{"id":28,"date":"2010-01-17T20:32:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-06-02T06:56:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T14:56:21","slug":"things-that-go-clunk-in-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Things that go CLUNK in the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazingly hard to find a reliable Stag with a reliable Stag engine. Because the cooling system is marginal at best and the timing setup isn&#8217;t &#8220;fire and forget&#8221; like your average small block Chevy, most of them have long since died here in the sunny US.<\/p>\n<p>My Stag-engined Stag ran just fine, but with criminally low oil pressure and some very ominous rumbling sounds. Last June, I stopped the (slow) restoration process to figure out what was wrong with the bottom end. Seven months later, I finally got the sump off and found both the thrust washers floating around in the oil. Obviously this wasn&#8217;t good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_4754s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29\" title=\"IMG_4754s\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.rustycars.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_4754s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oily Goodness, yes? Note the new #3 bearing cap.. straight out of a TR7 as it happens. The actual main bearings were already +0.010&#8243; over, and are hardly worn. The crank was (fortunately) just fine, so it was just a case of meticulously putting everything back together and crossing lots of fingers.<\/p>\n<p>So today, at about 4pm, it finally coughed back into life.. only for me to see that the seven-month lay-up had dried the float chamber seals on one carb, so it spewed neat fuel into a) the engine, and b) the bonnet. Whoops. I&#8217;ll be fixing that before I take this any further, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s amazingly hard to find a reliable Stag with a reliable Stag engine. Because the cooling system is marginal at best and the timing setup isn&#8217;t &#8220;fire and forget&#8221; like your average small block Chevy, most of them have long since died here in the sunny US. My Stag-engined Stag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,76,70,75,16,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rustycars.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}