This is the engine from the Camper Van that seized. I will take it home to play with and try to find out what happened and maybe rebuild it as a project. The doner engine is almost ready to install now and maybe we will be mobile this week?  Some shakedown driving of course to be sure all is ok after the major surgery~!

We miss the van and our nomad life on the road. 

As the Mercury is now uncomfortable on my back for more than 45 minutes, we looked at some SUV's and found this nice 2006 Rinkon (Use Asian accent)  Nice comfortable seats and nice vehicle for 9000 dollars but found they have mechanical problems and think best to spend money on the van instead and drive it more.  Pat needs to learn to drive the van but the turning radius is something that most women don't understand. Click the arrow to see the video.

 

 

 

 

Charles Roggeven can you see the heads just shampooed?  Waddaya tink? Will dey werk?

 

The Heads are refurbished and back at the shop for install on the engine. We will take the intake manifold and carburetor off the camper and use it on the donor engine. Will try to determine why the engine failed on our trip. Suspect it had something to do with the last repair job at Ice Cold Air.

Will check on the van tomorrow to see how the work is progressing.

Bought a Used Engine Stand today

 90 dollars on Craigslist

The Donor Engine will need some work. Will have the heads done and a new timing chain and got a gasket kit today too.

 Dirty Beast to clean up.  What colour to paint?

Both Vans at the Shop Now.

Had to tow the Camper there of course.

The Donor with Engine Ready to Pull.

I will drive up and check progress today. Hope to get a pressure washer and clean up the camper engine bay and the new engine... maybe some paint too.

 

Blackie the Donor Van

The New Black Van is an engine and transmission Donor only. Its an '87 like our camper and the engine runs strong and the transmission was just rebuilt so we will pull both together for the transplant. "Blackie" is noisy as it's running a dual header exhaust and it might be hot rodded a bit.  We will find out more as we progress. Right now rains and flooding have put a halt on moving both of them.  I will probably pull and recon the heads while its out. We did a wet/dry compression test and one cylinder is leaking some on both tests so we think a valve not seating properly. 

The van was used by a couple to go fishing.. Many things do not work so it it will be discarded after removing the good bits. Tires look good but I have new ones on the camper. Will pull some parts to use as spares before the goes to the junkyard. A place nearby has given me a quote of 1300.00 to do the transplant and other things will be  on top of that.

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