greencom
Junior Member
Hi everyone,
I have a question for the engine gurus here. I found a 1929 engine on Craigslist, it was described as having good compression and no obvious defects, I figured it would be a great rebuildable block to have as a spare for my 1930 tudor that I've had for 27 years now. I got it home and removed the head, it looks great with a tiny hint of ridge at the top, no cracks that I could see anywhere. I looked into the exhaust ports and found something troubling, the valve guide bosses have chunks out of them from the top, it looks like somebody replaced the guides with a ham handed technique and smacked the bosses a bit. My question is this... does this damage render the block non rebuildable? It looks like the remainder of the bosses have enough beef left on them but I'm not an expert. I was thinking of just smoothing outthe chunked out areas with a Dremel and hope for the best. The engine cost only $150 so I won't be out a fortune if is is scrap.
Thank you!
I have a question for the engine gurus here. I found a 1929 engine on Craigslist, it was described as having good compression and no obvious defects, I figured it would be a great rebuildable block to have as a spare for my 1930 tudor that I've had for 27 years now. I got it home and removed the head, it looks great with a tiny hint of ridge at the top, no cracks that I could see anywhere. I looked into the exhaust ports and found something troubling, the valve guide bosses have chunks out of them from the top, it looks like somebody replaced the guides with a ham handed technique and smacked the bosses a bit. My question is this... does this damage render the block non rebuildable? It looks like the remainder of the bosses have enough beef left on them but I'm not an expert. I was thinking of just smoothing outthe chunked out areas with a Dremel and hope for the best. The engine cost only $150 so I won't be out a fortune if is is scrap.
Thank you!
