1950 SO project

dick benson · Dec 18, 2014

Bought this nice SO in May, I'm finally getting down to work on it. It had a funny little noise in the engine when I bought it so when I got it home I changed the oil, filter and plugs. After draining what looked like 90 wt oil in the engine and putting in new 30 wt the funny little noise got worse!!

casenut1 · Dec 18, 2014

That's an old trick.... use heavy weight oil to compensate for a mechanical problem.Only temporary thou.

John Saeli · Dec 19, 2014

Dick: What was making the noise?

tractorguy2 · Dec 19, 2014

Did you find new crank bearings for it? I've heard they are very had to find.

dick benson · Dec 19, 2014

The # 2 rod bearing and Crank was bad. I picked up a running engine for a couple hundred bucks. Bearings all look good but I decided to put in rings and do a valve job while I had it on the stand. The pic of engine on hoist was the new engine. It's a 52 SC engine with bigger bore. DB

C. Amick · Dec 19, 2014

Seems like the No. 2 rod bearing is most often the one to go. The last time I had a bad one I just polished down the crank journal with it in the engine and installed the next size smaller bearing. It's still running.

dick benson · Dec 19, 2014

The crank was pretty rough and out of round? DB

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