This engine definitely isn’t giving up it’s secrets easily. I’ve spent hours tonight trying to get the two halves of the crankcase apart and finally succeeded. The problem is that all of the bolts are badly wasted away and are in such inaccessible positions that you can’t get any tools near them to remove them. In the end I had to resort to grinding part of each one’s nut away so that I could split the nut and gently tap the bolt out of it’s hole. That worked for four of them, but there are six in all and I had to drill one bolt out and chop the other one piecemeal.
I was asked today what was on the reverse side of the flywheel- nothing, but here’s the photo.
