Recent content by AKJurnee

Get or borrow a good boroscope and look into the cylinder. Scratches and grooves will be obvious. BTW how much air is blowing out the oil fill when engine is running?

Small Airplane sales are in the tank if that helps any.

If you can hear air in the crankcase from the compression test, your rings are bad or there’s major scoring of the cylinder walls or both.

A Large new piece of cardboard allows one to slide around under the car easier. I only use jacks when working on the wheels and brakes.

I forgot to put the plug stop to hold the oil pump when installing new gaskets, the pump came down with the oil pan. Looked at the pump, inspected it, put it back up with the plug stop thing, timing was fine.

50? My engine sounds like it’s going to grenade itself at that speed. 45 is my sweet spot, and I never take it on the freeway, never drive it at night either, not worth the risk.

40 Deluxe, the OP narrowed it down to a valve that won’t operate properly under running conditions. Possible broken valve spring or sticking valve in the guide.

I’m Glad some you cheap guys aren’t trying to get into aviation! My day job is aviation, looking at some of these prices of model A parts and engines are dirt cheap compared to overpriced airplane stuff! You can buy a brand new Model A engine or an overhauled one for 1/8th or less the price of...

Yeah, I’d pull all 4 plugs, have someone turn it over with the starter and carefully with a leather glove feel if theres any compression. Or use an auto compression gauge tool to be safe. I bet the exhaust valve is sticky.

Possible sticking valve? The spark issue should be easy to solve, especially replacing everything with new.

Thanks guys I’ll reach out to the owner on that website, kinda want to do it on my own as it’s simple, just need the paint codes if possible.

Does anyone have the exact colors for the 1929 New Mexico passenger car license plate? I googled the colors but I read cream background with red letters, but I need the shades of cream and red. I found a original plate but it’s painted obviously by an amateur and wrong colors. Would like to...

I run Walmart Super Tech oil, cheap and a major name brand makes it and it’s the same oil. They did a independent test comparison on it a whole back and they came out suprized it beat some other big name brands…funny. https://youtu.be/j8tpRxQLqU0?si=OOw_PSpszLc106ff

Takes two minutes to remove the sparkplugs, might as well check the plug gaps while your feeler gage tool set is out at that point. With the plugs out the engine is so easy to turn even if you use the fan belt to turn it. BTW , you can legally mail a potato through the USPS by writing a...

Same thing on aviation small orders,what ever happened to just putting it in one of those small thick tan envelopes and slapping a couple of stamps on it?