1932 Stutz DV-32 Engine disassembly

That poor engine, at least it finally made it to the correct shop to be built properly!

I guess it must add to the satisfaction of delivering a perfectly rebuilt motor when you start with something so knackered.

Awesome channel Mark. Keep them coming.

I feel the pain! I've shook my head many times over the years when I opened an engine, transmission, or wire repair on tractors of all ages.

From the looks of that, you got it just in time. What a mess. I'm sure you'll have it humming away happily before long, I hope there aren't too many issues with it.

i am a retired professional transmission rebuilder. over the decades and 1000s of transmissions i have saw many that have been butchered!

I've been to the old Stutz manufacturing plant. The majority of the plant has been turned into office spaces. At the time I was there, they had a few of the cars on display through out the building(s). Beautiful cars with some that had innovations ahead of the big 3. Stutz was headed for bankruptcy, but prior to filing, he had manufactured several cars and hid them away within the plant. Stutz's idea was after bankruptcy, he would pull out the cars as if they had just came off the assembly line. Stutz was unable to implement his plan due to his passing soon after filing for bankruptcy. New owners of the plant found the cars, investigating a major discrepancy between the blueprinted floor space and the physical floor space.These cars were found stowed away in halls and hallways behind false walls.

Great Video. The right shop has it now

A friend of Dads had a Stutz ,just the same,DV32 1932. . It was only 30 years old but had already had a rebuilt engine. Sometimes well meaning folks get in over their head or budget. 😁😁 But a lot can happen to a car over 8 decades.

glad it has reached restore cars, in desperate need of a lot of tlc

Shows how robust these old engines are. A more modern one treated like that would have scattered itself all over the ground.

Well, it is you working on this old cars! 👍😅 Greetings from Norway. 🇳🇴

No doubt this shop “Road less traveled “most likely is the best in this field nothing but a pro with the right people and equipment . I would love to hear more about the cost of doing things right but I’m sure if you have to ask you can’t afford it. I can’t see any of these rebuilds being under 50 k and some as high as 300k .

That type of work is everywhere. Not just old cars. You have to keep in mind that, the guy who did that is long gone, and I'm going to guess that the owner likely has changed hands also. SO, at the time this work was being done, neither owner or mechanic really cared. Modern cars get abused like that all the time. Its a crime to see this on old cars.

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a lot can happen in 91 years..

I call it the "poverty valley". Before cars are old enough for people to appreciate them an old used car is not worth fixing right. People with no money acquire them and make "pragmatic" repairs. I bet that grampa work was done by a friend of a friend who knew "a bunch" about old cars back in the '50s. Better that someone at least got it running than to let it rust away unrepaired in a field until nothing was left.

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I'm wondering how bad the head must be after seeing this abuse. Some of the rods looked wrong for the engine. A mag flux of the engine is going to showing cracks all over the place, and I hope for the customer sake I'm dead wrong.

Don't go with the shade tree owner mechanic, men and boys use to overhaul engines. In 1960 I help a high school friend overhaul a Buick straight eight engine, with the advice and few borrowed tools from the local garage mechanic. He used it to commute to college and after 25,000 miles on it, he traded it in for a newer car.