Cleaning up a Baja Bug engine

[quote="rsv1cox"]Awoke to snow this morning.  

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How may here make these engines with drives part of your collections?


ARRRRH! Snow!   We have been snow free for a couple of weeks, all the snow and ice dams on the roof have melted. weatherman says we gonna get some b4 the end of this week! Getting spoiled enjoying this "global warming"

I do have a pull start engine in my collection. Just thought it was cool. Had imagined putting it in a small to medium sized boat, take the gear off and install a shaft drive. I bought plans for Dumas "short stuff" so it's in the que.

Nice looking engines, rsv1cox. Quick question: did you boil the Cox with the pull start attached? I picked up a Cox Jeep and I freed the engine up with after run oil but would like to give it a hot antifreeze bath to clean it up(pretty nasty, think it was stored outside in a storage shed) but don't want to ruin the pull start. Thanks!

rsv1cox wrote:How may here make these engines with drives part of your collections?

Well, at least I do Here's a thread from a few months ago about the clean-up of my car engine:

https://www.coxengineforum.com/t10059-mystery-motor-from-an-unknown-vehicle

I assembled this engine with the needle and the cooling element pointing towards a different direction compared to the original arrangement so that it is easier and more compact to store.

I remember that thread Kari, nice clean up on a colorful engine. Mine made it onto my "Enya tree" presently the only non-Enya to do so.  Placed it beside an Enya .09 Car/Helo engine.



And watertrucker, no, I didn't remove the starter mechanism.  It didn't look as nasty as the others I had taken apart and frankly I didn't want to deal with those little pauls on the eccentric.  I just removed the glow head and loosened the case screws and boiled it like that.  I didn't try to pull the starter prior to boiling.  But after the boil I removed the case, immersed it in full strength Simple Green then pulled the starter, then into hot water rinse again operating the starter, blew out with compressed air, then into clean 91% alcohol pulling the starter,more compressed air then a liberal spray of RemOil in all openings.  Smooth as silk now, but the exterior needs some polish.

I have this one coming for Lieven and will ship it as soon as it arrives.









He should have fun cleaning it up.  I just hope the starter mechanism works.  

Bob

getback wrote:  Turned out good Bob , Yeah chunk the back plate in some Hobbies #9 for 1/2 hr. scrub with brush  alh. rinse you may want to replace the stiff intake hose and chuck the tank up in the drill 800 grit is good sander and replace parts as needed to run !! I have one that
s pretty but haven't ran it ...... cant believe U got some more Snow!!   70 here tomorrow

Snow gone this morning Eric and maybe 50 degrees today.  We sit at about 1400 feet above sea level and temps go down as elevation goes up. This Florida boy is used to 25' ASL.

I will try the Hoppees and try to clean that case up, the rest of it looks pretty good.

Bob.

Well, I'm gonna get my $5 Goodwill crockpot going and cook it. Thanks!

Darned if these car engines don't multiply.

Seems that during the night Mrs. Enya and Mr. Cox got together and brought forth these hybrid twins, one with a birthmark.



Bob