SHED RACING - Hall Scott Engine Rebuild (Pt 1) 

My easy fix for the doom and gloom rubbish is no more mainstream TV, no radio. It's so good to have You tube channels like Ivans or Netflix docos, brilliant!

I,m a year behind playing catch up but not a second waisted,ivan your a legend pleasure to watch keep em coming

This channel is so interesting, enlightening and entertaining. It is one of the best channels on RU-vid. Keep up the good work guys.

I say this every time I watch - So, I don't mind you for calling me an arse licker or boring repetitive twat. I don't mind because I know Ivan and John make a forgotten world come to life in the most wonderful way. Magnificent stuff.

I am glad you have the channel up and going again. I also am sick to death of the talking heads of gloom on the news - I am glad to stretch the mind onto some thing useful and entertaining. Good onya.....

"You have to make the thing before you can tell it's not going to work". How true!

A man who worked for my father, Paul Rydell, had a Hall Scott engine on a stand at his brother''s house in Midland Park, NJ and used it many years ago to power a racing hydroplane boat he raced on Greenwood Lake sixty or so years ago.

A rocker system swings through an arc and has a rocking influence on the valve stem. That is one reason valve guides wear, a slipping washer sitting on the valve stem helps with this. That is one of the beauties of overhead cam with bucket shims. The buckets take the side loads off the valve and prolong guide and seat life.

So glad you likened these times to an unbelievable disaster movie! It is indeed unbelievable and totally contrived IMHO.

Very nice and thorough work on this wonderful engine. You guys are amazing.

Finally found you again. I had been watching Ivans shed but realised nothing had been posted for nearly a year. Per chance utube recommended shed racing, all is good again :-)

My neighbour was an absolute wiz at most everything machining welding transmissions. He has passed on and we now struggle slowly through some projects he would have breezed through! I am glad I learned a small bit of what he knew.

Good to see you are working on real engines now! If you need any information regarding historic aero engines, then click on the icon

The Rover K-series was the recent "long bolt" engine, love your videos, funny and educational. Better mucking about with things than getting depressed.

It's great to watch such skilled and also knowledgeable individuals, working through. different ..... issue's and problems....... To implement practical... Solutions *

Pleasure watching ur vids.

Great to see you back! I was a bit worried to be honest.

To check the angle for drilling out the valve guide, use a smaller reamer/drill to pull it down through the old guide without damage, with machine off, you will feel if it isnt square. As a;ways another very interesting show, thanks all!

I used a reasonably sized open ended spanner to tap gaskets with the ball bearings for holes, brings back memories. Still make the odd gasket now.

Thanks very much for all the great videos. Cheers from Brisbane Australia

Fantastic stuff! Cannot wait to hear the Hall-Scott fire up... All the very best from the Endless Disaster Movie Canada.

Watching Ivan & John work together, is like watching a well oiled mechanical ballet... Bravo..! Encore...!

Ivan's - where they buy gasket paper by the half acre. Happy New Year gents & many of them : )

good stuff Ivan & John , I always reckon you need old fellas in the work place , they don't just teach you your trade , they also teach you how to talk & behave , thanks Ivan ' another bit of luck that'

well done...engine looks good...the reamed valve guides were nail biting.

Love watching you guys work together 👍

My shops too cold this morning so I stayed in and watched this instead, but you guys looked like you were having so much fun I got all fired up to get back at the Rolls 20/25 that's in for an engine swap. You spoiled my lazy morning. Keep it up, eager for pt. 2

What I love about RU-vid are the characters that gravitate around it. Ivan and his team are prime examples of this phenomenon. Really enjoying the content you guys produce, Have a great year.

I'm so happy to see somebody using modern technology to keep the old ways alive. It's really amazing to watch the type of careful hand work that you do to get everything just perfect. If I were a younger man I would be peering over your shoulder trying to learn everything you could teach me but now generations of younger men can watch you and learn. Thank you so much for sharing your skills and your sense of humor.

