Magnum swapping the 72 Scamp!
I got down and dirty last weekend and got all the accessories dialed in. Took some creative washer usage to get everything perfect though. Made me doubt if they were actually that lined up previously on the old motor (doubt it). But all belts are perfectly in line now! (this was before I got everything done so it changed a bit but I checked them all)
I had some buddies over and we finished up all the other details, fuel lines, fuel filter, Radiator / fan / shroud in, new trans mount, rigged up a temporary exhaust situation, got the new throttle cable in partially, got the carb on etc.
Did some oil priming for a bit, and realized that mounting plate under the filter wasn't tight enough so got some dripping from there before tightening it down. Got a nice 70-75 ish psi oil pressure with 30wt Lucas break in oil which was reassuring.
Got the distributor lined up as close as I could to 15 btdc and was ready to fire it up. Unfortunately the line coming out of the fuel pump didn't want to cooperate and was spewing some fuel. I ended up using some thread sealer paste on there and was able to fire her up!
Just did about 5 minutes run time because of a couple leaks from (guess what) trans lines, and I must have missed a final tightening on the fan / PS belt because the fan wasn't spinning. so I just let it get up to about 190 degrees water temp @ 2200-2800ish rpm and shut it down. It sounds good though! will get a video up once I can. I also think I need to put a little more torque on the oil filter plate because I saw a little oil coming from that area as well.
I got down and dirty last weekend and got all the accessories dialed in. Took some creative washer usage to get everything perfect though. Made me doubt if they were actually that lined up previously on the old motor (doubt it). But all belts are perfectly in line now! (this was before I got everything done so it changed a bit but I checked them all)
I had some buddies over and we finished up all the other details, fuel lines, fuel filter, Radiator / fan / shroud in, new trans mount, rigged up a temporary exhaust situation, got the new throttle cable in partially, got the carb on etc.
Did some oil priming for a bit, and realized that mounting plate under the filter wasn't tight enough so got some dripping from there before tightening it down. Got a nice 70-75 ish psi oil pressure with 30wt Lucas break in oil which was reassuring.
Got the distributor lined up as close as I could to 15 btdc and was ready to fire it up. Unfortunately the line coming out of the fuel pump didn't want to cooperate and was spewing some fuel. I ended up using some thread sealer paste on there and was able to fire her up!
Just did about 5 minutes run time because of a couple leaks from (guess what) trans lines, and I must have missed a final tightening on the fan / PS belt because the fan wasn't spinning. so I just let it get up to about 190 degrees water temp @ 2200-2800ish rpm and shut it down. It sounds good though! will get a video up once I can. I also think I need to put a little more torque on the oil filter plate because I saw a little oil coming from that area as well.
