[The Glademister]

Today it was just me and a type 4 engine in a wrestling match. I didn't whip it completely but enough to find it's true colors. The engine tins came grudgingly and are mostly okay. The uppers need some metal work but with some TLC it could be called a complete set. The alternator looks okay but probably needs to be rebuilt. The starter feels silky smooth and was probably replaced at some point. The external pulley on the fan was interesting. I suppose that's for an AC compressor. That assemble came off well and might be of value to someone doing AC conversion. The oil cooler looks really nice inside and with some external cleaning is probably good to go again. When I got the fan out, I found some wildlife (see photo 3) inside the fan housing which is also good to reuse. One head was missing a valve cover so those rockers were pretty rusty. I got all the rockers, push rods and tubes out. When I went to pull the transmission I had a real hard time. That joker is only coming off the engine case about 3/4" no matter how much prying, shaking and cursing I do. I suspect the spline shaft is rusted into the friction plate. If I can rotate the crank and remove the pressure plate bolts through the starter hole, I should be able to separate. So I went to the heads and of course the 3 cheese head screws on the under tins are rusted so I ground off the center screw and bent the tins back to get the heads off. Cylinders 1 & 2 are a real mess with some kind of biology experiment in them. #2 exhaust valve was laying in the cylinder but that happened while inert. Cylinders 3 & 4 actually look pretty good though. Both heads could be rebuilt and have some value. So to get the tranny off I'll have to pull the cylinders (1 & 2 will be problematic) and hopefully spin the crank. The goal here is to have a decent GC case for rebuild. It's sure not letting this be an easy tear down though.

Also, the last photo shows the exhaust with heat exchangers. They look pretty good with some material missing where the pipes cross under the tin. If someone needs those, PM me.