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In the bottom two photos, I have three issues to deal with.

1. The seatings for the Main bearings are hand filed and are oversize, in order to ensure that they are both in line I will probably machine out the seatings so they have square bottoms this will allow me to machine a suitable piece of brass as the main bearing journals.

2. The holes on the seating for the main bearings are not aligned, I will drill these out and plug.

3. On the left side there is a step on the engine standard seating also on measuring the height it has not been filed even giving varying heights, I will re-machine this soleplate just enough to clean it up around .5 mm(.015",I believe this should not make a difference as long as the measurements for the bearing holes are as per the drawing.

Edited By Jim K on 11/10/2022 11:48:05

Edited By Jim K on 11/10/2022 11:48:32

Hi All,

I acquired a old Stuart 10V and on inspecting it in preparation to run I realised this was not likely to happen due to the very poor workmanship.

I hope to show you all the issues and what I done to rectify the faulty parts, I will welcome advice from you all during the rebuild.

there will be decisions I will have to make in the early stages whether to work in imperial or metric although I think there will be a bit of a mix in the dimensioning to allow me to use available material.

we will see how it goes.

Hopper and Jason,

Thanks for the links, on looking into what I have found up to now I think the best way to go is by purchasing the book as I believe there will be more information and any size errors should be noted in the book also it's cheaper lol.

Now all I have to do is identify and purchase replacement material for the many duff parts, should be fun.

I might keep a log of it all on here my errors in the rebuild might just save someone else.

Jim

Hi,

I have inherited a Stuart 10V unfortunately it is in a bit of a sorry state due to badly made parts etc.

I would like to refurbish this engine and remake a number of the parts correctly including the plugging of wrongly drilled holes.

In order to proceed, I will require drawings of the parts so that I can know the correct dimensions.

Does anyone know where I can source these plans, recommend a book or where I can aquire a scanned copy just something to give me all the correct dimensions?

Edited By Jim K on 13/11/2009 03:17:41

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