Tom_Slater
New Member
Hello All,
I hope you are well. I have a late series 2a that I have been doing a full restoration on. The car is almost complete and I drove it about 150 miles completely fine. It was leaking a bit of oil from crank seal so replaced that and had to replace the head gasket again due to it over heating slightly and loosing compression. (Hopefully fixed)
I replaced the head gasket and re adjusted the tappets and after doing so she fired into life brilliantly not perfect but not far off. Ran it for about 10 minutes and was adjusting the fuel mixture and she suddenly died.
I tried to restart but no luck. I then tired to turn the dog nut clockwise and it is absolutely locked. It will spin completely smoothly in reverse but as soon as you try and turn it back clockwise it jolts and then locks and is impossible to turn any further.
I have tried a few things. One of the things I tried was loosening the conrod bearing ends as I thought they were locked up. Did this and tried to turn the crank with no luck. I inspected the bearings again but they were replaced when I did a rebuild of the engine and were fairly new. They had light scoring on a few so will replace but the crank still would not turn with them loose.
I then did the same with the crank bearings and they were completely fine I have not removed the crank bearing block closest to the bulkhead as this was too difficult to be removed to easy but loosened it and removed the others and the crank still would not turn.
I have also tired to start it with the clutch engaged encase it was a gearbox issue. Still nothing. Only a click from the starter solenoid.
I am a young novice and I am absolutely puzzled so I would be grateful for any recommendations
Thanks,
Tom.
I hope you are well. I have a late series 2a that I have been doing a full restoration on. The car is almost complete and I drove it about 150 miles completely fine. It was leaking a bit of oil from crank seal so replaced that and had to replace the head gasket again due to it over heating slightly and loosing compression. (Hopefully fixed)
I replaced the head gasket and re adjusted the tappets and after doing so she fired into life brilliantly not perfect but not far off. Ran it for about 10 minutes and was adjusting the fuel mixture and she suddenly died.
I tried to restart but no luck. I then tired to turn the dog nut clockwise and it is absolutely locked. It will spin completely smoothly in reverse but as soon as you try and turn it back clockwise it jolts and then locks and is impossible to turn any further.
I have tried a few things. One of the things I tried was loosening the conrod bearing ends as I thought they were locked up. Did this and tried to turn the crank with no luck. I inspected the bearings again but they were replaced when I did a rebuild of the engine and were fairly new. They had light scoring on a few so will replace but the crank still would not turn with them loose.
I then did the same with the crank bearings and they were completely fine I have not removed the crank bearing block closest to the bulkhead as this was too difficult to be removed to easy but loosened it and removed the others and the crank still would not turn.
I have also tired to start it with the clutch engaged encase it was a gearbox issue. Still nothing. Only a click from the starter solenoid.
I am a young novice and I am absolutely puzzled so I would be grateful for any recommendations
Thanks,
Tom.