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More info but not closer to solution: - checked upper RIley valve train and all is moving clearances are still where the were when I set...
My 15 year old son and I were on a troubleshooting drive yesterday in our the '31 CCPU we have been rebuilding over the past couple of years. The...
I pulled the oil pan yesterday to see what happened. My original hypothesis was confirmed. The crankshaft sheared between the 3rd and 4th...
MOre info to the drama I am going through from my ride home on Monday in the Tudor. Took off the side cover of the timing gears, placed the car...
I took some time to work on some of the solutions to find more symptoms towards a solution. Here is what I found. 1) I loosened the alternator...
Decided to drive my 1930 Tudor Seadn to work today. It is a nice 25 mile drive along two lane country roads. It bgan to rain this morning hafl way...
Riley Two Port engine in the 1930 CCPU is now running and this is my first pressureixed engine. My question is how do I keep the oil under the...
Bill, I have the standard 1.600 exhauxt valves. The head looks as though it may have shifted during casting. I remeber reading somewhere that...
After spending some time in the light with the Riley Head on the bench, I think I am going to take it to the machine shop that willed the head...
The Riley OHV head come off this afternoon. It gave me some fits until I place a screw driver on the lifter and rotated the engine and the head...
The Riley head will be coming off the weekend unless soemthing happens by morning. After pulling the exhaust manifold tonite and feeling around...
More things learned as I could not well enough alone tonite: I redid the compression checks and found the following: 1) 0# 2) 100# 3) 100# 4) 0#...
Update to the troubleshooting of my Riley Two Port engine that started and now does not want to: tonite I removed the side cover on thr engine...
last weekend I posted about my newly rebuilt engine that ran upon initial start up and then after sitting for 3 days did not want to start....
new discovery, on finicky engine. I reset the timing to TDC, made sure all the plugs and coil wires were seated. choked the carb and tried to...
At this time the engine will not run at all. I replaced the petronix that experienced the back fire with another one I had on the shelf that came...
A few additions to the original post: The distributor is a 12 volt FSI Ignitions centrifigal advance electonic distributor with no condensor, the...
New Engine starts then does not ---- I have a recently rebuilt Model A Ford engine in my 30 CCPU. The engine is an inserted, pressurized MOdel...
97, Thank you for the link. This is exactly what I was looking for. I know have more than new paper weight. Dave
I was replacing the radiator hose on my '30 Turdor that has a water temperature gauge with a probe that goes in the metal tube insert in the upper...
Riley Two Port OHV discovery: A the end of last month I posted a question about water leaking out from between block and head of new unstarted...
I thought in the past I read or heard somewhere that there was aman from Washington State who was making copper clad gaskets for Riley Two Prt and...
I went with the solid copper gasket because that is what came from the engine builder. I do have a couple of the composition gaskets that Charlie...
I just replaced the stock Model A Ford Engine in my 1930 Pickup with an inserted presurized balanced Model A Ford Engine topped with a Charlie...
I am just finishing the installation of a Riley Two Port engine in my '31 A Pickup and have a question about the valves in the head. What should...
On the back of the January 2008, Vol. 17.3 Secrets of Speed magazine is a Riley Two Port based Model B engine built by Bob Baas of Alexandria, MN...
45 in a few weeks. Been staring at bangers since I could walk (the Christmas parade in Ft Worth with all the bangers in them was a highlight of...
I just finished replacing the stock Model A engine in my 1930 CCPU with a rebuilt Riley Two Port inserted and pressurized Model A Ford engine. I...
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