These blokes are awesome. It's great to see bearing scrapers and making gaskets from gasket paper. Brings back memories of my apprenticeship in the 1960's. Really enjoying this.

Fascinating to watch Ivan, an impressive old engine, it'll be great to hear and see it run. And as for you Ivan, keep on keeping on, this troubled world needs more old guys with your "can do" attitude.

A real pleasure to see you working on another fab project. A master class in aero engine design. Nothing you do is dull. Looking forward to seeeing more of this.

Absolutely fascinating. If anyone can rebuild a 1914 engine, it's Ivan! (Small point of order - if you're American, it's 'airplane', but for Brits, it's 'aeroplane'! Usually, when talking about engines for aircraft, the term is 'aero engines'.)

This is interesting stuff going on in your place. Thaks for sharring it.🇩🇰🙋‍♂️

There's a great penetrating fluid, it's called Rivolta TPS by Fuchs, Synthetic, high creep and neutral.

Great stuff as usual. Can't wait to hear her run. Many people have forgotten just how much can be accomplished with a small shop and some determination.

Absolutely love your channel and find the content fascinating, educational and utterly entertaining. I have no experience in engines or engineering and just love learning about what you do and why you do certain things. Love it!

Fantastic to see you all again in the workshop , I am like so many full of admiration at your joint abilities , the engineering as always is first class , Can't wait to see the next part of the video , best wishes to you Ivan ,John and not forgetting Josh for the camera work keep it up

Never a dull moment in Ivan's videos. Now to watch part two......

allways interesting 👍

Great to see you hot rodding that Hall-Scott Ivan. Damned interesting engine and application.

Love watching you guys work, makes me realize I am not the only one to put things away and forget where I put them . Keep up the good work , a pleasure to watch .

Ivan you're a genius !!!

Nice work Ivan and not a computer in sight 👍👴🏻

Really enjoy getting to see the inside of these older mechanical machines and how you fellas refurbish and improve them so they will last longer. A lot of mechanics and builders don't understand how much oil pressure is actually required; to much and it robs power, to little and it loses the hydraulic wedge and the engine fails. Thanks for showing this for all the world to see.

Happy healthy new year Ivan and John your videos best on the inter net thank you

Found you !! missed your humour Ivan . Cheers from New Zealand

When I watch your show I realize just how little I know, but you inspire me to keep going. I hope the new year treats all you guys well.

Thank you so much Ivan, John and yiur videographer for taking the time to capture, an explain so well, such interesting engine machining content. It is a windy wet day here in Australia and your video brings both light and knowledge to my day. May you all stay well.and prosper. Thank you.

Glad to have found the proper channel!!! Always interesting to see what’s being worked on!

Ah those valve retainers. I first came across those on a Merlin, great idea if a valve spring breaks but you've had enough of them by the time you've removed 48 of them! Enjoyed my time working with aero engines, as you say the time and effort that went into making them is just incredible, especially when you're looking at something that is over a hundred years old. As always, a pleasure watching you guys at work - always an education.

The way it's bolted together is like a k series but 74 years earlier.Love these vids

Thumbs up.More please.

All the best for the new year, the last two have been a real drag, keep these great videos coming, fascinating how great these old things were so well engineered. I marvel at your ingenuity, thanks for keeping them alive.

Great job lads. Keep em coming. Can’t tell you how much appreciated you are. 👍

Nice machine work on the original cylinder and "head" combo. Your new guides and other improvements just make this old engine that much better. Taking your many years of experience and putting it into all of your builds makes this channel so great! Hoping we all can push forward and go back to a regular style of living. Stay Safe, Be Safe, Enjoy Life!

Thanks - enjoyed your last channel, great to see first principles engineering being applied to solve problems.

Marvellous, cannot wait for part 2.

That was very interesting and informative to watch. That oil seal that you made is very similar to what was used in the Willys engines. It's quite clever and they work quite well. There was a lot of amazing engineering used on those engines. I can't wait to hear it run.

