SUPER TIGER G19 DIESEL RESTORATION.

 This classic Italian gentlemen was sent in to us by our good friend Stefano Russo for a full restoration back to like new condition.

Here's the engine as he arrived in our E.D unit suffering some serious wheezing and coughing and not feeling to well at all.

O.K. lets get him stripped down and put through the bath and see what's needed to bring him back to life.

Here we have the engine fully dismantled and ready to start the big cleanup.

First thing to do is to clean and prepare the 2 main crankcase units so they are ready to have the other parts refitted as they get sorted.

Here's the crankcase main body and front housing all done.

Next up is the venturi insert and the needle valve assembly.

And all nicely cleaned up and reassembled onto the front housing.

 

 

The original crankshaft bearings were not reusable so we have gone ahead and replaced them.

Here's the crankshaft all cleaned and ready to be reassembled into the rest of the front housing.

And refitted with the new bearings, pro driver and washer etc .........

Next up is to clean up the main case rear plug and the conrod ready for the main internals to be started on sorting.

Now we'll get on with cleaning the rest of the parts that will be reused on the engine, cylinder head, bolts etc.

Cylinder head and compression screw all done.

Here we have the piston and cylinder liner assembly all cleaned and ready for inspection. We have noticed a fair amount of wear in the bore so we'll start with reboring the liner the minimum amount to try and reuse the original piston, which is ringed, OH joy, who decided to make a ringed piston diesel for goodness sake??

Next step is to make the lapping tooling to relapp the liner and make sure we can reuse the piston and only make rings, or whether we'll need to make the blooming shebang.