Engine check and assessment - Here's to a long engine life!
Summary
Is the classic car engine healthy or technically in order? If you want a definitive answer to this question and want to know the exact technical condition of a classic car engine, you always have to completely dismantle, clean and measure it. However, with a little experience, its condition can be assessed very reliably even without disassembly. This report proposes an "interim check" for the main engine; add-on parts and assemblies will then be "examined" in another article.
This article contains the following chapters
- From the condition of the engine oil
- Additives - sometimes too much of a good thing
- Background noise
- Pressure in the cylinder
- Warm or cold?
- Crankshaft clearance
- Sound images
- Incontinent?
Estimated reading time: 11min
Preview (beginning of the article)
If the classic car engine is healthy, people are happy. Although this is a modified piece of advertising wisdom, there is a lot of truth in it. But when is the engine healthy - or rather, technically in order? If you want a definitive answer to this question and want to know the exact technical condition of a classic car engine, you always have to completely dismantle, clean and measure it. But with a little experience, its condition can be assessed very reliably even without disassembly. The methods used here are always used when an engine cannot or should not be completely disassembled due to external circumstances, for example when purchasing a vehicle or during an intermediate check. They are aimed at the so-called trunk engine, i.e. the engine block without attachments and units.
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