I feel much beter about my use of tiger seal now cheers pal😄😄😄

Your talent and hard work is an inspiration to regular people like myself, I listen to your channel while working on my own projects and while I aspire to get to the depth of knowledge that you have reached I probably won't ,but it is so cool to have a person who is willing to share the knowledge that they have learned through the school of hard knocks, the college whose tuition you can not afford, thanks again...

By far the best video you've done. I'm looking forward to learning more about putting an aero engine in a car. Great channel.

Fantastic all round, love it! Keep up the good work.

Right,i,m halfway.Saving the rest till after tea,BRILLIANT stuff.

Great to see the start of engine rebuild. looking forward to the start -up and part 2. one of the best youtube channels. Keep up the Great work and inspiring us to get out in the workshop.

Simply outstanding video!

What an Engine and seeing what you are doing makes you appreciate your skills. With the odd story along the way love it and totally agree the World needs more Bob's.

i well remember my folks driving down to family get togethers in Oakland and seeing the Hall Scott Motors illuminated sign on their tall long high building on the Oakland estuary, they made gasoline engines for all sorts of applications from Caterpillar tractors to city busses, one of my friend's father had a 6 cylinder aero engine at his shop in Napa and another had busses with flat engines, later I had a foreman in my apprentice shop who had been a boss at the factory, I assume that they had lots of labor problems there as he had a nervous breakdown from dealing with his workers there and migrated to calmer regions in our shop in Napa, I assume that HS did not adapt to Diesel engines and went out of business for that reason, they were still operating in the mid 1950s.

Again, fantastic video. And those old engines are absolutely amazing. Keep up the good work.

Happy New Year to you Ivan et al. Lovely job! Time for me to extract a digit and sort out the Alvis’ starter motor, Spring’s on the way. Can’t agree with you more, the last couple of years have been a real trial. Here’s to (hopefully) getting back to something approaching normal in 2022. Cheers! Rob. 😎👍🍻

Ivan stay safe - and keep doing your thing mate - I'm shedless at the moment and your vids are a joy to behold! Thanks so much for all your hard work and some amazing insights! PS when you going to take the lotus out again - I love that clip with you giving it a bit of welly! :-)

Brilliant...

I really enjoy your channel Ivan. More than anything else just the different ways problems are solved or worked around is fascinating to me. Reminds me of an earlier time and 'can do' attitude. Please keep it going. Cheers 🇦🇺

Thanks for making 2022 a little bit better. Greetings from Denamrk.

Great video,getting better every time.I would like to hear what you know about Les Charlatan and the creation of the racing engine. I have always been fascinated by this story. Thanks for sharing your shed with the world.

Happy New Year! Another great episode thanks!

What a good idea, sleeve the valve guides. As it happens, the valve guides on my 1955 Norton 500 twin were sleeved, in its last rebuild.

Footprint, in Sheffield, is still around. They started in 1760, so the company is older than Ivan! I have a few Footprint tools in my toolboxes. Always good gear.

I love the Aero cars! I could watch these videos all day long…

You have to love all the high tech stuff going on, and in the end it all come down to the shit house scale:) GREAT VIDEO!

I love the engineering being done.

Another top show Ivan. Keep 'em coming.

Welcome back !

😎👍 Thanks for the video!

Gidday mate, great work, oi oi oi🛠

👍From Sweden

30 more years according to Bible. Hahhahaah, join the club and get some laughs. Thanks for the show. Thailand Paul

Happy New Year to all at shed racing, looking forward to hearing this engine firing up 👍🏾

Fantastic work!

Wonderfull !

Another great video look forward to part 2

Wonderful ❤️👍

I am learning so much! My thanks. Really engaging.

Great Video... Love seeing this old stuff brought to life.

Relaxing to watch and really interesting. Cant wait to hear it fire up.

Another fantastic and highly interesting video

Fantastic effort by everyone, thank you!

Dial indicator check crank journals rotation.

Happy New Year, a great start to 2022 with an aero engined car! Best wishes, Dean in Oxfordshire.

I say he's got a good 20 years yet.