Brian's long suffering engine replacement update

[bevans6]

I slid the new engine in today.  Only around 300 hours to get it ready and 1 hour to do the deed.  As always I do all my work alone, so no pictures of me pushing it in with the little tractor on the neato dolly.

[bevans6]

Couple more pictures.  last one is just in case someone doesn't believe that there is absolutely no room above the engine in an MC-5...   There is 1/4" clearance over the top of the air compressor when you are sliding it it.

Brian

[artvonne]

  Your really tempting me Brian, really. Looks pretty good.

[bevans6]

Just so you know, I spent around $3K on  it, not including the engine.  That is parts, exhaust manifolds to the turbo, new compressor, gaskets, building the dolly, the crane, the engine stands, the chain hoist, etc.  Don't do it unless you have to, it is not a job to trifle with or have a bunch of fun with.  As I said, I did the whole thing by myself, alone, and not having ever done it before I surely took longer than I really could have, but no reason to rush and have to do it over.  Many new hoses, and you can see where I put the priming pump.

Brian

[lostagain]

Looks great Brian! So you ended up installing the priming pump in line. Looks nice and simple. Congratulations! It is a great feeling driving what you built yourself... Make sure you do a video of starting it up first time. We all want to see it.

JC

[rcbeam]

Brian:  Congratulations... and you've got SOOOO much more courage than me... and to do it alone to boot.

[luvrbus]

Looking good there Brian,I am going to give you a little advice take it or leave but I never start a unknown or rebuilt engine without removing 1 valve cover and use a pair of Vise Grips on the fuel rod just a safety precaution you can control it if something happens fwiw Don does the same JMW

good luck 

[bevans6]

Thank you Clifford, i was waiting on your word.  The feeling of satisfaction of getting this far is indescribable.  The effort of the work is ridiculous, I made 10 new hoses this morning alone before I stopped for lunch and then started to pull it out of the garage.  I have watched videos of people starting engines and I guarantee you I will have the valve cover off and the vise grips on and with the prime pump in line that fuel cutoff will work no doubt!  I re-ran the rack yesterday and all seems fine but there is nothing like a fail-safe.  I continually remind myself that I have never done this before and I am relying on the manuals in a big big way...

Thanks.  For an awful lot.  You and Don have helped me a lot, I study your  posts and drag the fruit out of the bran...  Brian