The engine got torn down. As I had mentioned I pinned the crank with a tapered pin. I added an oil level plug to the side of the crankcase. I put the mounting holes in the crankcase and base. I made up a dummy shaft to run the oil pump to check it out, it puts out plenty of oil. I gapped the piston rings and installed them on the pistons. I made up gaskets, cleaned all the parts up and reassembled it.
After putting it all back together I chucked the crank in my lathe and starting off at slow speed and ran it for about 1/2 hour. I then increased the speed a little bedding in all the parts and rings. I didn't have the magnet put in place in the timing pocket and the oil came pouring out of there while I was running it. I jammed a piece of wooden dowel in the hole while I finished putting some time on the engine.
Over the years I have bought numerous ignition systems and every time I buy one I always buy an extra magnet or two. The problem is I didn't mark which was the south pole on them. The Hall effect transistor will only work off that pole. I have some extra Hall transistors so I added leads to one and hooked it to my ignition system to check everything out and mark all of the magnets (6) properly.
With that done I epoxied the magnet into the timing cover and while I was at it I filled the drain back hole that I had thought I would need. If some oil gets in there it won't hurt anything and I can always take the cover off to wipe it out.
Another 1/2 hour or so of running in on the lathe and I'll finish mounting the intake manifold and carb. I
I have to add another post on my ignition box for the second plug wire. The last coil I bought from Jerry Howell was the dual lead one, how fortunate, the don't sell them any longer.
It looks like sometime next week it'll be ready to run. Now I'm really getting excited.
I'm attaching several pictures of my timing disc and Hall trigger setup. You can see the magnet through the window in the disc.
George
