce own bits and pieces bit.I would never have thought about heat treating and annealing wire to make these small items. Really enjoying reading this thread. The gearbox saga is epic.
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Sept 20, 2019 7:30:58 GMT
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These racing cars remind me of an old Donald duck cartoon where he raced in something similar, Always thought they were made up, but now I see, both chassi, the lack of safety and the type of engine was more or less correct :-) This flexi band spring setup on the gray car, was that common or some bacyard engineering? I see how it will keep the car suspended, but it seems a bit unsafe. What happens if one of the plastic stris brake?
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Sept 12, 2019 13:04:14 GMT
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Mixed emotions here..... Happy.... that Pete has his car back Sad..... that I won't being learning more paint/body techniques from this thread Worried..... that something is going to fall from those high shelves !! What he said :-)
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Sept 9, 2019 18:19:29 GMT
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Sad to hear. Condolences to you all.
Geir
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Sept 3, 2019 12:07:44 GMT
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You have a lot on your plate for the time beeing, that is clear. Hopefully you can still get some quality time in your Granada at some point in the not to distant future. At least the car won't go anywhere on its own and will be waiting for you in the garage when you feel like tinkering a bit.
Best wishes.
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