1954 Rolls Royce Crate engine
 

I found this very enjoyable and maybe some of you fellas will too! Very Satisfying

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That was interesting. It’s crazy that he was able to fired up so easily.

Very cool... And surprising. I guess the old ways (engine preserving) still work.

That was fun to watch!

That was cool. I admit I skipped a few minutes in the middle. He put a lot of work into something that is essentially useless to him, so I can relate. :)

I have a REO boat motor from the early '50s that has never been run. I had the lawnmower version on my first GoKart. People keep asking why I don't fire it up and see if it runs. What's the point? I don't have a boat, and you can't revirginate a motor after it's been run.

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I'm only about half way through. Super cool to get that time capsule of a motor and have it in essentially pristine condition.

As cool as the video is, Charlie (his GSD) was possibly the best part. "He's the ball dad. Throw it. Throw it!"

Finally finished this video. Very cool, and amazing. It's a darn shame he or someone doesn't have something to put this motor in.

When I first started watching the video for some reason I thought it was a diesel engine and couldn't figure out why he was messing with spark plugs.
That was a great video. Nice that he took the care to not hurt it by just adding oil and gas without looking into it. Amazing that it still has the cross hatching on the bores. I'd say it's basically new with run at the factory time on it only.
Thanks for sharing it here.

I know an El Camino that engine could have gone in a few years ago...

I only saw the first 20 minutes. What did the black specks on the cylinder walls turn out to be? He got it running well?

Incredibly smooth running engine. I guess a huge flywheel, harmonic balancer and metal fan help. Also, I didn't think it was possible for zip ties to work as a fan belt and last any longer than a few seconds or minutes. They never cease to amaze.

I love old engines and their lack of vac hoses, computers, and emission equipment.

Cool vid, thanks

That persistent dog with his pine cone was the best part of the video!

GSD don’t care.

A guy I used to work with broke a fan belt out on a road trip. He had his wife take off her pantyhose and he made a fan belt out of that so he could drive to a parts store!

Ha! My buddy did the same thing with his wife!

Just "stuff", possibly that had come in through open valves. In the video it looked like pitting to me, but then once he got the motor freed up, the action of the pistons moving up and down seemed to "wipe" all of the stuff off of the cylinder walls.

He let acetone and ATF soak in the cylinders for several days. He pulled the pressure plate and got the motor freed up (prybar on the ring teeth).
He drained the oil, water, and acetone and ATF, and pulled the oil pan. He cleaned out the oil pan, made a new gasket and put it back.
He got the sparkplugs (had to order from England). He made an adapter (out of a cast iron plumbing 90º elbow) to put a downdraft carb on the sidedraft intake manifold. He figured out the wiring for the starter and had to free up the mechanism by greasing and exercising it.

Once he had all of that done, he fired it up, and it started faster than expected (fired right up!). He let it run for a few seconds, and then rigged up some "coolant" (used several zip ties for a "fan belt" for the water pump. It started right up again, and he ran it until the thermostat opened. It ran and idled really well. It was quite amazing.

Yep, the zip ties working shocked me. I was expecting there to be more drag on the waterpump than the zip ties would withstand.

I'm guessing the fact that the motor was relatively low powered and VERY heavy had a lot to do with the smoothness.

Yep, Charlie the GSD is awesome.

Appreciate the recap! Now I can watch a movie instead.