Petter av2 restoration

Afternoon all I've started the restoration of my petter av2 it had been left out in the elements for years causing it to seize I managed to get the one cylinder free but the other one not a chance so stripped it down and filled the bore with  diesel to soak, both water jackets had suffered from the frost which will be repaired at a later  date

Good luck. How's the AV1 project going?

I'm just waiting for parts to finish the av1 off, I'm surprised how decent the parts are on the av2 I've managed to save the injectors

A update on project av2, the heads have had a decoke and valves regrownd, injectors  currently soaking ready to be rebuilt and tested the injector pump brackets and mechanisms stripped cleaned up and rebuilt working lovely I need to make 2 priming levers, I've started to  clean up the aluminium covers there coming  up lovely  nearly to a mirror finish

A update on the av2, I've taken the chain drive sprocket off the starting shaft which enabled me to inspect the timing gears and governor which are in perfect condition and the governor works lovely , I've then cleaned up the timing cover casing , I've inspected the frost damage on block 2 stripped the paint back to get it ready to take to get repaired as cast welding isn't my speciality, I've scraped and cleaned the sump out the oil had turned to a layer of hard muck on the bottom but persistence and abit of swearing soon sorted that job out so I then decided to mock up the injector pumps to make the pump joiner which will be a nice brass strip, after I finished sorting that out I thought it was time to start painting it first in grey primer and then last night on with the first coat of mid Brunswick green I'm happy how the first coats turned out, the next jobs on it will be to take the rings off and inspect them clean the ring groves out and check the tolerances on the gudgen pin Bush, and to try and free cylinder 1 piston which is still soaking in diesel hopefully with abit of heat thrashing and probably multiple swear words that might teach the neighbor's some new colourful words Haha it should come free to inspect then it will be time to build it back up and hopefully running.

Coming along nicely.  
Your shed looks about as tidy as mine!! I hope Neil(LE) doesn't come to do an inspection or we're both in for a roasting.

Haha its organised chaos in there the best way to be

Update on the av2 project the piston rings are toast the pistons are in good condition, I've started preparing the cylinder blocks to be welded where the frost damage has happened I've drilled the ends of the cracks to prevent it cracking further, I've made a few more gaskets ready for rebuilding

Last night's progress I decided to put it back together to be able to mock up where I need to make coolant, oil, fuel pipes and how long theve got to be, then it will be stripped back down for the blocks to be welded and hopefully then be on the home straight to finishing and hear it running

This weeks progress on the av2 has been working out radiator pipes and getting the multi link belt for the fan to the correct length, making temporary fuel tank brackets, and starting to sort the fuel system pipes to the pumps with the splitter pipe to my own design ( still in prototype stage at the moment) and mapping it down onto paper so I dont forget the dimensions when I make the final piece, its come along way since I got it back in April