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larry@stinescorner

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tonights feature night is by J Everett s suggestion,,,,,,,what was the first engine you ever overhauled?....or the last engine you ever overhauled?
 
First was 59AB Flathead Ford, in 1954. I was 14 and did it with my Grandpa watching over my shoulder. Did it on the yard outside his tool shed.
Last one was Farmall H in heated well lit concrete floor shop with all the floor tools there are (my shop).
And wishing every minute I could go back in time and lay on the grass and cuss with Grandpa. Seems like the bog magnet was the most used tool we shared.
 
Here's the last one. I bought this Oliver Super 55 a year and a half ago with the head off. It had leaked antifreeze in to the oil and all the bearings were junk. The sleeves and block were pitted. I put new sleeves in it,had to fill the pits in the block with JB Weld then I used plumbers putty instead of dish soap when I put them in.

I don't even remember what the first engine I overhauled was. Probably a Farmall H when I was in Jr High School.
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First was a 10 h.p. Briggs and Stratton, I think I was about 12 years old, grandpa watched over my shoulder and walked me through explaining things all the while. Currently I'm overhauling a John Deere H (ironically it's only 12 h.p. lol) wish grandpa was still here to help, that knowledge was priceless!
 
First was the engine in Dads 850 Ford, I was 12.
Dad drove the liners in and out I did the rest. The
last was the 6 cyl Cummins in our 220 Dresser
excavator.
Ron
 
My Dad brought a non-running push lawn mower for me to take apart. He probably found it in the dump and needed me to have something to do, other than tormenting my siblings.

He never told me he was going to make me put it back together, that cagey German. I learned that a single leftover part was going to take time and some know-how as to where it should go.

I finally assembled it, and it did not run. I checked spark by having my little sister hang onto the plug wire while I yanked the rope.

I remember that checking spark using a sister will quickly get your bottom warmed up like s sunburn, swiftly too.

I eventually got it to sputter gas, belch smoke, and slobber oil everywhere. I was proud.

I was probably in the fourth grade.

D.
 
Is this personally, or hired out. I have had a 41 Ford 9-n engine and a Jubillee engine rebuilt. Now working on a Ford 172 engine. joe
 
292 Y block in a 1962 Mercury Monteray.
Silver cadmium inserts, 60 over, chrome PC rings, 5 angle valve job (interesting but more of an exercise than a radical improvement on that old iron. It ran for another 100K miles before I traded it off and didn't use oil then. Jim,
 
The first one was the motor in an 1945 Oliver 70. I was fourteen years old I'm thirty eight now. My great uncle Jack did most of it but he let me help. I wish he was still here to help me out. I still have the tractor!
 
The first engine I ever had to over haul was a B.S. lawn mower engine. Between my bigger borther and me we had ran the mower to death because we had lawn jobs to do.The money we earned had gone to the coast of rebuilding the mower as dad refused to buy a new mower at that time. The last engine I am finishing is a wisconsin air cooled engine for a 1971 model3200A skid steer loader. I had to resleve the cylinders and bring it back to stock sepecs.
 
My first engine was out of a 1960 ford a 292 v8. The last one was an 855 cummins. I worked as a service tech so over a time span of 42 years I overhauled many engines, all brands.
 
First engine was helping my oldest brother with the WD-AC, latest engine was in my 756 INT> dsl.and there have been more than a few inbetween.
 
My first was a Ford 352 V8 I was going to put
in my '60 F100 , replacing the 223 6 cyl. I bought
a worn out engine from a neighbor , and after the
teardown , decided it needed a crank and bearings.
The regrinder wasn't all that careful , and the
journals were larger than marked by a few thous'
After careful cleaning and reassembly , it barely
turned over. We blamed tight rings , and got it
started on 24 volts , it Idled for a bit and
locked up . After teardown , I found the problem ,
and the a/p store replaced the crank and bearings
, and their mechanic laid the crank this time !
Ran great after that !! Last engine was much
easier , C113 in a Super "A" Good runnin' engine
!! Oliver 70 Orchard is next.
 
Last one I did was with my brother last night, we overhauled a
arctic cat powder special 600 snowmobile, didnt take long and
it ran great when done, got 200 miles on it today.
 
Mine was a 1977 small block Chevy 400, I was 24 years old,
and it was alot of fun, I rebuilt it in 1998, and I still have it.
 
My first was a 3 1/2 HP Briggs. Their has been many , many since thin.
I just finished a old Caterpillar D311 a month ago..I am rebuilding a JD tractor now.
 
I rebuilt scads of aircooled VW engines starting when I was 14. I would buy one with a bad engine, do a rebuild a fix it up, then sell it and start over. I did all of them on the dirt floor of the barn and cleaned up the parts with leaded gas and a paint brush. I didn't know enough to be concerned about dirt.

The last was an engine for my Farmall M loader tractor. I'm not any faster at it than I used to be but I am a lot more meticulous! I used to do it for fun but now it is only out of necessity. It is insane how the cost of rebuilding has gone up. I remember when I told everyone that when a rebuild cost me $700 I was done rebuilding engines. That was for ALL new internal parts and block/head machining.
 
