November 5, 2023
Things are progressing on the engine. I noticed the other night that I had forgotten to add the valve stem push rod. After some figuring I did manage to get them into each cylinder.
I used Milliput to add the milled out area's on the case detail. This was a tidiest little task indeed, should pretty convincing once painted. Once I finished the back of the engine, I took a break and started working on how to make the push rod inlets.
Made a jig and cut 9 inlets our of plastic tubing.
Once these were glued into place, I temporally installed the unit to the main case to see how the push rods etc. lined up to the cylinder's.
The push rods enter the lower case at angle as the rod ends up in the center of the case, this did not look right, so back to my resources.
If you look close you can see that the inlets are not dead center of cylinders and the exhaust ports are off center of the milled out case locations as well. This is what's causing the the push rod to enter the case at an angle.
I removed the positioning pin on the part so I could rotate it. With the case that contains the pushrod inlets rotated a few degrees to the left, everything lined up perfectly.
Just a few items that need to get tweaked and then all start laying some paint and bring this stage of the project to completion.
