VCCA Home Forums GENERAL DISCUSSION New User Forum Trying to identify 1920's truck I just aquired

Well I got the engine completely torn down. Now is the time I have to decide if I'm goi ng to spend some money to rebuild this engine or pass it on to someone else. I wasn't to worried until I got it down enough to look at the bearings. I know having them replaced is expensive. Here is a list of what I've found.
1. New rotor
2. New water pump. Impeller is gone.
3. Valve seats on exhaust burnt completely away.
4. Pressure plate frozen. May be able to free it up.
4. Piston very loose in cylinder.
5. Rear bottom main bearing in three pieces.
6. Clutch completely gone. Rivets worn out and plates just rolling around.
6. One rod bearing shattered and most missing.
7. Camshaft lobes are worn down in the center quite a lot.

I have Kanters catalog and can find most of the parts but as I said the bearings are worrisome.
Can anyone provide some words of encouragement it advise as to where to go to from here?

Hi Rick,

I'm in the middle of tearing down three 1928 engines to hopefully get enough good parts to build up one engine. Since this is my first voyage into such a project, I won't offer an opinion about what you should do.

However, I do think that you need to do a bunch of research in order to make an informed decision whether to rebuild what you have, take a chance on buying another used engine, or something in between.

To that end, I highly recommend that you join the VCCA. There are a LOT of technical articles that will help educate you about these lovely old machines. The premier one is 'School is in Session', where master mechanic Ray Holland goes through a rebuild of a 1928 engine.

Another huge benefit of being a VCCA member is that you can use the Search Function of the web site. Many of the questions that you can think of have been asked before and their answers are posted in a forum. You just have to find them.

Cheers, Dean