Last was 1175 case, sold it to pay for court to get more time with son, can't remember first, I think 300 ford from 80 f100
 
I've done 2 the first was my case 400 diesel and
the last was a friends 504 in his 2394 case.
 
First successful rebuild was a 283 in my brother's
69 camaro convertible - I think I was 14 or 15.

I started a plymouth 383 a year before that, but
never finished it. It had spun a main bearing and
I couldn't afford the machine work. Hell at that
age I couldn't even afford oil for it even if I
got it back together. But I had such high hopes.

Wish I kept that engine, would have loved to have
finished it later in life. But it went into the
dumpster during one of my father's house/yard
cleaning kicks.
 
The first engine that I overhauled was in a 1954 Ford, 223 6cyl. It was using oil so Dad said just put rings and rod bearings in it, and I did. That was at Christmas, late summer and a main let go, so this time I did it right, I rebuilt it! Pulled the engine had it tanked, bored .030 over, milled head .030, ground crank. Put it all back together and installed. Fired it up and oil poured out the back of engine. The machine shop had failed to tighten the welch plug at the rear of engine when they installed the camshaft! Had to pull engine again, took care of that matter, and when finally got every thing buttoned up she ran great. Still ran good when I sold it about four years later. That was not the first time this machine shop had screwed up on something that I had them do, but it was the last, I found another machine shop.
 
First one was a 1949 B jd had the block boerd 0.45 over new pistons ground valves and new rod brgs still own this tractor last one so far put a 466 out of 7720 in to my 4430 have done about 1000 overhauls in thelast 50 years mosty JD s
 
No it didn't Brendon--it looked more like the front on this 36 Dodge Fire truck. it was when i was 15, sure wish i had a pic of that pickup.
BTW---I changed the engine in that 36 Dodge after we blew it going to Competition Drills.
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Did lots of partials valve jobs ect. But did a
complete in chassis on my JD 450B
 
Farmall 200. Put it in the garage on a Friday night,
overhauled it Saturday, and was back using it that evening.
 
First one I rebuilt was a 1953 Chevy 6 cylinder. 235 I think.
The last one with a complete overhaul was a 2 cycle single
cylinder in a 1973 Harley-Davidson golf cart. This is the piston.

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I did some pretty extensive work on this old Dodge too, but too much
to post here. I'll post a link below if you want to see more of it.

Donor engine coming out:
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More pictures here sorry they don't play in order.
All the sheet metal was fixed, not replaced on this project.
And the paint is Valspar Farmall Red with appropriate hardener.
 
The first one I did 'all by myself' was my 1256 in 2000.The
last was a 2.8L V6 to go in a 'hotrod' F-12 this
past winter.I overhauled a Honda Trial 90(twice)
when I was a kid.
 
Can't remember for sure what the first one I rebuilt was, but thinking back I'm pretty sure it was a 4-71 Detroit out of an old Linkbelt excavator. Posted a couple of pics of a D333 CAT I did awhile back in the 'what we do' thread. The latest I built last summer, and was an overhaul on a 5.9 Case/Cummins out of an 850H Case dozer.
 
Little mopar I put together for my truck about 10 years ago. Not the first one, but one I took pictures of anyhow.
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First was in 9th grade, a horozontal shaft lawn mower engine off a Reo mower. Built a manifold to adapt a larger float type carb to it. Last was the tri-power 389 for my '66 GTO in photo. Beautiful engine,was able to leave it standard bore and standard crank. Crane cam,springs and lifters and headers were only non-stock items. With 4 spd and 3:55 posi and street tires went over 100 in the 1/4. With slicks, went 13.20@105.
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First one was a John Deere 3010, I was about 14 and just put in rings and rod bearings. Last one was a N-62 continental out of Allis Chalmers G.
 
helped a friend with his 67 convertible tri-power too - what a car. His was fire engine red, white top/interior. Good God I loved driving around in that thing.

But I like that blue even better.

Do you still have yours?
 
First engine overhaul was a JD 8630 (because #6
piston had a hole in it i could stick my thumb
through), next one was an engine in a Nuffield
tractor, thought it was just a bad head gasket,
turned out to be a line cracked radially about an
inch down from the top, and i have a 5.9 Cummins
waiting for another head gasket... weeping water
out of the rear left corner (again)... new head
studs this time too! maybe that will help....
 
Thanks,JR , had it since 1981 , finished the resto in 2000 , sold in 2009 when these cars were at their highest. Found myself walking around it every day to work on old JD tractors. Can't afford to keep everything and only putting 100 mi a yr on it and family didn't share my entheusiasm so now have JD 2cyl,s and hay ride wagon and camper trailer etc. I had my fun with it but hard to turn down BIG money. RB
 
That's an awesome car! My brother in law had a 66 convertible with the 389 tried power too. Same blue as yours. Too bad he got rid of it.
 
yeah, I hear ya. I love them, but I'd probably have done the same. You can only get so much enjoyment out of such a thing and then it's time to move on.

Glad you got what it was worth. My friend wrapped his around a tree.
 
