Re: Re: 1955 Traction 11B “Barn Find” Project

I had a second go at installing the pistons. This time I used a trick from an oldie French guy who said toe use some cutting paste (same as you use on the valves/seats) to mate up the edges of the piston sleeves with the crankcase. This seemed to work quite well. But on measuring the height above the top surface I am still a bit low so I have ordered some thicker gaskets – my current ones that came with the gasket kit are 0.02 so I have some 0.07 on order. So this job will have to wait….. again. 😯

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Onto my oil pump – now this was disgusting as it had sat in a mixture of oil and water for the past 46 years. Hence the filter mesh is rusted out and the upper filter hood and upper cover are corroded so have ordered new. The rest of the pump looks in good order so I stripped cleaned and rebuilt with new gaskets.

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