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General Category => Darrin Forum => Topic started by: warren on June 07, 2018, 12:51:00 PM

Title: Please help
Post by: warren on June 07, 2018, 12:51:00 PM
Does anyone have a parts motor or some engine parts laying around. I desperately need a couple of connecting rod bolts and nuts, at least 2, 12 if I can find them. I can not finish assembly of my motor until a get them. Failing that if anyone has a possible source. I have exhausted all sources that I have with no luck. All I can say is please HELP!

Thank you for any help you can provide.

Warren 
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: Gordie on June 12, 2018, 08:06:07 PM
Did you check with our regular club suppliers?  They should all have what you are looking for.
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: MarkH on June 12, 2018, 09:28:21 PM
Dang, I figured you found those long ago!
I just emailed a guy, a long shot.
None of the places I mentioned had them?
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: MarkH on June 12, 2018, 09:52:27 PM
Duane Hayes says he's got 161 parts engines & to email him.

donegoing2002@yahoo.com
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on June 13, 2018, 11:24:46 AM
Thanks Mark, I sent him an email.
I did check every source I could find including the ones you sent me with no luck.
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: kaiserfrazerlibrary on June 13, 2018, 12:05:58 PM
What about Paul Berry at Willys America? What did he have?
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on June 21, 2018, 11:56:54 AM
I sent a message Willys American and they said they didn't have any at this time.
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on June 21, 2018, 12:01:11 PM
Duane Hayes,a reader of the Forum, was able to send me what I needed, they arrived yesterday and they look like they are exactly what I need. Thank you Duane, very much and I will have you piston in the mail, early next week, I still have to find them and I am going out of town for a few days.  Thank you also Mark for the good lead, the second time you have been a lifesaver.
 
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on June 21, 2018, 09:28:05 PM
I am sorry I credited the wrong person for the kind help with the badly needed rod bolts. I should have thanked Gilbert Chestney. Thank you Chestney.
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on July 11, 2018, 12:44:29 PM
This worked so well for the rod bolts I needed, thank you to Gilbert and the group for the list of possible sources. I now need a windshield frame, I do not need the stanchions, mine are ok. My frame has 2 saw cuts that were spot welded back together. The frame flexed at one of these cut locations and now my windshield is cracked. I bought a replacement windshield but I don't want to put it in until I get the frame replaced.

Thanks,

Warren
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on October 18, 2018, 07:07:36 PM
I have come to the conclusion that I need a new flywheel. I had a nice one that I had surfaced when I took my engine in to get the machine work done. I got the flywheel back well before the block and head. I put it away SOMEWHERE and now that I am ready to install it I can not figure out where I put it. I have been looking for weeks and the only solution is to replace it, then I will find the original.
Is the 134 flywheel the same as the 161 flywheel. How many teeth on the flywheel gear, I am hearing 149 or 129.

Thanks

Warren
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: darrin502 on October 19, 2018, 08:30:40 PM
Warren
Are you looking for a Darrin frame?
I have a perfectly modified Allstate frame to fit the Darrin, that I did a few months ago. It includes the transmission cross member.
Lee

Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on October 20, 2018, 12:40:44 PM
Thanks Lee, but I don't need a frame. I should not need a flywheel either if I hadn't put mine away for safekeeping and don't know where that is now. Also, I miss typed, I was trying to ask whether the Darrin uses a 124 or 129 tooth flywheel gear, not a 149 tooth.
Title: Re: Please help
Post by: warren on November 26, 2018, 11:24:26 PM
Finally, replacement flywheel and clutch in place. Mounting the transmission tomorrow and complete painting the engine. I hope to drop engine back in by this weekend