Just pulled a pair of bearing caps.
The a main bearing and journal looks good as well as a rod bearing and journal. I'll assume for now that the rest are fine too.
The whole inside is as dry as a the proverbial popcorn fart, but does not appear to be damaged by the little bit of surface rust.
Next is to pull a head and take a peak. Then I'll either pull all of them to clean the cylinders, or clean them the best I can with the heads on. Once I have all the dirt and rust out of the cylinders I can start soaking the pistons to get them unstuck. I have already applied PB Blaster from the bottom side.
I also have a fair amount of work to do on the oil pan, rust removal and straighting.
Anyone else with a V12, can you please send me a picture of the bottom most sump on the oil pan, it will be helpful for the reconstruction of mine.
In the literature I have on the twin six it shows a bolt on cover on the very bottom of the oil pan, anyone have one like this? Mine is just stamped steel for all of it. I will try to heat and straighten, but I may end up cutting it off, making a new sump, and TIG weld it to the rest of the pan.
Also, any ideas or leads on a sturdy but cheap trailer or axle, around 3,000lb + capacity, single axle, preferably drop axle so I can keep the weight low. I would not mind finding just an axle and springs and I would make the rest.
This is interesting,
Grigg