First- summer 1965. In Special Forces training, Ft. Bragg, NC. 1960 Corvair- first car I ever bought. Shift lever on the dash. Overhauled it in the Motor Pool parking lot. Corvair had a 4 cyl, horizontally opposed system. Split the engine, OH it.....motor sgt set the crank and timing gears for me. Had it 180 degrees out! Blew out the intake, sucked in at the exhaust. Motor sgt felt so bad....he let me work all night inside the motor pool one Saturday.....I got it running before Mass on Sunday morning!
 
Not my first or last, but one that I remember well! Dad and I had an auto repair shop for a short time in 1983. Lady had a Mercury Bobcat station wagon-similar to a Pinto. Had a german V6 in it, and it needed an overhaul! For some reason Dad had me tear it down, which meant I had to put it together, as it was completely unknown to him. Got it all done, one bolt left in the parts pan! Several harsh discussions later it was decided that we had NO idea where it was from, and that we would start it. Never gave any trouble, but to this day I remember that, and how it could have been REALLY bad!
 
Sorry to butt in, but ALL Corvairs had horizontally opposed SIX cylinder engines. CID was 140 in 1960, 145 from 1961 to 1963, and 164 from 1964 to 1969. They never used a 4-cylinder.
 
Not counting lots of resurrected lawn mowers, my
first solo overhaul was our family car, a '62
Bonneville, 389.

I was about 14 or 15, remember sneaking to the
auto supply without a drivers license!

Drove it another 10 years or so, Dad sold it to a
retired preacher, he drove it until he was so
senile he would forget where he was and just park
in the middle of the highway and get out...

Trying to remember the last overhaul, think it was
a 90HP Force outboard for a volunteer fire
department, a freebe.

Haven't done a car engine in a long time, seems
easier and cheaper to find wrecking yard motors.
Really hard to find a trustworthy machine shop
these days.
 
First was a 65 dodge coronet rag top with W block 318 CID in early 80s, last was a 350 chevy that I peiced together to replace a toasted 4.3L in mid 90s. With the 2:21 rear end it couldn't get outa it's own way at a light but could shift from 1st to 2nd around 80MPH w/auto tranny. Never did find top end. Most fun was going into parking garages and setting off car alarms LMAO
 
Got a 3.9 B series with the head leaking coolant to the outside in the front left corner that I've got to get to some time this coming week. The fun thing on this engine is that it's in a Skytrak, which means it's up in a hole under the boom. Needless to say it's getting new head bolts whether it needs them or not. So, 100 miles from home, tight quarters, and limited access to do a head.... (inject sarcasm here....)I just can't wait.......
 
fresh out of USMC engr mech sch, I overhauled a 1948,in 1954, Packard. of course very little hand tools and a whole lot of bravado. was successful and was very lucky. borrowed a ridge-reamer and a valve keeper tool. Otherwise it was all Armstrong. ran well and was very reliable. some more luck. CC
 
First was a 283 Chev that I bought in a junkyard in 1965, to put in a '36 Chev pickup. I had a machine shop do the machine work and install crank, rods and pistons, and I did the rest. I think the engine cost $125 and the machine shop charged $127.

Last was a Model A Ford. Just got done, haven't run it yet. Babbitt looked pretty good (good enough that I wasn't going to put out the $$$ to re-do it). Hope I'm right.
 
First was a Mac 91B1 100CC go kart motor .Did many as we raced them and last was a 410 cu in all aluminum sprint car injected alcohol motor that produced around 900H.P. about 80X more that first one.Being a hot rodder when young and still like cars and tractors most of my projects were camshafts,heads,and broken 4 speeds and rear ends.When I was 16 I had to fix them fast before my Dad wondered why my car wasn't running.It was a lot more fun racing than fixing.
 
Ford FE 390. Nothing spectacular, mild cam, valve
springs, rings, shells, pump, etc. Was restoring a
66 Ford FWD. And along came the big D. Sold the
truck and everything else to survive.
 
Many teardowns and a few cam swaps, but did my first overhaul that actually ran last fall. 39 Allis B, fired in 50' of pull (battery was too flat to spin it). Waited until I was 53 to succeed.
 
You must have been running Muncies like I did. I was taking the first one I owned to have friend work on it. Dad stopped Me and told Me If you are going run them you need to learn to work on them. He was right. Still have a super T10 BW in my garage.
Ron
 
RBnSC you are correct as they were Muncie 4 speeds.I never had any formal training just had to fiqure it out because could not take it to Chevy[or afford to] as some things that were not abuse were under warranty.My parents knew but still questioned me about tire wear.I was more of an assembler than an engine builder as I wanted them to live.I still have a 66 Nova with an L-79 small block but the new supercharged muscle cars are much faster.I have never lost my need for speed even at 70 years old.
 
First one was a 1952 ZAU Minneapolis Moline in 1986 in Vo-Tech. The current one is an M5 MM..if it warms up some more. Have it on the engine stand I built.
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My first real car was a 69 nova and I always wanted a 65 Nova ss. Never could afford one when I found one and could not find one I could afford one. I still have a Chevy II block a 4speed bell housing,oil pan and a like new set of 350 horse pistons and a set of 461 heads just in case.
Ron
 
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