My biggest thing is why would you crank an engine over with no oil in it... that's a big no no.. then why not prime engine oil system before cranking over and why not check cylinders since it's been sitting for a while..... you could have possibly damaged then engine
Will it burp ...? I very much like Your approach of "gimme a burp to make me wanting to push on, despite all the increasingly brutal obstacles". And I appreciate Your way to repair things more than "restore" them like a lotta 'tubers do it. It doesn't have to be the shiniest of all ever built Chapman .... Loti? ... Lotusses? .... Loten? .... (anyway), has it? That would only reprehend the serious usage of it. It gotta run and go round curves and bends fast enough to make Your midriff vibrate, and scare Your neighbor's son in his 2018 Golf mark nomatter in the same go. A little bit of real true earned patina from the 13 owners helps tremendously with that last task, as experience recurrently shows. 😁Thanks for sharing!
Great work George, as always. I admire how you always manage to pull through, despite of setbacks. Waiting for moment the Lotus posters are for sale in your webshop. Regards from The Netherlands.
The "How Will It Run" genre should be a winner. We all know the end result of "will it run?" - if it doesn't, the video usually won't be posted. It's the _struggle_ to get it to run that's so interesting.
Once the wire feed is gripping and the gas isn’t leaking you can tweak as you go. A flow meter is a great thing for setup and saving gas. m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0wIF4kPrRDs.html
*That was the world our parents enjoyed. They could buy a sports car, drive it for two years and then park it and forget it. My parents bought their first brand-new cars with part-time jobs. Buying a car today requires a small mortgage and a 30% down payment. Remember what was stolen from us.*
It breathed a little fire boys! Well done Soup! Rebuilding the carbs and crankshaft issue will be a fun watch too. One step at a time and the journey will eventually end where it is intended to.
Yeah, I had that crank end float issue on a 912 engine in an Excel. The clutch pedal would suddenly and unpredictably fall away under my foot because the crank was moving fore and aft. Ended up taking the engine apart and machining the block to accept full circle thrust washers. The original engine just uses a half-circle thrust. I had to make the thrust washers (no biggie) because the crank also needed machining and no OEM thrust washers were going to accommodate that extra range. Cheers, and keep at it, though - these engines are very much worth it. 👍
If you rebuild the bottom end remember. Bedford CF engines had the same shells, super cheap but. Lotus cleverly put the tag on the shells the other way around so you had to buy there shells. Marketing ploy I guess.
soak the bores with miracle oil for few days and hand turn (clockwise!), once smooth all way around cycle, remove plugs and spin up to oil pressure with fuel pump disabled - always a good prep IMHO
In my experience. Carbs are completely reliable. The problem is people today are flat out dumb, use ethanol in them and have ZERO clue how to fix things the right way from the beginning. If you use good fuel and use the RIGHT carb parts.. OEM or better for seals and parts. You will go 20 years or more with zero carb issues. Hell you can sometimes get flurosilicone carb parts and hoses and make them resistant to occasional ethanol. People today just SAY things with zero basis, knowledge, or experience..the majprity people just don't have it in them to grasp reality anymore. Anyways great video series thanks for sharing this with the internet.
