Cleaning up a Baja Bug engine

I remember that thread Kari, nice clean up on a colorful engine. Mine made it onto my "Enya tree" presently the only non-Enya to do so.  Placed it beside an Enya .09 Car/Helo engine.



And watertrucker, no, I didn't remove the starter mechanism.  It didn't look as nasty as the others I had taken apart and frankly I didn't want to deal with those little pauls on the eccentric.  I just removed the glow head and loosened the case screws and boiled it like that.  I didn't try to pull the starter prior to boiling.  But after the boil I removed the case, immersed it in full strength Simple Green then pulled the starter, then into hot water rinse again operating the starter, blew out with compressed air, then into clean 91% alcohol pulling the starter,more compressed air then a liberal spray of RemOil in all openings.  Smooth as silk now, but the exterior needs some polish.

I have this one coming for Lieven and will ship it as soon as it arrives.









He should have fun cleaning it up.  I just hope the starter mechanism works.  

Bob

getback wrote:  Turned out good Bob , Yeah chunk the back plate in some Hobbies #9 for 1/2 hr. scrub with brush  alh. rinse you may want to replace the stiff intake hose and chuck the tank up in the drill 800 grit is good sander and replace parts as needed to run !! I have one that
s pretty but haven't ran it ...... cant believe U got some more Snow!!   70 here tomorrow

Snow gone this morning Eric and maybe 50 degrees today.  We sit at about 1400 feet above sea level and temps go down as elevation goes up. This Florida boy is used to 25' ASL.

I will try the Hoppees and try to clean that case up, the rest of it looks pretty good.

Bob.

Darned if these car engines don't multiply.

Seems that during the night Mrs. Enya and Mr. Cox got together and brought forth these hybrid twins, one with a birthmark.



Bob