Now since the frame work is done, we looked at the engine.
The engine, a flat head Tecumseh is in good condition, minimal ridge at the top of the cylinder and the valves functioned just fine and butt up against the seats well. We removed all the carbon we could from the head and ‘short block’ and just put them back together using the still-good-condition head gasket.
We also rebuilt the transmission which is much like the modern Ford Freestyle transmission except this just has one variable-diameter pulley.
The intake tube had to be remade. It was a pair of aluminum tubes with mounting plates on each end and a hose joining them (another modification). With the new angle of the engine, it would have sat is such a way that the carb would have hit the frame and would have sat at an angle.
So we found some tubing that slid over the existing intake tubes, heated it up to bending it so the carb sat at the correct angle, and used epoxy to seal it and keep the mounting plates aligned on the engine and carb.
He is a picture of the result (needs cosmetic work).
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