Hello, I just wanted to say I am starting an A4 rebuild, and very excited about it! I have been reading this site a ton, but only posting a little as I am still quite a newbie with the A4, but learning lots quickly! Thank you all for all the great information and thank you to Moyer for giving us such a great resource!
I just picked up the engine parts from the machine shop today, and am looking forward to getting it all back together. I am sure you will hear a lot from me as I progress. Even though I have the mighty Moyer Manual, I already have a few questions I will post shortly!
Here is a picture of some of the parts, freshly cleaned up by the machine shop, had the cylinders re-bored, 4 new valve seats, the other four reground, valves ground, hot tanked the block and head, new valve seats installed, crank and cam polished... I think that's it. (Head was resurfaced recently and was fine)
I am able to rebuild this engine from a spare while the other engine is still running in the boat, however I am hoping to do the replacement this spring.
Lucky for me, I have a few very smart and helpful helpers to make sure this goes right, cause I am not sure I could do it on my own!
These are pics of tearing the engine down, these are my 9 and 11 year old daughters, who are having a blast helping me. They probably did about 70% of the work to take the engine apart! We built a dingy as a family a couple winters ago, and they did a huge amount of work on that too. It's amazing what they can and will do, how much they learn from it and how much fun they have doing it, as well as the sense of accomplishment and ownership they have in the finished product.
Anyway, enough bragging on my girls, gatta get back to work on the engine. Questions coming soon!
Thanks,
Bryan
I just picked up the engine parts from the machine shop today, and am looking forward to getting it all back together. I am sure you will hear a lot from me as I progress. Even though I have the mighty Moyer Manual, I already have a few questions I will post shortly!
Here is a picture of some of the parts, freshly cleaned up by the machine shop, had the cylinders re-bored, 4 new valve seats, the other four reground, valves ground, hot tanked the block and head, new valve seats installed, crank and cam polished... I think that's it. (Head was resurfaced recently and was fine)
I am able to rebuild this engine from a spare while the other engine is still running in the boat, however I am hoping to do the replacement this spring.
Lucky for me, I have a few very smart and helpful helpers to make sure this goes right, cause I am not sure I could do it on my own!
These are pics of tearing the engine down, these are my 9 and 11 year old daughters, who are having a blast helping me. They probably did about 70% of the work to take the engine apart! We built a dingy as a family a couple winters ago, and they did a huge amount of work on that too. It's amazing what they can and will do, how much they learn from it and how much fun they have doing it, as well as the sense of accomplishment and ownership they have in the finished product.
Anyway, enough bragging on my girls, gatta get back to work on the engine. Questions coming soon!
Thanks,
Bryan
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