Been around Detroits my whole life and this is the first time I have had a blower issue. When my slasher burned a year ago I directed the fire hose on the nearly new 3-53 to try to save at least the engine. Yesterday I started to resurrect it to install in my Pettibone Super Six in which the transplanted Fiat is fading fast. I discovered that the fire hose got water into the blower intake, intake hose had a hole burned in it, and after setting over the winter and a number of freeze thaw cycles the blower turns very hard. I can not turn it by hand but while on the engine it turned when I was turning the engine over with a 42" long wrench on the clutch output. The engine spins fine with it off the engine. Anybody got one laying around they would sell or any info on how reliable it would be to rebuild this one if possible. Our local Detroit shop whom still rebuilds 2 stroke Detroits told me that the bottom vane is certainly warped or cracked if it had water in it over winter. It is a right side mount as looking from the flywheel end. The mechanic at the shop also told me that they also had two different helicol gears styles over the years. Both helicol but one has more twist in the teeth than the other. I fould one on e-bay but the pictures show the gears to be opposite from what mine has. Are these gears simply interchangeable with mine to make it work? I assume it was a left hand mount with the reversed gears but not for sure. Other than the blower and a partially melted seconary fuel filter mount, and cooked alternator, both of which I have spares, everything looks and appears to be OK. Any advice or leads is appreciated.
3-53 Detroit blower issues
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